Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Recently she asked the class to draw such simple symbols as a flag or a dove of peace. Soon the lesson had blossomed into a study of the parts of speech. "I also had them drawing pictures of figures of speech, like 'you drive me up the wall.' They loved it. After that they seemed ready for similes and metaphors." Becker grades themes and tests at home at least three days each week, two to five hours at a stint...
Carolyn Kelly, 33, whispers to a visitor: "I love this." Kelly has just led a spirited senior class debate on the best interpretation of H.G. Wells' The Man Who Could Work Miracles. "I feel rejuvenated when a kid expresses something in a manner that for him is totally new, totally...
...seniors are Kelly's star pupils. She also teaches a basic English class and acts as coordinator of teacher advisers at the Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass. If need be she can reason with students from slum backgrounds in their own street-wise slang, and she spends a good deal of time trying to make students understand that public school is still a gateway to opportunity. Says she: "My goal is not just academic; it's teaching kids what it is to be a human being...
...England? Better pack a suitcase full of traveler's checks. This year London has become the world's most expensive city for an executive to visit, nosing out such traditional high-roller havens as Paris and Tokyo. Two days in the shadow of Big Ben-with first-class wining and dining all the way-now cost a princely $1,093, excluding airfare, according to a new survey of 30 cities by Business International, a New York consulting firm...
Joshua Then and Now is unequivocally eventful, a circus of family entanglements, class conflicts, foreign and domestic adventures, sexual and criminal escapades, satire about life in literary London and semiliterate Hollywood. Shapiro is not the sort of writer to sit around massaging sexual guilts or nursing orchids of sensibility. He knows his craft but would rather talk about hockey, the Louis-Conn fight and the Spanish Civil...