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The trove of mementos that make up this "Time Capsule" series came to me courtesy of my brother. When he showed me this he said I had written some pretty good poetry for a kid.
With a bit of searching I was able to track down the source of these little ditties. It seems I was only being asked to copy from a book of poems by a woman named Aileen Fisher. As the pages are titled Spelling and Writing I would guess the criteria were different for each exercise.
I don't know if I was also graded on quality of bug drawings but I have to say this is pretty good work.
Ms. Fisher was a much beloved author of poems and stories for children. In the 1930's she moved out west to live in a log cabin with her fellow author Olive Rabe. Back then nobody made a fuss about this sort of thing. Now I fear school children - who properly remain primarily interested in bugs and dinosaurs - would be expected to celebrate it.
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