Article 33: The best teacher
I have had a lot of teachers. Some of them were good, and some of them were boring.
There is one teacher whom I remember very well. He is the best teacher that I ever had.
His name was mr Alban. He was a history teacher.
History is not my favorite subject. I don't really enjoy history a lot.
When I was in mr Alban'S class, he made history seem exciting. He was more of an actor than a teacher.
If he was describing a war, he would make us feel all the emotions that the soldiers and their families would have felt.
We could almost hear the guns firing and the people shouting.
He would paint a picture in our minds that was very vivid.
When I had a history test in his class, I didn't have to study much.
I would remember every word that he had said.
I would see him doing the actions that went along with his stories. He was very animated.
He would shout out orders as if he was a general, or he would speak softly and reverently when describing the death of a great hero.
The most important thing that I learned from mr Alban was that I did really like history.
I just thought that I didn't like it because most people had made it dull by just reading from the textbooks.
History is not just a series of dates and dull facts. History is what really happened.
History is real life. All the historical figures had real families and emotions.
They weren't just fictional people.
After I took history from mr Alban, I realized that I really did have an interest in it.
He was my favorite teacher, and I will always be grateful to him for making me aware of just how interesting history really is