1. Don’t Know Much about Geography

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1 Don't Know Much about Geography My name is A.J. and I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about the Great Lakes. What makes the Great Lakes so great? That's what I want to know. If you ask me, lakes shouldn't brag. If they were really great, they wouldn't have to talk about how great they are all the time.

What about the other lakes? Don't they feel bad because they're not great? Is there a Not-So-Great Lake? Anyway, it was a perfectly normal Monday at Ella Mentry School. In other words, there was nothing normal about it. I hung up my coat in my cubby. That's when my teacher Mr. Cooper came flying into the room. He tripped over somebody's backpack and did a face-plant into the garbage can. "I'm okay!" he said as he took the can off his head. Then we pledged the allegiance and did Word of the Day. "Should we turn to page twenty-three in our math books?" asked Andrea Young, this annoying girl with curly brown hair. "No," said Mr. Cooper. "Are we going to do silent reading?" asked Andrea's crybaby friend, Emily. "No."

"Science?" asked Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "No." "Can we go home?" I asked. I figured it was worth a shot. "No," replied Mr. Cooper. "Today, we're going to do something different." Uh-oh. I didn't like the sound of that. Different is scary. You never know what's gonna happen. Different could be good, or it could be bad. "What are we going to do?" asked Michael, who never ties his shoes. "This morning," said Mr. Cooper, "we're going to see a slideshow." Noooooooooooooooo! Not a slideshow! Anything but a slideshow! Slideshows are super boring. I'd rather jump into a volcano wearing a pink tutu than watch a slideshow. "I'm going to show you pictures of my trip to Spain," said Mr. Cooper.

Noooooooooooooooo! Mr. Cooper went to Spain to visit his sister. We had a sub for a week while he was gone. He turned on his computer and plugged it into the smartboard. "Oh, you're going to like this," he told

us. "Spain was amazing. I was like a fish out of water." Huh? What did fish have to do with anything? "Here's me at the Royal Palace in Madrid," Mr. Cooper said when his first slide flashed on the screen. "Ooooh, it's beautiful!" said Andrea, who thinks everything is beautiful. I was already feeling drowsy. I felt my eyelids getting heavy. "Here's my sister at a church in Barcelona," said Mr. Cooper. I was fighting off sleep. "Here's a man playing guitar outside the walled city of Toledo," he continued. Zzzzzzzzz. "Here's my sister at a fruit market."