That is excellent penmanship, especially considering that all lower case lettering. As an draftsman, lettering was taught as a manual skill, but all upper case only, using a parallel bar and triangle for all vertical strokes. The above is really well done - even the pressure on the lead is consistent.
My drafting teacher had us do both upper and lower case. Did several Semesters of drafting, and in the last year we were permitted to do our lettering in a style we developed, or from a short list of examples - yet if we had one letter that was inconsistent with the style, the entire project was marked as a fail.
Yes, the good sisters were kinda one way about that. And in keeping with another hot button of the women of the cloth, Paul above mentioned "printing". If it is written with your hand it is handwriting. Printing is done by a machine.
One of my Gsons just turned 13 and we bought him a present and a card. I was appalled when he handed the card to his mother because he "doesn't read longhand". Come to find out they're not even teaching it at his school here in Cali.
That would have gotten me into NASA.
ReplyDeleteAmong the many things I would change is my penmanship. My hand and my language just do not connect well.
ReplyDeleteI dont know man, by third grade we had to do cursive and I'd have had to sit there at recess and re-do it all.
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That is excellent penmanship, especially considering that all lower case lettering. As an draftsman, lettering was taught as a manual skill, but all upper case only, using a parallel bar and triangle for all vertical strokes. The above is really well done - even the pressure on the lead is consistent.
ReplyDeleteMy drafting teacher had us do both upper and lower case. Did several Semesters of drafting, and in the last year we were permitted to do our lettering in a style we developed, or from a short list of examples - yet if we had one letter that was inconsistent with the style, the entire project was marked as a fail.
DeleteTo a lot of kids today this scribing is hieroglyphics
ReplyDeleteI take it your 3rd grade teacher was tough. She never make it in today's public school system.
ReplyDeleteMrs Johnson was both tough and mean. The back of my head still hurts from all the times she whacked it with a ruler.
DeleteI wonder what the back of Mr. Johnson's head looked like.
DeleteYeah. I could never be that neat. And by thrid grade we had cursive down and went to printing if the teacher could not decode cursive.
ReplyDeleteI can tell an older person who went to Catholic school by looking at their handwriting.
ReplyDeleteYes, the good sisters were kinda one way about that.
DeleteAnd in keeping with another hot button of the women of the cloth, Paul above mentioned "printing".
If it is written with your hand it is handwriting.
Printing is done by a machine.
My second time in 3rd grade was easier than the first
ReplyDeleteOne of my Gsons just turned 13 and we bought him a present and a card. I was appalled when he handed the card to his mother because he "doesn't read longhand". Come to find out they're not even teaching it at his school here in Cali.
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