Introduction of the Text( organization and development(1) The text is a short and amusing story which vividly describes how a fledgling substitute teacher tries to keep a class of unruly boys under control. The story has an artistic outset---direct quotation of the headmasters instruction which relates to the title---the thumb, a pun of double meanings The body of the text is a detailed account of the interaction between the teacher and the students---the teacher, timid and incompetent tries all his means to bring the class into order while the students mischievous and arrogant, disregard all classroom disciplines The story ends with a climax of the conflict in which the young teacher takes up a book on Chaucer, which he intends to read to the class but is mistaken for the Bible---a proof of the giant boys as intellectual dwarfsIntroduction of the Text(1) organization and development(1) ▪ The text is a short and amusing story which vividly describes how a fledgling substitute teacher tries to keep a class of unruly boys under control. The story has an artistic outset---direct quotation of the headmaster’s instruction which relates to the title---the thumb, a pun of double meanings. ▪ The body of the text is a detailed account of the interaction between the teacher and the students---the teacher, timid and incompetent, tries all his means to bring the class into order while the students, mischievous and arrogant, disregard all classroom disciplines. ▪ The story ends with a climax of the conflict in which the young teacher takes up a book on Chaucer, which he intends to read to the class but is mistaken for the Bible---a proof of the giant boys as intellectual dwarfs