练习题 · 英文原题 · SEL-WR-TST-08
Things I Know Now
Your Year 6 class is making a book of reflections to read again on your last day of high school. Each student writes about one moment from primary school that changed the way they think.
Write a reflection about your moment for the class book.
In your reflection, you could:
- describe the moment so a reader can picture it
- explain what you thought before and after
- say how it might help you in the future
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The Day I Put My Hand Up
For most of primary school, I believed one thing very firmly: clever people do not ask questions. They just know. So whenever I was confused, I nodded, copied the board and hoped nobody would notice. It worked for years. Then came Year 5, and a maths lesson that changed my mind.
I can still picture it. It was a hot Tuesday afternoon, the ceiling fans were whirring and Mrs Lambert had covered the whiteboard in fractions. She was explaining why two quarters and four eighths are the same. Everyone around me seemed to be nodding. I stared at my book and felt my cheeks burning. I had no idea what she meant, and I was sure I was the only one.
Then a boy called Hamish, who sat two rows in front of me, put up his hand and said, "Sorry, I'm totally lost. Can you go back to the start?" I waited for someone to laugh. Nobody did. Instead, three other people said, "Me too." That was when I realised I wasn't alone at all. We had all been pretending, each of us sure we were the only one.
Mrs Lambert smiled and said something I have never forgotten: "A question is not a sign that you're behind. It's a sign that you're thinking." She went back to the beginning, and this time I asked a question too. My voice wobbled, but by the end of the lesson I actually understood. It felt like a door had swung open.
Before that day, I thought asking for help made you look weak. Now I think it is one of the bravest things you can do in a classroom. Hiding confusion does not make it go away. It just lets it grow, quietly, until it becomes a wall.
Since then, I have asked questions in maths, in science and even at swimming lessons when I could not get my breathing right. Each time, it has been a little easier. I have also tried to be like Hamish for other people, putting my hand up first so they don't have to.
When I read this again on my last day of high school, I hope I am still the kind of person who puts my hand up. High school will be bigger, louder and probably a lot more confusing. There will be new subjects, new teachers and a hundred things I don't know yet. That is okay. I know now that not knowing is where learning starts.