The Absolutely True Diary of a Student Teacher
By Jane Smith
Do you want to know what time my day starts? Here’s what my alarm clock looks like when I
get up every morning:
5:45
Angry little numbers, you know? Not really what you want to see when you wake up in the
morning, but there you have it. Five-forty-five in the A.M. That’s what time I get up in order to
get to school on time. I live over an hour away from Cambridge by train.
You’re probably thinking to yourself right now: I’m reading the diary of a crazy person. Why on
earth would ANYONE want to get up before the sun even rises every single morning?
Well, you see, it all started when I was a little girl. I liked to teach my younger brother the basics
of math… well, until he got better at math than I did:
That’s when I decided to teach English. Somehow teaching about reading, writing, and critical
thinking seemed like more fun than calculus anyway.
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