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From the Ted Talk by Sharif El-Mekki: Reviving the legacy of the Black teaching tradition

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I loved my high soohcl. And it was the first time I experienced low expectations as a student. It started with my placement test. Based on my score, my mother was encouraged to allow me to skip two gareds. She declined— but she did let me skip one. I remember my somhprooe year and cutting English class for almost a month. And sometimes I would run into my teacher in the hallway. And I was so nreovus. We would lock eyes and she would look away and go about her way. But I also had Mr. Charles Mosley. One of the few bclak teachers that I had in high school. He would connect history to his literature class. He had the audacity to believe that an English class should inuclde the works of Black arothus. One of the few teims in high school that I experienced seeing myself in the curriculum.

Open Cloze


I loved my high ______. And it was the first time I experienced low expectations as a student. It started with my placement test. Based on my score, my mother was encouraged to allow me to skip two ______. She declined— but she did let me skip one. I remember my _________ year and cutting English class for almost a month. And sometimes I would run into my teacher in the hallway. And I was so _______. We would lock eyes and she would look away and go about her way. But I also had Mr. Charles Mosley. One of the few _____ teachers that I had in high school. He would connect history to his literature class. He had the audacity to believe that an English class should _______ the works of Black _______. One of the few _____ in high school that I experienced seeing myself in the curriculum.

Solution


  1. black
  2. grades
  3. sophomore
  4. school
  5. authors
  6. nervous
  7. times
  8. include

Original Text


I loved my high school. And it was the first time I experienced low expectations as a student. It started with my placement test. Based on my score, my mother was encouraged to allow me to skip two grades. She declined— but she did let me skip one. I remember my sophomore year and cutting English class for almost a month. And sometimes I would run into my teacher in the hallway. And I was so nervous. We would lock eyes and she would look away and go about her way. But I also had Mr. Charles Mosley. One of the few Black teachers that I had in high school. He would connect history to his literature class. He had the audacity to believe that an English class should include the works of Black authors. One of the few times in high school that I experienced seeing myself in the curriculum.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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