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Fantastic Johnny

by Kathy Morlan

Jun 19, 2011

One year I had Johnny in 11th grade American Lit. Johnny was great at sliding by! He was fantastic at slumping in his chair, throwing paper balls, and drawing race cars. When I handed out the results of the Crucible test, I mentioned to Johnny that if he had written any of the answers on his study guides, he would probably have raised his grade by 3 points and would have gotten a "C" and possibly have earned a "B". He looked at me as if I were crazy for thinking this.

The next week I caught him putting some answers down on the study guides. He earned a B. This seemed to scare him and I stepped back. The next unit was a repeat of the Crucible - almost a C. For the next unit, I'd casually remark that it would be nice to see some better answers on his classwork, that I knew he had more to say about what Patrick Henry had to say than what Johnny wrote. He earned another B.

As I returned the tests, I mentioned he was 2 points shy of an A. That year, Johnny fluctuated: he...See More

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