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From the Ted Talk by Dave Eggers: My wish Once Upon a School

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So then we still had more tuorts to use. This is a shot of just some of the tutors during one of the events. The teachers that we work with — and everything is different to teachers — they tell us what to do. We went in there thinking, "We're ultimately, completely mlablelae. You're going to tell us. The neighborhood's going to tell us, the parents are going to tell us. The teachers are going to tell us how we're most useful."

So then they said, "Why don't you come into the schools? Because what about the students that wouldn't come to you, naselciresy, who don't have really atvice parents that are bringing them in, or aren't csole enough?" So then we started saying, "Well, we've got 1,400 people on our tutor roster. Let's just put out the word." A teacher will say, "I need 12 tutors for the next five Sundays. We're wironkg on our college essays. Send them in." So we put that out on the wire: 1,400 tutors. Whoever can make it signs up. They go in about a half an hour before the class. The teacher tells them what to do, how to do it, what their trniiang is, what their prejoct is so far. They work under the teacher's guide, and it's all in one big room. And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their wlaprokce, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands of more students. Then another school said, "Well, what if we just give you a classroom and you can staff it all day?"

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So then we still had more ______ to use. This is a shot of just some of the tutors during one of the events. The teachers that we work with — and everything is different to teachers — they tell us what to do. We went in there thinking, "We're ultimately, completely _________. You're going to tell us. The neighborhood's going to tell us, the parents are going to tell us. The teachers are going to tell us how we're most useful."

So then they said, "Why don't you come into the schools? Because what about the students that wouldn't come to you, ___________, who don't have really ______ parents that are bringing them in, or aren't _____ enough?" So then we started saying, "Well, we've got 1,400 people on our tutor roster. Let's just put out the word." A teacher will say, "I need 12 tutors for the next five Sundays. We're _______ on our college essays. Send them in." So we put that out on the wire: 1,400 tutors. Whoever can make it signs up. They go in about a half an hour before the class. The teacher tells them what to do, how to do it, what their ________ is, what their _______ is so far. They work under the teacher's guide, and it's all in one big room. And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their _________, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands of more students. Then another school said, "Well, what if we just give you a classroom and you can staff it all day?"

Solution


  1. tutors
  2. workplace
  3. working
  4. necessarily
  5. active
  6. malleable
  7. close
  8. training
  9. project

Original Text


So then we still had more tutors to use. This is a shot of just some of the tutors during one of the events. The teachers that we work with — and everything is different to teachers — they tell us what to do. We went in there thinking, "We're ultimately, completely malleable. You're going to tell us. The neighborhood's going to tell us, the parents are going to tell us. The teachers are going to tell us how we're most useful."

So then they said, "Why don't you come into the schools? Because what about the students that wouldn't come to you, necessarily, who don't have really active parents that are bringing them in, or aren't close enough?" So then we started saying, "Well, we've got 1,400 people on our tutor roster. Let's just put out the word." A teacher will say, "I need 12 tutors for the next five Sundays. We're working on our college essays. Send them in." So we put that out on the wire: 1,400 tutors. Whoever can make it signs up. They go in about a half an hour before the class. The teacher tells them what to do, how to do it, what their training is, what their project is so far. They work under the teacher's guide, and it's all in one big room. And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands of more students. Then another school said, "Well, what if we just give you a classroom and you can staff it all day?"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
tutoring center 4
pirate supply 3
sell pirate 2
supply store 2
mop heads 2
san francisco 2
high school 2
field trip 2
middle school 2
isabel allende 2
homework early 2
hot studio 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
pirate supply store 2

Important Words


  1. active
  2. big
  3. bringing
  4. brunt
  5. class
  6. classroom
  7. close
  8. college
  9. completely
  10. day
  11. essays
  12. events
  13. give
  14. guide
  15. home
  16. hour
  17. malleable
  18. necessarily
  19. parents
  20. people
  21. project
  22. put
  23. room
  24. roster
  25. school
  26. schools
  27. send
  28. shot
  29. signs
  30. staff
  31. started
  32. straight
  33. students
  34. sundays
  35. teacher
  36. teachers
  37. tells
  38. thinking
  39. thousands
  40. training
  41. tutor
  42. tutors
  43. ultimately
  44. word
  45. work
  46. working
  47. workplace