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Show Education Defined Anecdotes Reveal Classroom's Lively Suspense by Stella Ktestes There is silence. Some 1,900 breaths are held; fearful immobility immobil-ity hangs heavily over the auditorium audi-torium like the weight of an axe above the guillotine. Blood curdling curd-ling sensations chase each other up and down 1,900 spinal columns. Then a wind sends the curtains swaying as 1,900 breaths are released re-leased and many bodies relax: Barbara Bar-bara Morrison unwinds her arms and legs and, astoundingly, all bones are where they belong! Forty infernal contraptions each send forty-two little demons pounding pound-ing upon eighty ears in rapid succession. suc-cession. Four hundred fingers hula furiously, endeavoring to outdistance out-distance fantastically contortioning letters while one faculty individual sits serenely smiling down upon forty time-tormented souls. Then forty minds rise from the feverish fever-ish abyss of noise: Mr. Barr has just called "Time" terminating a type speed test! Energy fairly flies about the room. Ten syllable words play "Truth or Consequences" while brain cells strain to the breaking point and finally collapse into inert in-ert ganglions under the non-exist-ant eyes of the skeleton in the corner: cor-ner: Miss Kaplan is developing thirty-five walking textbooks! |