I walked into a wild third-grade classroom. Loud music was playing, kids were throwing a football, and students were dancing wherever they could find space. I was a mid-year replacement(替补). The previous(之前的)teacher said he could no longer teach these children and left the job during the holiday break. (A)As soon as I walked into the room, I understood why he left.
I sat down quietly in my chair and began reading their names softly. ① I then put up a mirror on the wall next to the blackboard and began writing my name and a reading task on the blackboard.
I then asked the children to come up one by one, tell me their names and what they wanted to learn about. It was a difficult task, (B) only two children said they wanted to learn anything!
(C)我为教室制定规则and talked to the students' parents in the hope that I could fix this rowdy(吵闹的)bunch of kids. ②But it was the mirror that saved the day—no, the year!
The mirror allowed me to see my students' every move while I was writing on the blackboard. They soon became puzzled about how I knew who was misbehaving while I looked at the blackboard. When one student finally asked me, I told him I had a special teacher's eye in the back of my head that my hair covered. At (D) , they did not believe me. But they did begin to behave better, especially while I wrote on the blackboard. They were starting to believe that I had magical vision(视力). ③Why mess up(搞砸)a good thing?
As soon as I walked into the room, I understood the his leaving.
