Mrs. Stephanie Harper, Ed.D. Library Media Specialist sharper@jpsms.org

“Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong”

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attem