Read this student summary of act 1 of The Miracle Worker. In act 1, twenty-year-old Annie Sullivan is preparing to leave her school and become a teacher herself. She is bidding farewell to Anagnos, her mentor, and to many young girls who have been her students and friends. The action slows when Annie and Anagnos have a discussion, and the play becomes boring. Then Anagnos and the girls present her with gifts, and she is appreciative and sentimental. She voices some concerns about leaving Perkins.

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In act 1, twenty-year-old Annie Sullivan is preparing to leave her school and become a teacher herself.
She is bidding farewell to Anagnos, her mentor, and to many young girls who have been her students and friends.
The action slows when Annie and Anagnos have a discussion, and the play becomes boring.
Then Anagnos and the girls present her with gifts, and she is appreciative and sentimental.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.