The Importance Of My Favorite Teacher By John Steinberg

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Teaching is a very difficult thing for some people to do. When I look at a teacher that has made a good lasting impression on me, I appreciate their desire to help kids that go through their classroom door, just like my 6th grade teacher Mrs. Enberg. She made a difference in my life by teaching me respect for people in authority over me and that there are consequences for my actions. One common characteristic that she shared with Hattie M. Steinburg in the “my favorite teacher” essay in the book models for writers (103) Mrs. Enberg was not just a mentoring teacher to me but if you brought her up to a lot of the kids in my class they would more than likely come up with many memories that were both good and bad. Now I can’t say that all of my peers enjoyed her class but most did. I can …show more content…

Well, where would she have gotten without the help of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan? She probably would have not gotten very far in her education. But teacher Anne was diligent and never gave up on Helen. Helen later wrote an essay that was written into the book Models for Writers, in this essay she describes the day that she met her new teacher. In that essay she wrote this, “Earlier in that day we had a tussle over “m-u-g” and “w-a-t-e-r” she was trying to impress on me that “m-u-g” is mug and “w-a-t-e-r” is water, but I persisted in confounding the two.... we walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Someone was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly.” (Keller, 86) this relates to Mrs. Enberg because she never gave up on us kids. Every single one of us she showed the same persistence that Anne showed to

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