Bel Kaufman - Up The Down Staircase

Motivate Comp. Lesson:

Impt. of Communication

A. Need to express selves and be understood

B. Language as a tool of communication

Put on blackbd:

"What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed"

(Pope?)

"Le style est l'homme."

Carfare: .15

Newsp:. .10

Coffee :. .10

Tuna sand.:. .60

Coffee: . .10

Teachers' Interest Com. 1.50

2.55 (so far)

Admit to class—8:39 A.M.

Disciplined by me for whistling in the hall.

JJ McH

Dear Miss Barrett,

Remember me? I was in your class the first week of school and tho I never came back due to moving I think I will never forget you and the time you talked to me on the subway. Altho english was not my best subject everything we did was nice and you were the only one who took an interest. You never made any bad remarks. How's the old Alma Mater? How's Dr. Clarke? Is he still a Dr? Well, lots of luck. Say hello to everybody for me and take care of yourself.

Your former loving pupil,

Iris Lefferts

The ghost walks! He's in Rm. 301 now. Heading due north. Looks grim. Open your windows!

CIRCULAR # 27

PLEASE KEEP ALL CIRCULARS ON FILE, IN THEIR ORDER

TOPIC: ADDENDUM TO PUPIL PERSONALITY PROFILES

TO SECURE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF PUPIL ORIENTATION TO HIS ENVIRONMENT, ADDITIONAL SPACE HAS BEEN PROVIDED ON THE ENCLOSED CHARACTER-ATTENDANCE RATING SHEETS IN ORDER TO INCLUDE

My best friend. Well, well! Right of the bat, as soon as we sit down, our teacher Miss Baret gives us a composition to write! Well, well! to be frank with you, I do not like it. I do not like to write compositions when we could be discussing. Or dramatize or a speling bee, but not so much composition! It's not fair to the Union! Ha-ha, joke!

MY BEST FRIEND

Last summer I visited my Ant on the beach. My ant has a cottach on the beach and every summer she invites me to visit her and I did. I had fun on the beach swiming and handball and getting the healthy benefit of the sun and broadwalk. I gained and went on the loop. I hope my Ant invites me again next summer.

Late Pass:

Admit to class—8:32 A.M.

Unexcused—Claims alarm didn't go off.

JJ McH

TO: Custodian

Dear Mr. Grayson—

My window-pole seems to be missing. Room

304. Urgent! 2nd request.

S. Barrett

No one down here. Try after lunch.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 P.M. IN

SCIENCE LAB 309 ON:

SELECTION OF MATERIALS OF INSTRUCTION

FOR ENRICHING THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF

THE PUPIL:

SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6TH

TERM INSTEAD OF THE 4TH?

Dear Mrs. Barnett,

Please excuse my son Arnold for not doing his English homework. He got in trouble with the Police last night and they kept him in the Station House. Hoping you will excuse him, I remain

Mrs. Rose A.

Scrape paper

A) My B. Freind

1. Name adress

2. What we do togeather

3. Why I like my b. freind

4. Why my b. freind likes me

5. Hobies

6. Concluding sent.

7. Man—gregrous animal

Dear Dr. Clarke,

( I know how busy you are, but I feel)

( You are, undoubtedly, aware of the discrepancy existing)

My best friend is my imaginary twin sister. She does everything I tell her. She is beautifull and obeys me freely. We share and share alike (beautifull dresses, etc) Her name is Roseanne. We are closer than any body even if she is only in my mind. She is my twin and she never talks back.

BOOK ROOM

REQUISITION SLIP

Need 40 Syntax & Style for Eng. 33 SS

(Register—46

(Chronic truant—7

79 Romeo & Juliet for Eng. 52 & 56

S. Barrett—Rm 304

We have only 4 Syntaxes & 26 Romeos in Bookroom.

Can you use Ivanhoes instead? There are 160 copies here.

major, and won my Master's degree with 'first honors for my thesis on THE FRENCH INFLUENCE IN THE OCTOSYLLABIC COUPLET OF CHAUCER"S "BOKE OF THE DUCHESSE." I hold a license in English in the New York City Secondary Schools and am at present teaching at Calvin Coolidge High School. ( In order to supplement my) If there is a teaching vacancy in your evening or summer session, I should appreciate hearing from you.

Sincerely yours,

Sylvia Barrett

My best friend is my boy-friend and he is tall, rich and handsome, he has a twotone Caddy con-vertable with white leather seats of genuine white leather and takes me danceing every night in nightclubs ect. He gives me orhcids and jewlry ect. and has a big yahct. He lives on Park ave with servants of which I will be mistress of and a ranch type house in Bev. Hills with a swimming pool ect. That is why I hope to meet him.

TO: Miss Sylvia Barrett

FROM: Samuel Bester, Chairman, Language Arts Department

Please announce to your students the New York Chamber of Commerce Essay on: PRESERVING HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK.

Encourage all students to participate.

S. Bester

May I borrow your window-pole? Please give to

bearer.

S.B.

Dear Syl— Someone has swiped mine. There's a

run on window-poles today. And on pole-bearers!

Bea

Late Pass:

Admit to class: 8:36 A.M.

Unexcused: Claims IRT stuck.

JJ McH

My Best Friend

My best friend is Miss Barrett, our English teacher. Although this is the first term I have met Miss Barrett, she is pretty, a good dresser, a good marker, and fair in her attitude. She is the type teacher every student likes. For the reasons above mentioned I choose Miss Barrett.

DEAR (SIR, MADAM)

I AM (PLEASED, SORRY) TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR (SON'S, DAUGHTER'S ) WORK HAS SO FAR …

My best friend is a good book. I enjoy good books that are educational very much. Books help your grammer and spelling. Also increase your vocabulary. I am a great reader of books. My best favorite is "Antony and Cleopatra" by Shakespear. In this book I like the part where the author tries to show love. Where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton make love which I like. I like other good books too, mostly classical.

Memo: Return English as a Communications Art.

I have some best friends and also some worst friends but its hard to write down, its hard to explain what I really want to say about friends and others its hard to explain to anybody I often wisht I had a friend thats understanding. But its very hard.

Dear Dr. Clarke,

Since I began teaching, I have felt a lack of

Please admit bearer to class—

Detained by me for going Up the Down stair-

case and subsequent insolence.

JJ McH

My best friend

I believe my Mother to be my best friend because. She always listens to my troubles and trys to comfort me. She has been sacraficing all her life so I could be a credit to her and not a bum and all I did since born is cause her trouble by shooting pools and doing such things. I am apoligizing in this letter. Very truly yours.