Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
Anyway let's get right to it,
On Monday 6 January Hugh Mullins was getting ready to teach 8D. The young English teacher was newly qualified, and 8D was the most challenging class in Moreland School.
Back in at the deep end, he reflected, emptying his bag. Year 8 English: texts and approaches (A teacher’s handbook) weighed a ton. He looked around the empty classroom and sighed nervously. Maybe Samir would be off sick. A loud bellow from the corridor made him jump. Mamadou, aka Motor-mouth, was warming up his vocal chords.
Here we go again, Hugh groaned inwardly, burying his face in his hands. But he pulled himself together when Aisha and Nouria walked in.
“Happy new year, sir!” they giggled.
On second thoughts, the girls in 8D weren’t such a lost cause… Hugh wished them a happy new year too, in what hoped was a formal voice. His more experienced colleagues had warned him, “Don’t get too friendly with your students, or they’ll eat you alive.”
“That’s nice sweater, sir,” said Nouria. “Was it from father Christmas?”
Hugh blushed. It was a present from his mum. 8D always caught him off guard.
Okay..well this is an interesting one. I'm not entirely sure what exactly this is meant to be as far as sort of if its a standalone little scene or ifs meant to be something bigger, but oddly enough I can totally see this piece fitting right in with both scenarios, and doing so fairly well, although it is a little less effective in terms of standing on its own.
At any rate I am loving this little interaction bit with this teacher and the student. The touch of the teacher's inner monologue there is wonderful and I think the dialogue here really comes off quite nicely as being pretty natural and really does take you right back to how a classroom can go here. I'm loving the play with the emotions there and I honestly would love to see more of this, but of course a couple of lines there is all we have.
I think the introductory bit to the class is a little clunky and is maybe the one part of this that I don't really like the look of too much, but besides that particular situation, this is a nice piece, and I honestly would love to see more of these characters here.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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