西南大学在职研究生英语作业.docVIP

Text 1 导语： 从教数载，你一定收到过无数的请假条，请假的理由五花八门：自个儿生病；父母亲生病；爷爷奶奶生病；小狗生病；小猫生病；跌倒摔倒；闹钟未响；车船晚点……等等等等。当然，这些理由真真假假。要当面揭穿孩子们的谎话还真不是件容易的事。等等！干嘛一定要当面揭穿？这不，Ralph Mckee Vocational School的写作课老师Frank灵机一动：与其当面让孩子难堪，何不将计就计？一堂创意写作课由此而生。其实，教学也需要创意，你说呢？让我们都跟本文的作者Frank学学吧！ Text Excuses, Excuses1 Frank McCourt2 My students forge (编造)the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan. [1] I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at Ralph Mckee Vocational School in Staten Island, New York, when one of my students, 16-year-old Mikey, gave me a note from his mother. It explained his absence from class the day before. [2] “Dear Mr. McCourt, Mikey’s grandmother who is eighty years of age fell down the stairs from too much coffee3 and I kept Mikey at home to take care of her and his baby sister so I could go to my job at the ferry（渡轮） terminal（航空站）. Please excuse Mikey and he’ll do his best in the future. P.S. His grandmother is ok.” I had seen Mikey writing the note at his desk, using his left hand to disguise（伪装） his handwriting. I said nothing. [3] Most parental-excuse notes I received back in those days were penned by my students. They’d been forging（编造） excuse notes since they learned to write, and if I were to confront（面对） each forger I’d be busy 24 hours a day. [4] I threw Mikey’s note into a desk drawer along with dozens of（很多） other notes. While my classes took a test, I decided to read all the notes I’d only glanced at（看了） before. I made two piles, one for the genuine（真实的） ones written by mothers, the other for forgeries. The second was the larger pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative（想象地，虚假的） to lunatic（愚蠢的）. [5] I was having an epiphany（顿悟）. [6] Isn’t it remarkable（非凡的）, I thought, how the students whined （发牢骚）and said it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject? But when they forged excuse notes, they were brilliant. The notes I had could be turned into an anthology（选集） of Great American Excuses. They were samples of talent never mentioned（提到） in song, sto