An Oklahoma teacher is being praised because she has taught her students a special lesson that they will not soon forget.
Karen Loewe has been teaching seventh and eighth grade students for over 22 years.But recently one of her classes was the most powerful.She decided to try a new exercise with her students called "The Emotional Baggage (情感包袱) Activity".During the class,she asked students to write some emotional baggage of their own without names on the paper.They could describe their issues as freely as they wanted.Then teenagers were asked to take turns reading what their classmates wrote,and all of them were given a chance to discuss the writing.
"I'm here to tell you,I have never been so moved to tears by what these teenagers wrote and shared with the class," Loewe wrote on the Internet. " The students who read and listened to the articles cried because what they were reading and listening to were moving.The students who shared them would cry sometimes,too.I strongly believe that my kids will criticize a little less and love a little more." And Loewe's students have clearly been so much more respectful to each other.
Since writing about her exercise on social media,Loewe's post has been shared more than 500,000 times.Teachers from all over the world have reached out to her about performing similar activities in their own classrooms.Loewe keeps all the articles in a plastic bag so that her students won't soon forget their exercise.Loewe wrote on her post, "I will leave the bag at the door.As they leave,I tell them they are not alone,they are loved,and we have each other's report."
(1)On their paper,the students wrote
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A.what was troubling them
B.what they would never forget
C.wonderful things in their lives
D.their own thoughts and names
(2)From Loewe's post we can learn that
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A.Loewe read the articles to her students
B.Loewe hoped to see more moving stories
C.Loewe thought the exercise was meaningful
D.Loewe told her students to see things from two sides
(3)After knowing Loewe's activity,many teachers
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A.went to visit her
B.wrote letters to praise her
C.wanted to follow her example
D.tried to learn how to perform
(4)The plastic bag is kept mainly to
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A.advise the students to respect teachers
B.ask other teachers to care about their students
C.show the exercise will be performed again
D.remind the students that they are loved and supported