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From the Ted Talk by Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!

Unscramble the Blue Letters


You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules? For years I went to — Look, I went the Harvard Ed School. I thought I knew something. They said it was the agrarian calendar, and people had — but let me tell you why that doesn't make ssnee. I never got that. I never got that, because anyone knows if you farm, you don't palnt cpros in July and August. You plant them in the spring. So who came up with this idea? Who owns it? Why did we ever do it? Well it just truns out in the 1840s we did have, schools were open all year. They were open all year, because we had a lot of folks who had to work all day. They didn't have any place for their kids to go. It was a perfect place to have sochlos. So this is not something that is ordained from the ecitudoan gods.

Open Cloze


You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules? For years I went to — Look, I went the Harvard Ed School. I thought I knew something. They said it was the agrarian calendar, and people had — but let me tell you why that doesn't make _____. I never got that. I never got that, because anyone knows if you farm, you don't _____ _____ in July and August. You plant them in the spring. So who came up with this idea? Who owns it? Why did we ever do it? Well it just _____ out in the 1840s we did have, schools were open all year. They were open all year, because we had a lot of folks who had to work all day. They didn't have any place for their kids to go. It was a perfect place to have _______. So this is not something that is ordained from the _________ gods.

Solution


  1. plant
  2. schools
  3. turns
  4. crops
  5. education
  6. sense

Original Text


You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules? For years I went to — Look, I went the Harvard Ed School. I thought I knew something. They said it was the agrarian calendar, and people had — but let me tell you why that doesn't make sense. I never got that. I never got that, because anyone knows if you farm, you don't plant crops in July and August. You plant them in the spring. So who came up with this idea? Who owns it? Why did we ever do it? Well it just turns out in the 1840s we did have, schools were open all year. They were open all year, because we had a lot of folks who had to work all day. They didn't have any place for their kids to go. It was a perfect place to have schools. So this is not something that is ordained from the education gods.

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Important Words


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