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This text is all about the writer’s experience during her first days of teaching. This is entitled “A Classroom Full of Flowers” and is written by Janice Anderson Connelly herself. I can say that she is really a good teacher based in what she did to her students. She did a good job not giving up in that class, which almost everyone has given up to. After reading the text I felt really touched and proud by what the students did to her and vice versa. I was also touched by the relationship they established as time passes. I was proud of her because she bravely shared her experience while she was still studying to her students, even though it was not a good one. She didn’t let dyslexia stop her passion. By sharing this experience of hers, she was able to let the students know that she wouldn’t tolerate their previous behavior and that she would help them graduate whatever it takes because she doesn’t want the fact that there are people called ‘retards’ in that room. I salute her for being patient teaching those students labelled as ‘retards’ by most people, because the students their selves at first don’t believe themselves. It was very touching of her that she really thought of and did everything she can to help those students be better. The students also did they part in this text. I feel proud for them because they really graduated and a number of them made it as university scholars, and later on, become very successful. Also I feel proud for them because they were able to shake it off to their systems that they are ‘retards’ and they did their best to be a good student. I can say that they’ve become really good students because of what they did for their teacher as her final day approached. It was very touching how they put their efforts in putting and arranging all those flowers all over the room. Also it was very touching of Mark because he was the one who had the idea of having those flowers. As I read towards the end of the text, I can really feel how