It was her giggling(咯咯的笑)that drew my attention. Note taking really wasn’t all that funny.
Walking over to the offender, I asked for the
. Frozen, she refused to give it to me. I waited, all attention in the classroom on the quiet
between teacher and student. When she finally
it over, she whispered, “Okay, but I didn’t draw it.”
It was a hand-drawn
of me, teeth blackened and the words “I’m stupid” coming out of my mouth.
I managed to fold it up calmly. My mind,
, was working angrily as I struggled not to
. I figured I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture. It would do them some
to teach them a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
Thankfully, I was able to keep myself
.
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture. They were all silent as I told them how
this was for me. I told them there must be a reason
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
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
of you.” But two notes, from the girls who I
were behind the picture, had a list of issues. I was too
, too strict…
Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of
my students, I had begun commanding them to
. Where I thought I was driving them to success, I was
driving them away.
I had some apologies to make. But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me a card. The one
by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke. The one from the girls asked for
.
This was a lesson for both the kids and me. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the
.
| 小题1: | | A．note | B．advice | C．reason | D．help |
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| 小题2: | | A．battle | B．competition | C．argument | D．conversation |
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| 小题3: | | A．took | B．thought | C．turned | D．handed |
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| 小题4: | | A．statue | B．graph | C．picture | D．poster |
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| 小题5: | | A．otherwise | B．however | C．therefore | D．besides |
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| 小题6: | | A．leave | B．cry | C．explain | D．argue |
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| 小题7: | | A．good | B．harm | C．favor | D．punishment |
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| 小题8: | | A．amused | B．controlled | C．uninterested | D．relaxed |
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| 小题9: | | A．meaningful | B．forgetful | C．regretful | D．hurtful |
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| 小题10: | | A．aside | B．above | C．beneath | D．behind |
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| 小题11: | | A．wrote | B．finished | C．read | D．collected |
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| 小题12: | | A．proud | B．fond | C．afraid | D．ashamed |
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| 小题13: | | A．figured | B．promised | C．concluded | D．saw |
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| 小题14: | | A．talkative | B．mean | C．clumsy | D．considerate |
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| 小题15: | | A．forcing | B．encouraging | C．comforting | D．teaching |
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| 小题16: | | A．appreciate | B．apologize | C．compromise | D．achieve |
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| 小题17: | | A．actually | B．normally | C．immediately | D．generally |
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| 小题18: | | A．decorated | B．offered | C．signed | D．bought |
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| 小题19: | | A．thankfulness | B．forgiveness | C．compensation | D．communication |
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| 小题20: | | A．friendship | B．education | C．knowledge | D．future |
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