Teacher Creature
"Sit down. Stop talking. Throw your gum away." This is the way my high school algebra teacher began each day. Mrs. Holmes was her name, and being mean was her game. All of my peers had warned about this particular teacher. Strictness was not her only trademark, she was also known to have some bizarre--no, obnoxious--personal habits. Indeed, during the course of my senior year, I began to consider Mrs. Holmes a teacher-creature. (Method #6 - quotation; Method #10 - "dialogue") Mrs. Holmes's daily agenda was altogether disconcerting. She was extremely concerned with punctuality. Anyone late to her class received a public reprimand. "If you aren't in your seat when the bell rings," she'd tell us at least five times each week, "I will mark you absent." One day I happened to be sharpening my pencil when the shrill sound of the bell rang out. She demanded that since I wasn't in my chair when the period began, I was tardy. Talking was another pet peeve of hers. While taking a test one day, I asked
They caught my attention because it looked as if there were about then little blood spots where she had nicked herself shaving. What ever happened, I asked myself, to cause her to evolve into a teacher-creature. · Use a variety of sentences, especially complex sentences. the person behind me for some paper. The sandals were supposed to have little rhinestones on the side, but they had fallen off; little holes were in the spots where the rhinestones were supposed to have been. The most disgusting of her habits was picking her nose. I wondered about her childhood, her youth, and about her four years in college. )Be sure that your outline has three levels. The last article of clothing that I must mention is the brown sandals that Mrs. Her hair didn't seem to have been washed in a year. Holmes yell at me; she also assigned me two deten- Simpson 2tion periods. When the class were busy with a test, I'd often look up and see her finger up her nose. Begin each body or discussion paragraph with a topic sentence.
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