Here's an essay i wrote in 6th grade for the book FOUR PERFECT PEBBLES: (A/N- could some one tell me how to underline/put in bold, or put in italics?)

Dumb. Dense, stupid, idiotic, uneducated, ignorant, dim, thickheaded, brainless, obtuse, unintelligent. Would you call a possible genius dumb? People believed that Albert Einstein was dumb; ha, he showed them! Marion, a thirteen year old, may be in the fourth grade, among nine year olds, but she is not slow. "Then why is she only in elementary school?" you ask, "Was she held back?" No! She endured one of the most atrocious events in the world, the Holocaust. For the years of school she missed, she was learning not how to add, or spell, but to survive. So you say, she lived to tell the tale, what does that prove? Thirteen million people died! What else? Let's see. Marion was just learning English (, which is why she was moved back in the first place). In fact, she knew three other languages, two of which she learned in the past three years of her life. Those languages included Dutch, Hebrew, and German. More? Marion excelled at math and European geography. The next year, she was moved into junior high with other children of her age. She graduated with honors. Could a dim-witted person do that? I think not! She was even able to hold a job! I believe that, if anyone was stupid, it would have been Hitler, the man who started the whole war, anyway!