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Mr. Browne wrote all that on the ______ and then turned around and faced us

He wrote everything everyone called out. ______

“Sharks, because they eat dead things in the ______.” said one of the boys

“What kind of person am ______.“

“Know Thyself,’” he said, smiling and nodding. “And learning who you are is what you’re here to ______.”

“I thought we were here to learn ______,” Jack cracked

“Okay, so, everybody,” he said, facing us again, “I want you to start a brand-new section in your notebooks and call it Mr. Browne’s ______.

“Put today’s date at the top of the first ______.

“I’m going to write a new Mr. Browne precept on the ______ and you’re going to write it down in your notebook

“Over the summer, I ask all my students to come up with their very own personal ______.

Choose Kind There was a lot of shuffling around when the bell ______ and everybody got up to leave.

I checked my schedule and it said my next class was English, room ______.

I didn’t stop to see if anyone else from my homeroom was going my way: I just ______ out of the class and down the hall and sat down as far from the front as possible.

The teacher, a really tall man with a ______ beard, was writing on the chalkboard.

Kids came in laughing and talking in little groups but I didn’t ______.

Basically, the same thing that happened in homeroom happened again: no one sat next to me except for Jack, who was joking around with some kids who weren’t in our homeroom. I could tell Jack was the kind of kid other kids ______.

He had a lot of ______.

When the second bell ______, everyone got quiet and the teacher turned around and faced us.

He said his name was Mr. Browne, and then he started talking about what we would be doing this ______.

At a certain point, somewhere between A Wrinkle in Time and Shen of the Sea, he noticed me but kept right on ______.