My School
As you become older you
realize that there are several essential things and places you always long to
come back to. They are your birthplace, your home and the school you went to.
My school was a three-storeyed
building situated in one of the residential districts of our city (town,
settlement). All the children from the neighbourhood went there because it was
a walking distance from their homes. There was a sports ground behind the
school-building and a green lawn with flower-beds in front of it.
The school was built a few
years ago. That's why its classrooms were light and spacious. There were three
large windows in each classroom with flower pots on the windowsills. It was
pupils' (especially girls') responsibility to water the flowers. And they did
it with utmost care. There were maps and portraits, tables and charts on the
walls of the classrooms.
Our classroom was on the
second floor. Its windows faced the school-yard. Our form was the only one at
school who had a form-master, but not a form-mistress. He appeared to be a very
kind and knowledgeable teacher who spared no time to take us to different
places of interest and exhibitions. He taught us Russian and Russian
literature.
We respected him very much. Our
lessons began at eight o'clock in the morning and lasted till one thirty in the
afternoon. We had six lessons a day. Every pupil had a day-book where the
teachers wrote down the mark each pupil had earned for his answers. The teacher
also wrote down the mark in the class register. When the teacher asked a
question, the pupils who could answer it raised their hands, and the teacher
called out one of them to answer the question.
The pupils were often called
to the blackboard to do some exercises or to write some sentences. When they
made mistakes, other pupils .were called out to correct those mistakes or the
teacher corrected them herself. After every lesson the teachers gave us some
home assignments both written and oral. At the next lesson the teachers checked
them up.
The teachers often took our
exercise-books home to check them up. If there were any mistakes they corrected
them and gave us marks. At the end of each quarter we got our report cards
which our parents signed. At the end of the study year we were promoted, to the
next form.
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