兒子的八股文

今晚兒子讓我把他剛寫的Science Essay打印出來。我拿來一看，說，“不行，最少要寫滿一頁。” 兒子還嘴，“老師隻讓寫五段，而且班裏還有寫半頁的”。我說，“咱隻能跟好的比。去，再加上幾個句子。” 兒子一看我這麽堅決，就拿走他的notebook，又勉強加了幾句湊成了一頁。

Orcas

Did you know that orcas, or killer whales can grow up to be 21-23 feet long? This essay will tell you three facts about orcas. They are 1) Killer whales are about 7 meters long, 2) Orcas in the wild live about 60-70 years unless hunted down and killed, and 3) Killer whales live all over the world’s oceans.

A full grown orca can be 7 meters long or 21-23 feet long when full grown. Though they are about 4 times as tall as the average human adult, they are only half the size of the the biggest of the toothed whales. The sperm whale, which is about 52 feet long, is twice the size of the orca. But toothed whales are smaller than baleen whales, which are the biggest whales of the two groups.

Orcas in the wild could live 60-70 years, but in captivity, they only live about 9 years, because tricks affect the killer whale’s brain, and they tend to live shorter. However, seaworld claims that orcas in their aquarium live as long as their cousins in the wild.

Killer whales are distributed all over the world’s oceans, and they are especially found in antarctic waters, and they live there because orcas have thick blubber to survive in the freezing depths of the waters. They are easily seen because they are black and white, which stands out quite a lot.

The facts about orcas were: 1) Orcas are about 7 meters long, 2) They live 60-70 years in the wild, and 3) They live all over the world’s oceans. For more information go to

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale

已經在給他找輔導他寫作的老師了。他寫得很快，就是幹巴巴，沒血沒肉的。今天他還跟我說，媽，現在好像我在班裏什麽都是最好的除了英文。不過，我的拚寫，可是班裏的第三名。他還說，隻要課間有下chess，他不費力就把他們都贏了。連玩魔方都沒人能跟他比。看來當雞頭也真不錯，起碼自信心滿滿的。放假前的一天，孩子放學回來看上去很不開心的樣子。我問，怎麽了？他說，今天他在初中上數學課的時候，把他學校那邊競選學生會的活動給錯過了。隻能再等一年了。Wow，這個我是真沒想到，他還想當領導。