tailieunhanh - How to writing well_10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'how to writing well_10', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 580 PART FIVE - ADDITIONAL READINGS you go across to the Glee Club now because you re going to work your tails off here 7 I was soon under Miss Hurd s spell. She did indeed teach us to put out a newspaper skills I honed during my next twenty-five years as a journalist. Soon I asked the principal to transfer me to her English class as well. There she drilled us on grammar until I finally began to understand the logic and structure of the English language. She assigned stories for us to read and discuss not tales of heroes like the Greek myths I knew but stories of underdogs poor people even immigrants who seemed ordinary until a crisis drove them to do something extraordinary. She also introduced us to the literary wealth of Greece giving me a new perspective on my war-ravaged impoverished homeland. I began to be proud of my origins. 8 One day after discussing how writers should write about what they know she assigned us to compose an essay from our own experience. Fixing me with a stern look she added Nick I want you to write about what happened to your family in Greece. I had been trying to put those painful memories behind me and left the assignment until the last moment. Then on a warm spring afternoon I sat in my room with a yellow pad and pencil and stared out the window at the buds on the trees. I wrote that the coming of spring always reminded me of the last time I said goodbye to my mother on a green and gold day in 1948. 9 I kept writing one line after another telling how the Communist guerrillas occupied our village took our home and food how my mother started planning our escape when she learned that children were to be sent to re-education camps behind the Iron Curtain and how at the last moment she couldn t escape with us because the guerrillas sent her with a group of women to thresh wheat in a distant village. She promised she would try to get away on her own she told me to be brave and hung a silver cross around my neck and then she kissed me. I .