Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Ellwood The Great

Michael Tung

When I was a sophomore in high school, I had a ton of boring classes. All except for my
history class with Mr. Ellwood. Mr. Ellwood always wore a suit in class everyday because as he explained, "I think it's what all professional teachers should wear." He was an older man who often used his age a as a base for some of his humor. He was the first teacher that did nothing but lecture. As a result, anyone who had Mr. Ellwood got a head start on learning good note taking. Just by teaching, we learned so much from him and we as a class, were lucky to have him.
Mr. Ellwood always had the lesson on the board at the beginning of the class. He had three large chalkboards that read from left to right. Each was filled to the max with information. He always advised not writing down everything on the board immediately, because he had more information to lecture about that specific topic. The classroom was filled with memorabilia from all the years that Mr. Ellwood had been teaching. From swords to oreo cookie peripherals, he had it all. The room was always organized and we had enough room to ourselves for our stuff and such. This may seem kinda odd but, my most success in the class was actually on the midterm and the final. I scored an average of an 88% on both tests. his tests were also very difficult, so I was happy. I'll never forget Mr. Ellwood, because he was the best teacher that i had, and that he was the one who handed me my diploma on graduation.

4 comments:

  1. Dang dude this sounds like an intense class. I've had teachers like this where they are very professional. It's always good to have a teacher that can push us past our limits and show us that we can do a lot.

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  2. This guy sounds awesome! I love it when people make fun of themselves because of their age, its usually hilarious. Great story! And good job on that final and midterm

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  3. Wow! Sounds like he was an awesome teacher! That's good that he used lecture and you learned how to take good notes, I bet it helps you out quite a bit in lecture classes here at college.

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  4. He sounds like a great guy and i am glad that you had such a great experience with this teacher. I am also glad that he has had a great influence in your high school career

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