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At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before
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2022-08-25
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At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before heading for West Milford High, a rural school in northernmost New Jersey. On his 30-minute commute, the young former investment banker tries to dream up new ways of lifting the monumentally forgettable Mexican War off the textbook page and into his students’ imaginations. Can he invoke the storied memories of Robert E. Lee, who cut his first military exploits on the plains of Veracuzor? Will he be met with thundering responses of "Who’s Lee"? Should he raise James K. Polk out of the mystic chords of memory, and hope, for a nanosecond, that the kids will care about the first U. S. president who stepped aside because he’d accomplished everything he wanted? Let’s think some more. Well, there’s always the Alamo. And hey, isn’t that the teachers’ parking lot up ahead?
It’s never an easy task. These big kids in big jeans and ball caps, come to his history classes believing that history is about as useful as Latin. Most are either unaware or unimpressed that the area’s iron forges once produced artillery cannon for George Washington’s army. Their sense of history orbits more narrowly around last month’s adventures on "Shop Rite Strip", the students’ nickname for downtown West Milford, once a factory town, now a magnet for middle-class vacationers.
Cosgrove looks uncommonly glum as he thumbs through a stack of exams in the teachers’ lounge. "I can’t believe anyone in my class could think John Brown was the governor of Massachusetts, "moans Cosgrove, 28, pointing to one student’s test paper. He had to be sleeping for days on end. The same morning, students in his college bound class could name only one U. S. Supreme Court justice—Clarence Thomas. All his wit, energy and beyond-the-textbook research can’t completely reverse the students’ poor preparation in history, their lack of general knowledge, their numbness to the outside world. It’s the bane of history teachers at every level. When University of Vermont professor James Loewen asked his senior social-science majors who fought in the Vietnam War, 22 percent answered North and South Korea. Don’t these kids even go to the movies?
On the way to school, Cosgrove
选项
A、was deep in thought of his past.
B、was thinking of who Lee was.
C、was thinking of how to teach his class.
D、was having a talk with another passenger.
答案
C
解析
根据文章第一段第二句“…dream up new ways of lifting the monumentally forgettable Mexican War off the textbook page and into his students’ imaginations. ”可知,Cosgrove在去学校的路上考虑通过教科书页面和学生的想象力想出新的方法来揭开遗忘的墨西哥战争,故选C。
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