Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grow older, imagination tends to be more and more underrated. Somewhere around seventh grade, people cease telling us to imagine and start telling us to analyze, and most of us do just that. But today, some imagination will be crucial to understand what we are about to explain. So pull out that rusty old dream machine and imagine, if you will, the following scenario...
...maybe pigs will fly. It's like they always told us in grade school. With a good imagination, anything can happen...
...class swallowed under layers of clothes, just her face and huge eyes peeking out, speaking only when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention of the Lexington-born poet Elizabeth Hardwick, who became an early mentor and arranged for a college scholarship. But as an adult Gayl resisted most offers of friendship. In Ann Arbor, she lived like a nun, alone in a threadbare apartment...
...process was stressful," said O'Hare. "We got down to 12 and we wanted a consensus so eventually one person got kicked out." O'Hare compares the entire randomized housing process to picking teams on the playground in grade school...
...ignore. Trying to fit the black experience into the confines of February has trivialized black history. For too many people, black history has become a few famous faces, some choice quotes, a bit of kente cloth and productions showcasing singing and dancing. I realized this in ninth grade, when I helped organize the Black History Month celebration at school. I remember leading the auditorium in the pledge of allegiance, staring out at a sea of faces and wondering what exactly we were really teaching people about black history. They'd already seen the silhouettes of Martin and Malcolm, they...