Topic： How did Cliff Evans' death affect Jean E. Mizer, one of his teachers and the writer of "Cipher in the Snow"?
The following points should be covered.
•What she was asked to do after Cliff Evans' death
•What she found about Cliff Evans
•What resolution she made
The day Cliff Evans died. Jean Mizer was to go and inform his family of the news, to close his file and write his obituary for the school paper.
In the course， she found Cliff s stepfather didn't like the boy. and that he was a quiet and lonely boy at home. At school, from the third grade on, he made poor grades, and his teachers believed that he was a slow learner and uncooperative student. Besides, Cliff was never involved in school activities, and he had no friends. Mizer realized that Cliff had been a lonely and unhappy boy who had nothing to live for and had given up striving for anything. She also concluded that school had made what he was.
Throughout Cliff s funeral Mizer felt sad. Then and there, she made up her mind that she would never allow a single student of hers to think himself/herself into a failure as Cliff had done.
