Margie's Diary Entry Quiz

MARGIE even wrote about it that night in her ______.

Today Tommy found a real ______!

Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his ______ told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.

They turned the pages, which were yellow and ______, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to on a screen.

When you're through with the book, you just throw it ______.

Margie always hated ______, but now she hated it more than ever.

The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in ______ and she had been doing worse and worse

The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie's head.He said to her mother, 'It's not the little girl's fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I've slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory.' And he patted Margie's head again. Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy's teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had ______ out completely.

So she said to Tommy, 'Why would anyone write about school?' Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. 'Because it's not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago. He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully. 'Centuries ago Margie was hurt. 'Well, I don't know what kind of school they had all that time ago. She read the book over his shoulder for a while, then said, 'Anyway, they had a ______.'

A man?' 'How could a man be a teacher?' 'Well, he just told the boys and girls things and gave them homework and asked them questions.' 'A man isn't smart enough.' 'Sure he is. My father knows as much as my teacher.' 'He knows almost as much. I betcha.' Margie wasn't prepared to dispute that. She said, 'I wouldn't want a strange man in my house to teach me.' Tommy screamed with laughter. 'You don't know much, Margie. The teachers didn't live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there.' 'And all the kids learned the same thing?' 'Sure, if they were the same ______.'

'But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught ______.' 'Just the same they didn't do it t...

He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn't know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right, and, after an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked. That wasn't so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks in no time. The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie's head. He said to her mother, 'It's not the little girl's fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I've slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite ______.' And he patted Margie's head again.