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It was her giggling that drew my attention.Note taking really wasn't all that funny.
Walking over to the offender, I asked for the__
1__.Frozen, she refused to give it to me.I waited, all
attention in the classroom on the quiet__
2__between teacher and student.When she finally__
3__it over she whispered, "Okay, but I didn't draw it."
It was a hand-drawn__
4__of me, teeth blackened and the words "I'm stupid" coming out of my mouth.
I managed to fold it up calmly.My mind,__
5__, was working angrily as I struggled not to__
6__.I figured I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture.It would do them some__
7__to teach them a
lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
Thankfully, I was able to keep myself__
8__.
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture.They were all silent as I told them how__
9__this was for me.I told them there must be a reason__
10__and now was their chance to
write down anything they needed to tell me.Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of the
classroom.
As I__
11__the notes later, many of them said something like, "I've got nothing against you," or "I'm sorry you were hurt." Some kids said, "We're__
12__of you." But two notes, from the girls who I__
13__were
behind the picture, had a list of issues.I was too__
14__, too strict…
Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of__
15__my students, I had
begun commanding them to__
16__.Where I thought I was driving them to success I was__
17__driving them away.
I had some apologizing to do.But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me
a card.The one__
18__by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke.The one from the girls
asked for__
19__.
This was a lesson for both the kids and me.Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the__
20__.
( )1. A.note ( )2. A.battle ( )3. A.took ( )4. A.statue ( )5. A.otherwise ( )6. A.leave ( )7. A.good ( )8. A.amused ( )9. A.meaningful ( )10. A.aside ( )11. A.wrote ( )12. A.proud ( )13. A.figured ( )14. A.talkative ( )15. A.forcing ( )16. A.appreciate ( )17. A.actually ( )18. A.decorated ( )19. A.thankfulness ( )20. A.friendship |
B. advice B. competition B. thought B. graph B. however B. cry B. harm B. controlled B. forgetful B. above B. finished B. fond B. promised B. mean B. encouraging B. apologize B. normally B. offered B. forgiveness B. education |
C. reason C. argument C. turned C. picture C. therefore C. explain C. favor C. uninterested C. regretful C. beneath C. read C. afraid C. concluded C. clumsy C. comforting C. compromise C. immediately C. signed C. compensation C. knowledge |
D. help D. conversation D. handed D. poster D. besides D. argue D. punishment D. relaxed D. hurtful D. behind D. collected D. ashamed D. confirmed D. considerate D. teaching D. achieve D. generally D. bought D. communication D. future |