6 Fourth Grade Is Scary

6 Fourth Grade Is Scary "Okay, everybody," said Mr. Cooper, "take out a pencil." Ugh. That meant it was time for writing. I hate writing.* "I'm passing out..." said Mr. Cooper. "He's passing out!" I shouted. "Call an ambulance!" "...pieces of paper. So each of you

“好了，同学们，”库珀先生说，“拿出一支铅笔。” 啊。这意味着是时候写作了。 我讨厌写作。“我要晕过去了……” 库珀先生说。“他晕过去了！”我叫道。 “叫救护车！”“…几张纸。 所以你们每个人

can write an essay." Ugh! Writing essays is mega-boring. Mr. Cooper told us to write about what we were planning to do over summer vacation. "I'm going to sleepaway camp!" Andrea said excitedly. "Me too!" said Emily, who does everything Andrea does. Ryan said his family would be going to the beach. Michael said his cousins were coming to visit. Alexia said she would be going to Puerto Rico. Everybody started writing. I didn't know what to write. How should I know what I'm going to do over summer vacation? It wasn't even summer yet. I sat there for a million hundred minutes trying to think of something to write. "Five more minutes," said Mr. Cooper. Those five minutes felt like an hour. Andrea filled two sheets of paper, of

能写一篇文章。”啊!写论文很无聊。 库珀先生要我们写暑假计划做什么。 “我要去露营了！”安德烈兴奋地说。 “我也是！”艾米丽说，她和安德里亚一样。 瑞恩说他的家人会去海滩。 迈克尔说他的表兄妹要来拜访。 亚历克西亚说她要去波多黎各。 每个人都开始写作。 我不知道该写什么。 我怎么知道我暑假要做什么？ 那时还不是夏天。 我在那里坐了无数分钟，想写点什么。 “还有五分钟，”库珀先生说。 那五分钟感觉就像一个小时。 安德里亚填了两张纸

course. Finally, Mr. Cooper picked up our papers. "What's wrong, A.J.?" he asked as he looked at mine. "There's nothing on your paper." "That's because I'm planning to do nothing over the summer," I told him. "So that's what I wrote. Nothing." Everybody laughed even though I didn't say anything funny. That's when an announcement came over the loudspeaker. "Mr. Cooper, please call the front office."

课程。最后，库珀先生拿起了我们的文件。 “怎么了，A.J.?”他看着我的眼睛问道。 “你的纸上什么也没有。” “那是因为我打算整个夏天什么都不做，”我告诉他。 这就是我写的。没什么。” 大家都笑了，尽管我没说什么好笑的话。 就在这时，喇叭里传来了通告。 “库珀先生，请给前台打电话。”

Mr. Cooper picked up the phone. While he was on his call, the rest of us whispered to each other. "I hear we're going to get lockers in fourth grade," whispered Alexia. "So we'll have to memorize our locker combination." "I hear," whispered Neil, "that if you forget your locker combination the teacher locks you up in your locker all night."

库珀先生拿起电话。 当他打电话的时候，我们其他人互相窃窃私语。 “我听说我们四年级就要有储物柜了。”阿丽克西娅小声说。 “所以我们得记住储物柜的密码。” “我听说，”尼尔低声说，“如果你忘记了储物柜密码，老师会把你锁在储物柜里一整夜。”

"Stop trying to scare Emily," whispered Andrea. "I'm scared," whispered Emily. "I hear," whispered Ryan, "that in fourth grade we're going to get five hours of homework each night." "I hear," whispered Michael, "they make fourth graders do math with letters instead of numbers." "What?" I whispered. "That's crazy. You can't add up letters." "It's called algebra," whispered Andrea. "I'm taking an algebra class after school." Andrea takes classes in everything after school. If they gave classes in how to tie your shoes, Andrea would take that class so she could get better at it. "I hear," whispered Neil, "in fourth grade we have to bring toothpaste to school with us." "I hear," whispered Alexia, "the fifth graders are going to shoot spitballs at us." "I hear," I whispered, "that they're

“别吓唬艾米丽了，”安德里亚低声说。 “我很害怕，”爱米丽小声说。 “我听说，”瑞恩小声说，“四年级的时候我们每晚要做五个小时的家庭作业。” “我听说，”迈克尔小声说，“他们让四年级的学生用字母而不是数字做数学题。” “什么?”我低声说。“这太疯狂了。 你不能把字母加起来。” “这叫代数，”安德烈低声说。 “放学后我要上代数课。” 安德里亚放学后要上各种课程。 如果他们开设了如何系鞋带的课程，安德里亚就会去上这门课，这样她就能做得更好。 “我听说，”尼尔小声说，“四年级的时候，我们必须随身带牙膏到学校。” “我听说，”亚历克西娅小声说，“五年级的学生要朝我们扔纸团。” “我听说，”我低声说，“他们是

going to shoot bowling balls at us. With catapults." Actually, I've never heard that fifth graders shoot bowling balls at fourth graders with catapults. I just made that up to scare Emily. "I'm scared," whispered Emily. Mr. Cooper hung up the phone. "I have an announcement to make," he said. "The front office just told me the name of the third-grade valedictorian." Valedic... WHAT? "What's that?" I asked. "It sounds like some disease." "The valedictorian," said Mr. Cooper,

要朝我们扔保龄球。 弹弩。”事实上，我从来没听说过五年级学生用弹弓在四年级学生面前打保龄球。 我编出来吓唬艾米丽的。 “我很害怕，”爱米丽小声说。 库珀先生挂了电话。 “我要宣布一件事，”他说。 “前台刚告诉我三年级致告别辞的学生的名字。” Valedic……怎么啦？“那是什么?”我问。 “听起来像是某种疾病。” “致告别辞的代表，”库珀先生说，