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My Sister…My Teacher


(an excerpt)

Written by: Caitlynn MacDonald, Gr. 7 student, St. Alfred’s Catholic Elementary
Edited by: Brice Marshall, Gr. 12 Writer’s Craft

Most of the time, we are on our Chromebooks which are rough as a brick and smell like plastic. I hear other people clicking the keys furiously, like I am right now. I'm as busy as a bee doing my work. I love school a little more this year, until one terrible day, Tuesday, Oct 3rd. That day was the worst! One minute everything was perfect, but then seconds after, it was a wreck. When I got to school that morning, everyone was as silent as a mouse and the classroom was as dark as a cave. No one was talking until the principal came in with a sub. We NEVER EVER have a sub because Mrs. D is always at school. I was looking down at my scuffed Air Force Ones, when I suddenly heard the principal tell us the substitute’s name, Mrs. MacDonald. I couldn't believe my ears, so I shot up my head only to see the sub was….MY SISTER! Everyone knows how bad my sister is at teaching and I don’t even know how she is teaching us right now because she's only 14!