My Favorite Teacher

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My Favorite Teacher To this date in my life I have been taught, instructed, lectured and occasionally reprimanded by more than forty teachers. All of these teachers have had an impact on me, some taught me life lessons, some study habits and others just facts related to subjects they taught. But one person occupies a slightly larger part of my memory bank than the rest, a person that has taught, lectured at length and disciplined me for my wrong doings. She was an instrumental in my foundation of the English language. Jenny Cancello. It was my last year of middle school, eighth grade, and I felt on top. No more big, bad eighth graders to talk down to me, I was the gorilla and the school was my jungle. This feeling went to my thirteen year old head quick, and irrational behavior took over. Mrs. Cancello, my English teacher at the time, saw my behavior evolving into an irresponsible primate rather than the responsible gorilla I should have been. She promptly dissuaded me with a multi-layered sheet of eight by eleven paper, and a “talk”. She explained the potential I had, and how my current behaviors could corrupt that. We were more than her students and she was more than an instructor, there was an internal bond. She was more than a projector of facts and instructions; she had a motherly aspect to her. Standing nearly five feet and just over seven stones, she couldn’t be distinguished from some female students at that time, but she spoke with love and enthusiasm. Her actions oozed experience. Although she claimed she was a mother of three, reality showed she was a mother of nearly one hundred. Not favoring or disdaining any students. Aside from keeping me on the “right track” and providing me with emotional support she also provided me a strong foundation in reading and writing. At the end of my eighth grade year I was rewarded with an outstanding score in not only
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