A Hundred Years Ago

A Hundred Years Ago is an essay that Mr. Huff, the history teacher at Westmore Middle School, assigned for both Rodrick Heffley and Greg Heffley. When the power goes out at the Heffley residence, Rodrick sells the paper he wrote in middle school for $20,000 in Mom Bucks. Unfortunately, Rodrick had failed that assignment: thus, Greg failed as well.

Here is the poem:

Sometimes I sit and wonder

About stuff I don't know

Like what the heck the earth was like

A hundred years ago.

Did cavemen ride on dinosaurs?

Did flowers even grow?

Well we could guess but that was back

A hundred years ago.

I wish they built a time machine

And picked me up to go

To check out what the scene was like

A hundred years ago.

Did giant spiders rule the earth?

Were deserts filled with snow?

I wonder what the story was

A hundred years ago.