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580 PART FIVE - ADDITIONAL READINGS


you go across to the Glee Club now, because you’re going to work your
tails off here!”
I was soon under Miss Hurd’s spell. She did indeed teach us to put
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out a newspaper, skills I honed during my next twenty-five years as a
journalist. Soon I asked the principal to transfer me to her English class
as well. There, she drilled us on grammar until I finally began to under-
stand the logic and structure of the English language. She assigned sto-
ries for us to read and discuss; not tales of heroes, like the Greek myths
I knew, but stories of underdogs—poor people, even immigrants, who
seemed ordinary until a crisis drove them to do something extraordi-
nary. She also introduced us to the literary wealth of Greece—giving me
a new perspective on my war-ravaged, impoverished homeland. I began
to be proud of my origins.
One day, after discussing how writers should write about what they
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know, she assigned us to compose an essay from our own experience.
Fixing me with a stern look, she added, “Nick, I want you to write about
what happened to your family in Greece.” I had been trying to put those
painful memories behind



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