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Fourth graders from around South Dakota have been working hard writing essays
about Laura Ingalls Wilder and what her life was like for an essay
contest we sponsored.
Elizabeth, a fourth-grader at Grandview Elemntary School in Rapid City
is the winner of our Essay Contest. Her prize includes free admission
for her class and a big basket of fun stuff.
Her essay is as follows:
Laura
had a very hard life compared to mine. Even so, I can make a few
connections. I have loyal friends and a trusting family. I
still go to school, but not in a one-room schoolhouse.
One big difference is the difficulties of life, related to what happned
to Laura when she was a younger child. Her brother died at the
age of 8 months. It was not much later that her sister became
blind with scarlet fever. I have not experienced this type of
tragedy, but I’m sure it would be very painful.
Some differences are just from changing times. During hard
winters, the Ingalls family huddled by a wood stove. Today, we
just turn on a furnace. Laura’s family almost ran out of
food during winters. Today we just go to the store.
Another difference is our clothes. Back in Laura’s era, all
the girls wore dresses. Girls today can wear shorts, jeans,
skirts and dresses. Along with clothes are shoes. Laura and
girls of her era wore boots. We girls today wear boots, tennis
shoes and sandals.
Our lives may be totally different, but I think that all girls have a
little prairie girl just waiting to come out.
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