When I was in about 1st or 2nd grade, I saw a history book for the first time. As we would read them in class, I'd think to myself "Wow, someone actually had to sit there with a blank book, pen ready, all through out time and writting down anything interesting that happened!" That same year we learned about the Magna Carta...as we read that, I thought "That had to be really annoying to write down a chapter about some King signing papers...it must have been a boring year."
Then I remember comming home upset one day after learning about the Civil War because I had the idea that the book-writer kept dying and someone else would have to take his place in order to get it into history.
Later I was told that history books were written by people who studied the past...but then I thought to myself "I was right! Someone did have to sit there and write about importaint things when they happened in order to create the books now."
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha