My Career as an Foolish ESL Teacher.

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A hypertext narrative by

Nicholas Walker

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Story statistics

Word count: 476

Choice count: 11

Section count: 8

Image count: 8

Error count: 9

Field Related Analysis

Education : 48 matches

(choice, class, college, exam, games, goal, high school, homework, management, school, semester, student, students, teacher, teachers)

Sociology : 22 matches

(class, game, goal, homework, school)

Archaeology : 11 matches

(class, here, plan, re, section, study, tell)

Target Structure: (8 matches)

cursory (2 matches)

if I were you (1 match)

pulling off (1 match)

put aside (1 match)

straight a's (1 match)

time management (2 matches)

threats (3 matches)

If I were you (1 match)

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Section 1

The beginning of college.

It was the beginning of college. I started thinking about my program. I had to make an important choice.

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McGill University with three happy college students walking in front of the main building.
McGill University with three happy college students walking in front of the main building.
Section 2

Do my homework every week.

It was the second week of the semester and my teachers had already begun piling on the homework. After dinner, I gave my English homework a cursory glance and made a snap decision about my time management. I will not put aside my homework, I will do it the night it is assigned, and I will be thorough. This way, I will always be ready, and I can spend more time on homework instead of rushing all of the time. If I have a lot of exams coming up, I will plan which class to study for each day. I will feel confident and have the best chances of pulling off the exam. My goal is to get straight A's all year long.

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Stanley Howe / College of Music
Stanley Howe / College of Music
Section 3

Play more video games.

It was the second week of the semester and my teachers had already begun piling on the homework. After dinner, I gave my English homework a cursory glance and made a snap decision about my time management. Homework can wait. Video games are more fun. If there is something important that I need to do, I am sure my teacher will tell me. The next week, my teacher asked the students in class to share their homework with the person sitting next them. My partner was the most attractive student in class. After my partner shared, I said that I didn’t do my homework. My partner turned to me and said, “You’re a lazy jerk, and I never want to talk to you again.”.

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Section 4

Advice.

If I were you, I would do it differently.

Image of student choosing her destiny.
Image of student choosing her destiny.
Section 5

Threats.

You had better do it now.

Create an image of a student working hard at a desk doing homework.
Create an image of a student working hard at a desk doing homework.
Section 6

Play a card game.

We decided to play a card game. We got bored so we invented a new game. It was so much fun that we decided to talk to get the games printed and packaged at a printers. That Christmas every parent wanted to buy a copy of our card game to play with their kids.

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College students playing a card game.
College students playing a card game.
Section 7

Car crash in a snowbank.

Create a car crash in a snowbank.

Car crash in a snowbank
Car crash in a snowbank
Section 8

Go back to high school.

You weren't cut out for college, so you put on a backpack with all of your books and returned to your old high school.

College student at high school.
College student at high school.