Study the text carefully and answer these questions.
How did the parents respond to the Open School Session?
How did those who came behave?
Why did Sylvia say that" the Open School Session was a fiasco?
What did Sylvia learn?
Was the Open School Session well timed?
What made Sylvia hand in her resignation?
What kind of teacher did Sylvia wish to become?
Why do you think Sylvia's class made her sub miserable?
What were her pupils worried about? What was the rumour they heard?
What kind of present were the pupils' greeting cards to Sylvia?
Why were the children so eager to get Sylvia back?
Who visited Sylvia while she was in hospital?
What ballad was she to receive shortly? Who composed it?
What decision did Sylvia come to eventually? Did she quit the school or did she decide to stay on?
Do many teachers resign from New York City schools every year? What does it mean?
II. Explain or comment on these statements.
1. They have come to avenge themselves on their own teachers of long ago. 2. They had come to ask the teacher to do the job they failed to do. 3. "A teacher I'll never forget". "To be a lady-God , 4. I wanted to fight the unequal battle against all that stands in the Way of teaching. 5. Am I but another dropout? 6. You're a person with a good sense of humour and a touch of teacherly love. 7. "A" for effort.
