Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide
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Exercise 7<br />
For as long as anyone could remember, Rockland Middle School had great school dances. This year’s<br />
Dance Committee needed all the help it could get to keep up the tradition.<br />
As Committee Chairpersons, Denise Dunlap and Jonah Clark had to make decisions and get<br />
everyone working quickly and efficiently. There was certainly no time for disagreements between<br />
them. But just one week before the fall Welcome Dance, that is exactly what happened.<br />
Jonah phoned Denise to ask her to help call the people in charge of decorations, refreshments,<br />
tickets, and clean-up. Denise had just finished talking to each of them at school that day, and<br />
thought Jonah wanted her to call them again. She didn’t think that was necessary. “They know<br />
what to do,” she responded with annoyance.<br />
Jonah felt angry and said, “I was just making a suggestion!” “No, you weren’t,” blurted Denise.<br />
“You just like to order everybody around, including me!” “What?!” said Jonah. “Wait a minute-no,<br />
I don’t. But we’ve got to talk to these people to see if they’re organized for next week. I’ll call them<br />
if you can’t.” He hung up the phone in anger.<br />
Denise began to cry. She didn’t want to, but the tears just came. Her older sister Liza came in and<br />
asked her what was wrong. She tried to explain. Liza asked, “Did Jonah know you already talked to<br />
everyone?” “I think so,” said Denise. “He was right there at lunch when I was talking to<br />
everybody.” “Well, maybe he didn’t,” suggested Liza. “Why don’t you call him back?”<br />
Denise decided to take her sister’s suggestion. There was no way she and Jonah could make it<br />
through a whole year of planning if they didn’t get along.<br />
Sure enough, Jonah didn’t know she’d talked to everyone, and both of them realized that if they<br />
were going to work together, they really needed to be very clear with each other to avoid problems<br />
and remain friends.<br />
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