He ______ （）me yesterday, because I wasn’t there.

Fa11,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin, "Who" .

I asked a senior, "is  Mrs McNamara, my l0th grade English teacher？" He just__1_and said something

about my being in _2_. Soon,l understood what he meant. Mrs McNamara had a pattem of __3_that she

repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for_4_.The next day, when we came

to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard_5__ to the homework reading. We were

_6_ to write an in-class essay about one of the topics. The following day , she would_7_the corrected

and graded essays andeach person would be called_8_to stand in front of the class and to_9_ his/her

essay. The class were required to criticize(评论) that  essay ,__10__ the grade of everyone in class

would  be reduced.

The first time that I _11her read-write-criticize method . I had not _12_ to do the homework and had

written something without knowing what it meant._13_the extreme embarrassment I sufferred,standing

before my classmates , _14_myself. No one laughed

at me;no one would be _15_ enough ,or foolish enough ,to do that  in Mrs McNamara's class. The

embarrassment came from_16_and along with it came a strong_17_not to let it happen again.

Mrs McNamara kept all of our written work in files;it was easy to see the_18_ in writing that had

occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me.

What Mrs McNamara_19me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that.l could

improve myself. And I_20__. Thank you,Mrs McNamara.