[color=#ff40ff]And now for the DRAMATIC CONCLUSION to my last blog. So when fourth period was ready to start, I asked the teacher where she got her little "Life in the 1500's" fact sheet. When I asked her this, she paused for a bit and said it came from a textbook. One look at that sheet, and you know it's not from a textbook. Each bullet point was written in a different "creative" font like Jokerman or Comic Sans. There's also no page number or actual layout, and looks like something she probably whipped up in MS Word. Anyway, I continue talking to the teacher. I tell her that I found a website that reviews an article very similar to the fact sheet she presented us. I showed her a printed copy of the Snopes page, and she read a little bit of it. She was surprised to see that many of the things from her "textbook" was wrong. She didn't admit that she was teaching the students false information, but insisted that "the textbook" made a bunch of errors. During the lecture today, she mentioned that in the next class we'd go over the sheet again and she'd explain the origins of some of the things more in depth. So yay, my classmates are going to be a little bit more educated. People shouldn't learn history from chain e-mails. :P[/color]
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