Blackouts by Craig Boyko

Author:Craig Boyko
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781551991559
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2008-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Instead of asking us to write about our summers like he’s done on the first day back every other year, Mr. Bearden wrote a sentence on the board and told all of us to copy it down, word for word. When we were done he told us to sign our names at the top and hand our papers forward so he could collect them. He put them in the middle drawer of his desk without even looking at them. James Wu asked if we were going to be graded, which people laughed at but I’m not sure he meant it as a joke. He is such a lame rag he probably thought it was a spelling test or something, even though the sentence was written right up there on the blackboard for us. Mr. Bearden muttered something about how only one of us would be graded on it, and people laughed at that too, because they probably thought he meant James.

Then Mr. Bearden made us open our copies of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl to page one, and Trish pushed her desk next to mine because she’s always forgetting her books, and then Mr. Bearden had us take turns reading out loud, starting at the back corner by the door where Josh Tolman always sits so he can carve dragons and werewolves into the desktop without being bothered.

This is the sentence that Mr. Bearden wrote on the board:

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