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1、Text1导语：从教数载，你一定收到过无数的请假条，请假的理由五花八门：自个儿生病；父母亲生病；爷爷奶奶生病；小狗生病；小猫生病；跌倒摔倒；闹钟未响；车船晚点……等等等等。当然，这些理由真真假假。要当面揭穿孩子们的谎话还真不是件容易的事。等等！干嘛一定要当面揭穿？这不，RalphMckeeVocationalSchool的写作课老师Frank灵机一动：与其当面让孩子难堪，何不将计就计？一堂创意写作课由此而生。其实，教学也需要创意，你说呢？让我们都跟本文的作者Frank学学吧！TextExcuses,Excuses1FrankMcCourt
2、2Mystudentsforge(编造)thenotes.Iturnedthemintoalessonplan.[1]IwasinmythirdyearofteachingcreativewritingatRalphMckeeVocationalSchoolinStatenIsland,NewYork,whenoneofmystudents,16-year-oldMikey,gavemeanotefromhismother.Itexplainedhisabsencefromclassthedaybefore.[2]“DearMr.McCo
3、urt,Mikey’sgrandmotherwhoiseightyyearsofagefelldownthestairsfromtoomuchcoffee3andIkeptMikeyathometotakecareofherandhisbabysistersoIcouldgotomyjobattheferry（渡轮）terminal（航空站）.PleaseexcuseMikeyandhe’lldohisbestinthefuture.disguise:[dis'ɡaiz]v.伪装；假装forge:[fɔ:dʒ]v.伪造genuine:['
4、dʒenjuin]adj.真实的lunatic:['lju:nətik]adj.疯狂的；愚蠢的epiphany:[i'pifəni]n.顿悟anthology:[æn'θɔlədʒi]n.选集P.S.Hisgrandmotherisok.”IhadseenMikeywritingthenoteathisdesk,usinghislefthandtodisguise（伪装）hishandwriting.Isaidnothing.[3]Mostparental-excusenotesIreceivedbackinthosedayswerepe
5、nnedbymystudents.They’dbeenforging（编造）excusenotessincetheylearnedtowrite,andifIweretoconfront（面对）eachforgerI’dbebusy24hoursaday.[4]IthrewMikey’snoteintoadeskdraweralongwithdozensof（很多）othernotes.Whilemyclassestookatest,IdecidedtoreadallthenotesI’donlyglancedat（看了）before.I
6、madetwopiles,oneforthegenuine（真实的）oneswrittenbymothers,theotherforforgeries.Thesecondwasthelargerpile,withwritingthatrangedfromimaginative（想象地，虚假的）tolunatic（愚蠢的）.[5]Iwashavinganepiphany（顿悟）.[6]Isn’titremarkable（非凡的）,Ithought,howthestudentswhined（发牢骚）andsaiditwashardputtin
7、g200wordstogetheronanysubject?Butwhentheyforgedexcusenotes,theywerebrilliant.ThenotesIhadcouldbeturnedintoananthology（选集）ofGreatAmericanExcuses.Theyweresamplesoftalentnevermentioned（提到）insong,storyorstudy.[7]HerewasAmericanhighschoolwritingatitsbest---raw（未加工的）,real,urgen
8、t（紧急的）,lucid（清晰的）,brief,andlying.Iread:[8]Thestove（炉灶）caughtfireandthewallpaperwentupandthefired
