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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 the teacher and the student. When she finally
__
3__ it over she whispered, "Okay, but I didn't draw it."
It was a handdrawn __
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 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 |