There is a story from many years ago of a primary school teacher called Mrs. Thompson. On the very first day of her fourth grade class, she told the children a _______ . She looked at her students and said that she _______ them all the same. But that was _______ because there in the front row was a little boy, Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and _______ that he didn’t play well with the other children, his clothes were messy and he constantly needed a _______ She did not like him. Later, it got to the _______ where Mrs. Thompson would actually _______ his papers with a red pen, making bold Xs.

However, when she read his file one day, she was in _______. Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, ''Teddy is a _______ child. He does his work ________ and has good manners.'' His second-grade teacher wrote, ''Teddy is an excellent student. But he is ________ by his mother's terminal illness. '' His third-grade teacher wrote, ''His mother's death has been ________ on him. ''

By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ________ of herself. On the very day, she quit teaching reading and writing. ________, she began to teach children how to be a man.

Mrs. Thompson paid particular ________ to Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to ________. The more she encouraged him, the faster he ________. Teddy graduated from the school with the highest of ________. Twenty years later, Mrs. Thompson received a ________ telling her she was the best teacher he has ever met in the world. It was ________, Theodore F. Stoddard, MD.

As a student, I have always loved to write. I have used writing as a means of expression and _________.

Luckily, I met Dr O' Foran -a unique_________ teacher in the second semester of my junior year._________waiting for students to come to her, she went to them. She often said, "I_________ to get to know how you work and why you are here, so I can best_________you. As every good teacher should do, she_________ us to be the best students and writers we can be. She truly treated her students as_________ not as machines pumping out perfect papers. She took account of our_________, our goals and our dreams, and changed her_________ to meet our needs.

I remember one time I__________my edited poem and waited for my teacher’s positive comments__________. But when I later opened the document, I received a mixture of praise and suggested__________. I resubmitted the poem after making a few improvements, hoping I had__________ my work.

However, the next comments I received were more suggested changes. I was__________. I was used to teachers' praising my work and imagery(形象的描述). But Dr.O' Foran was__________. She knew my abilities and my goals. My work may have been fine for another student with__________goals, but it wasn’t for me.

I made more changes and__________ more words. What I discovered was a piece of__________work in my eyes.

I was proud of my poem, __________ after I had put in much hard work, thanks to my teacher who urged me to __________ the work she knew I was able to create.

Brandon Ponzo’s sitting on a lone barber chair. The fifth-grader is wrapped in a dark red barber’s cape (披肩). To his left, a cartoon plays on a small TV. He _________ out of the corner of his eye, careful to keep his head _________. To his right, two other boys sit on folding chairs, looking over books _________ they wait their turn.

Ponzo’s barber — who also _________ as his principal — gets to work.

Terrance Newton has turned a spare room at Warner Elementary School into his personal _________. In the afternoons, he pulls a few boys from the final minutes of class and _________ them to a fresh cut.

It’s a small deed that shows his students that he not only cares about their _________, but also wants them to be happy with themselves and how the world _________ them. Newton has been cutting his students’ hair for about 15 years. Using equipment _________ by a friend who is a barber, he brought his __________ to Warner in his first year as principal.

Cutting hair requires both skills and care. Newton __________ tilts(使倾侧) Brandon’s head from side to side, getting his hairline just __________.

The barbershop session is a unique time for Newton to __________ his students outside the classroom. The “barbershop talk” that fills the temporary space is a(n) __________ for him and his students to relax, get to __________ each other better and think about the future. The boys might not realize it, but every barbershop session is filled with mini-teaching moments. Newton asks them about school and what vocabulary words they’re being tested that week.