Literacy on the Left —— Reform and Revolution

----- 左边的扫盲

ISBN: 9781441194138 出版年：2011 页码：193 Andrew Lambirth Bloomsbury Publishing

DIRECTIONS: Read the following three passages from "Teaching Story." After carefully reading each passage, select the best answer for each multiple-choice item. You have 15 minutes to complete the test. Your performance will assess your understanding of what it means to be a teacher.Passage ICharlie. Such a happy-sad kid. He came for the first three days of school, but this is the first time I've seen him in two weeks. He's escorted by a security guard, 15 minutes late. Opening the door, I say, "Hey, hey Charlie! Glad to see you back."He turns to look at me, his eyebrows raised in surprise or confrontation-I've only seen him a few times, so I'm unsure. My gut, though, suggests he's astonished that I'm greeting him, that I'm happy to see him, that I don't immediately harass him for arriving tardy or missing class. I grin and earn a slight smile back that fails to reach his eyes and, in that moment, while I'm sidestepping to let him pass, take in the fact that his honeyed eyes swim in a tide of bloodshot white. He shuffles over to his seat and pops in his earbuds beneath an over-sized, red hoodie. Tuned in? Tuned out? I don't know.It's been just a few moments, but it's been enough: One student has climbed onto the table in the center of the room. He reclines inappropriately on his side like a lingerie model and twirls an eyelash curler around an index finger, blinking at me slowly. Deliberately. As most of the rest of the class hoots and takes pictures, placing bets on my response, I appreciate that today a flowered headband festoons his hair. I've watched him cut, pin, comb, curl, dye, and cry over that hair. His attempts to control it always fail. It will be what it is. I watch one more bleached-out tendril of frizz escape its plastic, half-moon prison and, without missing a beat, I open my book and say, "Oh, Jon, get down before you hurt yourself.""Awwww!" responds most of the class, hoping for a larger reaction. "Incidentally, your eyes really POP today."And they do. That eyelash curler has worked wonders.And that did it. The class starts to really lose it.I'm certain Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, and whatever other media students access on their handheld space machines crash under the tsunami of posts.Jon bows and, singing all the s's together fluidly in "Thanksss Mssss. LeSsssage," he leaps off the table. Off the stage. He gifts his headband for a handshake, his eyelash curler for a hug, and his throne on the table for a seat in his desk. Jon shines. He is Sally Fields and the class likes him. They really like him. Their deluge of applause and laughter crescendos and crests.As I try to call the students' attention back together for a discussion about our whole-class book, I see Charlie put his head down. Now I also see that he doesn't have the backpack I got him, or any of the other supplies a fellow teacher and I scrounged around for.1.The point of view from which this passage is told is best described as that ofa. an uncaring, unreflective, lazy union thug.b. a student teacher describing a mentor teacher who "succeeds" with "at risk" kids.c. a teacher reflecting on the challenges of helping a student she barely knows.d. an expert, tenured teacher looking back at just a few reasons why she's feeling an overwhelming sense of failure in the teaching profession.2. The most reasonable conclusion to make from the fact that Charlie's "honeyed eyes swim in a tide of bloodshot white" is that hea. is high.b. didn't get enough sleep last night.c. suffers from allergies.d. was crying.3. It can be reasonably inferred that which of the following steps should next be taken?a. Ignore Charlie and continue on with the class.b. Check in to see if Charlie needs to go to the nurse and tell him you're glad to see him again.c. Ask Charlie what happened to the stuff you got him. …