Graf #2 Worst Teacher
I never really had any horrible teachers. They all treated me with respect and kindness. I did however have a teacher with a horrible method of teaching.
The year was 1993. The class was American History. The teacher, well I won’t mention names, but he was tall with white hair and had to most boring, lull you to sleep, speaking voice. I knew I was in trouble the very first day of class.
On the first day of class the teacher immediately told us to open our text books(circa 1970’s) and the agony of American History began. The teacher proceeded to read directly from the text book verbatim! For 80 minutes, three times a week he read on in his long, drawn out, sleep inducing voice.
I can remember more than once nodding off out of sheer boredom only to feel a gentle hand on my shoulder from the teacher as he passed by my desk with his book, never taking his eyes off the text he was reading.
Needless to say, I barely passed American History. I was never so happy to get out of a class in all my life. The next year The History teacher retired, and I was sad to see him go, he was very nice after all.
I just had to add this little tidbit to my graf. I showed this to my mother to get her opinion on it. The funny thing is, she also had this same teacher for American History when she was in high school. She laughed and shook her head as she read what I wrote. Then she looked at me and said, “ I remember him, he was the most boring teacher I ever had. I used to do my shorthand homework or sleep in his class while he read from his book to us.” This teacher had kept his same teaching style for more than seventeen years!
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2 comments:
Hey Misty--nice stuff; I can picture this guy. There's something sad about a teacher reading a text aloud--and annoying too. YOu make it very clear.
But look for material that makes this longer without adding anything to what you already tell us: places you've repeated or said almost the same thing or said something two ways. Do you see some of that?
Hey Misty, it's hard to remember how much you've cut and improved without the original, but this does read pretty well, and I like the addition of teh shorthand homework in the last graf. That makes it so real-sounding (that is new, right?)
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