Zero
I love the frank way you speak to us and I love your methods of teaching and dressing yourself. I love your kindness and whole personality. I also love you for yourself. Tell us more about your own life like you did that time about your college. It makes you feel very human to us so we can be more like you. (I went down to size 15). I'm only misrable at home and never in English. That's why I have this new ambition to be an English Teacher. Can you tell me how you prepared your self for this career?
Your friend,
Vivian Paine
You have one of the best sense of humors I ever met. You made the lessons laughable.
Third Row
I don't like the way you dress, too loud for a teacher, you should tone it down, and a low marker.
Yr
The reason I like your English is you teach English which can be used in my life to make me somebody. You have arranged your English so that it seems more interesting and it doesn't seem like English though it is. You make likable things I don't like like reading. You teach perfectly and steadily, not too fast or too slow. And you always have time to listen to our side of the book. Can I have you again?
Jose Rodriguez
I know who cheated on the midterms and got away with it, also somebody else.
Guess Who
No matter what I do my mother keeps harping.
Doodlebug
I'm not in your class, but how about a date anyhow? I am a very congenial acquaintance. I am medium tall with dark hazel eyes, sort of chubby face and a little stout around the middle. I suppose you know me already!
Passer By
Although the English Midterms were extremely interesting, they were rather hard to do in my usual well manner. I therefore wish to thank you for giving me the opportunity of raising my mark with a Extra Credit Book Report which I hope you will enjoy reading.
Harry A. Kagan
(The Students Choice)
I'm not saying there's too much homework, but I won't say there's too little. But for you I'm glad to do it even double.
Frank Allen
I was going to drop out but no more. No teacher ever gave me the break you did when you told me I could make up my briliant (Ha-ha!) marks with a book report for extra credit which I will!
Lou Martin
This is the first class I enjoyed failing because of looking at you.
Not enuogh extra credit for washing the Board!
Disgusted
Will you marry me?
PART X
47. My Reading Life
Dear Miss Barrett,
I am hereby submitting a Book Report I wrote for extra credit. I hope you will raise my mark since I need to have it raised. In the past I have always usually had excellent marks in English.
Harry A. Kagan
(The Students Choice)
My Reading Life
My reading life has quite a variation and is more wider than the average student. I enjoy indulging in many types of great literature, both fiction and nonfiction books as well as others. Mr. Hemingway's works gave me a very favorable impression of Mr. Hemingway as a writer. I would recommend it to any one. One author I did not care for was Mr. Faulkner. I didn't get any enjoyment out of him. Another book I did not particularly enjoy was "War and Peace" by Mr. Tolstoy. It was much too long to read it and has too many characters with similiar names. I've also read quite a few other fiction novels that I won't mention here. I consider reading one of my most useful hobbies.
Miss Barett, You said we could put in your letter box Extra Credit reports on books we read outside of school and due to Midterms and horsing around I need that E. Credit! I demand you
give it to me! Ha-ha joke! But every little bit counts!
Lou Martin
Three Important Myth
by Lou Martin
1. There was once a boy and girl but their familys were always arguing so naturally these two children or people would meet each other on the sly. One day a bleeding lion came along. Horrorfied she ran away leaving her scarf! The lion played with it for a while and then went away. The boy came back and seeing the bleeding scarf taught that she was killed. Remosely he took his knife and his life! The girl saw her boy-friend was dead and she decided to kill her self! The 2 familys seeing their dear children dead realised how silly they were & became friends after learning a horrorful lesson. The same conflict appears in Shakespeer.
2. Pygmalian was a myth who was a sculpture. He was the type of man who didn't like women particulally but this story changes this. One day he made a statue of his wife-to-be and put in everything he wanted just so and when it was finished he wanted to marry her but since she wasn't alive he couldn't very well do so. What to do? Pray, of course, which he did to the Gss of love who made her alive! From this we get My Fair Lady and others.
3. Adonis was a handsome youth from Asia Miner and Venus was the Gss of love. She use to spend all her time going hunting with him and fishing and other sports. All the manly outlets of life! One day while Adonis went hunting a wild bore killed him and all the Gods pitied Venus so much they then allowed him to rise from the dead to dwell as her husband part time. During the months in which he visits we call Springtime.
48. What Did I Miss?
INTRASCHOOL COMMUNICATION
FROM: 508
TO: 304
Dear Syl,
Welcome back! You were much missed yesterday! By Paul, who kept revising verses he was writing you. By your Joe Ferone, who wandered, listless and passless, through the corridors and out of the building before the PM check-out. By McHabe, who was summoned by the unnerved substitute to sit on your classes. By your kids. And, of course, by me.
Are you all right? Wild rumor has it that you had 1. eloped 2. collapsed beneath a pile of records 3. gone to the movies in the daytime! Which is it?
Bea
INTRASCHOOL COMMUNICATION
FROM: 304
TO: 508
Dear Bea
If I have to check one, Ill take #3.
Actually, I spent the day at Willowdale Academy, being interviewed for a possible February job. From where I sit, it's very tempting.
Came back to find my door fixed at last; it opens and closes now. Buttwo chairs are broken. Fair exchange!
Do the CC's go on the right or the left of the blue line on the PRC?
Syl