Amy: Do you know when the history exam starts? I lost the paper.
Ben: Here it is. Ms. Wang put it on the board this morning.
| MID-TERM EXAM · Grade 8 |
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| Thursday, June 6 |
| History 9:00 - 9:50 |
| Room 305 · Third Floor |
| Thirteen students in each row |
| Bring your student card |
Ben: The room is not our classroom. We must go up one floor.
Amy: Thanks. I will study the last three lessons tonight. Should I bring my workbook?
Ben: No, only a pen and your card.
Teacher's Day · Friday, September 28
Every student must join the morning meeting. The card must be made by the whole class, not by one person. Students who want to sing should write their names on the paper outside the music room before Wednesday. A CD of last year's songs is on the desk there, and the key to the room is with Mr. Lo.
There will be no lessons in the afternoon. The school bus will leave at one o'clock, and students who go home by bicycle should be careful because the road near the garage is being fixed.
Dear Miss Chen,
I am writing about the science project that we must hand in next Monday. My group chose to study how plants grow in the dark, and we have watched our plants for three weeks. However, two of our plants died last Sunday, and we do not know the reason.
May we write about why they died and not show how tall they grew? We think this may be more useful for the class. If you do not agree, we will start again with new plants, but then we will need one more week.
Please tell me before Thursday so that our group can plan our weekend.
Judy
Today a student can find almost any fact anywhere, on a phone, in a few seconds. Some people therefore guess that schools will soon close and that no one will need a teacher.
But a fact is not the same as an education. A machine can tell you the year of a war, yet it cannot see that you are afraid to speak, or notice that you have not eaten supper. A good teacher watches the person, not only the answer; that is the key to a real education, and no online course can do it alone.
Learning is also something we do together. In class we hear other students say things we never thought of, and we learn to listen even when we do not agree. That is a lesson no phone can deliver.