“Ringggggg Ringggggggg Ringggggggggg!” “That is the bell kids, get in line for class!”
Tommy was a little third grader that could not wait until he was older. He was just waiting for that moment when he could be a 4th grader. "Hey Tommy," Billy, a 4th grader, said, "I'm gonna tell you the neatest word in the whole world, but, you can NEVER tell anyone what it is."
Tommy was obviously so excited, he didn't notice his class had already gone into the school, ran over to Billy to hear the word. Tommy finally noticed that his class has already left and rushed in to class.
"Tommy," the teacher said, "would you mind telling us why you're late?" "A 4th grader stopped me after recess and told me the neatest word in the world!" Tommy beamed.
"Well, what is it?" asked the teacher.
"I can't tell, he made me promise not to tell anyone."
"You can tell me, I'm your teacher, and I get paid to know what you're thinking."
"Ok, it's Frumpalump."
"FRUMPALUMP?" The teacher screamed. She picked Tommy up, put his fingers into his nose, made him eat the bugars, and then threw him into the hall.
"Go and see the principal about that!" she yelled after him.
Tommy dragged himself to the principal's office and went in. "Hello, Tommy. What seems to be the problem?" the principal asked.
"A 4th grader told me the neatest word in the world, and I told my teacher and she beat me up and sent me here."
"And what was this word?"
"I can't tell you, I promised not to tell!"
"Tommy, I'm in charge of this whole school, including the teacher who beat you up, and the 4th grader who told you this word. Tell me and I'll see what can be done about what happened."
"Ok, it's Frumpalump."
"FRUMPALUMP?" the principal screamed. He picked up his biggest paddle, bent him over the desk, and began hitting him. "You're expelled! Get out of my school!"
Tommy walked home to find his mother ironing clothes. "My goodness, Tommy, what happened? Were you in a fight? Why are you home so early," she said as she ran out to help Tommy in the house.
"A 4th grader told me the neatest word in the world, and I told my teacher, and she beat me up and sent me to the principal, I told him, and he beat me up and sent me here." Tommy whimpered.
"Well, what was this word?
Tommy is bored by his small town with its “ordinary lesson, complete with vocabulary and drills,” at school (p. 46, l. 137), and his mom not listening about his day, “Did you hear me?...You have chores to do.” (p. 58, l. 477-479) Everyone knows everyone else in Five Oaks. In comes Mrs. Ferenczi talking about things he and his classmates had never heard of before. Things like a half bird-half lion called a Sryphon, Saturn and its mysterious clouds, and sick dogs not drinking from rivers but waiting for rain all in one lesson (p. 55-56, l. 393-403). Ideas never stop coming and they branch out from each other before they are properly explained. Most of the kids feel she lies, but Tommy joins her in …. (Write here about how Tommy begins to make up stories like Mrs. F.) Think of the progression: looks-up “Gryphon” in the dictionary….makes-up “Humpster “ story….”sees” unusual trees on the bus ride home….yells at & fights
Mr. Prud’homme, a substitute teacher for the summer session, went to Gene and Finny to discipline them the next morning for missing dinner, but he was soon won over by Finny’s ebullient talkativeness and leaves without giving punishment. Mr. Patch-Withers, the substitute headmaster, held tea that afternoon. Most of the students and faculty conversed awkwardly; Finny, on the other hand, proved he’s a great conversationalist. As Mr. ...
In this story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, the main character is Tommy. Tommy is a nine year old boy, who is in 4th grade at Five Oaks in Michigan. Mr. Hibler, Tommy’s 4th grade teacher developed a cough and doesn’t come to school the next day.
When I walked in Ms. Shannon’s class I introduced myself and told the kids to pretend I wasn’t in the class. I sat in the back an...
...e gave up and pretended that this was something she has said. She ignored the problem and decided to just walk away. She believed that if she escaped and ran away that the problem would no longer exist. ShTommy too has a wilful ignorance shown in the pranks the boys would do. After a while of pranks being played, Tommy became unemotional to his surroundings. He no longer screamed or had a fit when one they picked on him. He instead decided to pretend the problem did no exist. It became a routine for him. He no longer fought, giving up.
“Yes hello I would like to have a conversation with the administration about my daughter coming home crying because her teacher Mrs. Price had forced my daughter to wear a sweater and humiliate her in the middle of class.”
As I rush in the building I do not stop to put my bike away I just throw it to the ground. As I enter the class the teacher, Mrs. Bob, points a long, scaly, pointy finger at me and says the worst words that I will ever hear, “ This is your last tardy you will stay after school and clean the roof for detention.” Now for most normal detentions all you do is work on schoolwork but, for Mrs. Bob she made you clean the three story high roof. You had to hope you did not fall because there is nothing
Chen. Another teacher followed up, he was the 6th graders’ PE teacher I suppose. I stood back up, and I wiped off the little blood coming out of the wound on my lip created by the 6th grader’s scratches while he was on the ground. Mr. Chen took me and my classmates aside, he asked: “What happened over there?” One of my friends answered: “ We were playing basketball at the court first, then they came, and want us to leave the court for them to play. Michael refused, so he punched him, and they just got in a fight.” “Michael,” he then turned to me, “ Even though it is just self-defensing, but you could’ve just run and find me to solve the problem, and you won’t get hurt, why didn’t you do that?” I looked into his eyes, and I said determinately: “I can’t be a coward in his memory, I have to show him what I got, so he won’t try to bully me next time I see him in this class. Plus, a man won’t run from a fight.” At the end, I did not get in trouble for fighting, and those 6th graders have never mess with me again.
I walked in and my stomach made a flip-flop like riding “The Scream” at Six Flags. Everyone was staring at me! With their curios eyes and anxious to know who I was. I froze like ice and felt the heat rise through my face. My parents talked to my teacher, Ms.Piansky. Then my mom whispered “It’s ti...
“Are you in charge of those nasty kids on the other side of the building?” he hollered.
...e greatest prank in our school’s history. And she stopped Mrs. DeCostia from stealing from Mrs. Redrik” Then he took my hand and led me down the hall, past all of my friends, to the stairs. I stopped. “What was that for?” “I was just giving credit where credit was due.” He slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out a rather large ring. “You knew the whole time?!?” “Yeah when we and Matt moved the desk it fell out and I picked it up, I was waiting to give it back until DeCostia got busted.” “Oh my god…” “Anyway, what are we doing tonight? Movies, ice-cream, maybe some pizza?” “We’re hanging out tonight?” “Yeah I have to hang out with my girlfriend to celebrate the undermining of our psycho home wrecking teacher.” “Your girlfriend?” “Yeah...” He said into my hair as he put his hands around my waist and pulled me closer to him “Who else would I hang with tonight?”
Class started by the Mrs. Polzin greeting the students with, what Jimmy thought to be, a fake smile and good morning. She sat down at her desk and asked the pupils to take out their show and tell items. Other students had brought their pictures; others had brought caps and sweatshirts from different countries. Jimmy thought, like the others, his show and tell item was the best.
"You know what? Your favorite teacher, Mr. Zang, is really sissy." Chang-Min screamed, pointing a finger at me. "I think he is afraid of students. That's why he can't hit students."
“You know we are suppose to be in English class right now”, said the guy with the blond hair name Sunil.