Level 1 :: Week 21
The Hare was once boasting of his speed
before the other animals. "I have never yet been
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beaten. I challenge any one here to race with
me."
The Tortoise said quietly, "I accept your
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challenge."
"That is a good joke," said the Hare; "I could
dance round you all the way."
"Keep your boasting till you've won,"
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answered the Tortoise.
So a course was fixed and a start was made.
The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but
soon stopped and, to show his contempt for the
Tortoise, lay down to have a nap. The Tortoise
plodded on and plodded on, and when the Hare
awoke from his nap, he saw the Tortoise just
near the winning-post and could not run up in
time to save the race.
Then the Tortoise said: "Slow but steady
progress wins the race."
--The Tortoise and the Hare
by Aesop
Keyboarding skills are the most important part of the Elementary
School Computer curriculum. This homework, which should take 10-15
minutes per day, is designed to improve the students typing skills. Please
complete the following:
Type the complete passage of whichever Level you choose. (If you are
not able to complete the passage in 10-15 minutes move down one level until your skill improves)
Use correct fingering and posture. Speed will come if you practice correct technique.
Have your parent/guardian sign that you have completed keyboarding
3 times per week
PARENTS please be sure your student is using CORRECT FINGERING!
Some students are getting very proficient in “hunting and pecking”. Despite my best efforts this will be a difficult habit to break. If you have
concerns or questions feel free to contact me [email protected]
Level 2 :: Week 21
Once there was a very cunning leprechaun.
Ever since he was a little leprechaun, he
dreamed of having a coat made out of gryphon
Level 3 :: Week 21
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive,
were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank
you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to
be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because
feathers. But he was not young, but a little old.
they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.
So he set off to go catch AJ, the gryphon, for his
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings,
feathers!!
which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any
But AJ was listening in on the leprechaun talk
and was ready. The leprechaun made a fake
neck, although he did have a very large mustache.
Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice
the ususal amount of neck, which came in very useful as
trap. It had a fish smothered with glue for the
she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences,
gryphon to try and eat.
spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son
Poor AJ smelled the fish and came by the
called Dudley, and in their opinion there was no finer boy
leprechaun’s trap. He bit into the fish and his
beak was stuck. Then the leprechaun came out
anywhere.
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also
had a secret. And their greatest fear was that somebody
of a cave and said, "I have finally caught you!" (I
would discover it. They didn’t think they could bear it if
told you the leprechaun was cunning.)
anyone found out abou the Potters.
The leprechaun brought AJ into the cave.
Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t
Right before the leprechaun was about to pluck
the first feather from AJ the gryphon, AJ’s
met for several years in fact. Mrs. Dursley pretended she
didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing
husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to
friend the dragon burst in!
be.
The dragon had seen AJ with his beak stuck
The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors
to the dead fish. And then he saw the
would say if the Potters arrived on the street. The Dursleys
leprechaun come out of the cave and say, "I have
knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had
finally caught you."
never even seen him. They boy was another good reason
for keeping the Potters away. They didn’t want Dudley
The dragon squished the leprechaun and the
mixing with a child like that.
leprechaun was never heard from again.
— from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,
--The Gryphon, by Mark Abbott
by J.K. Rowling