“Sixteen,” I said. I have forgotten the math question my second-grade teacher,Joyce Cooper asked that day,but I will never forget my_1_.As soon as the number left my mouth,the whole class started_2_.I felt like the _3_person in the world. Mrs. Cooper fixed them with a look. Then she said:“Were all here to _4_.”Once Mrs. Cooper asked us to write a_5_about what we hoped to do in the future. I wrote:“I want to be a _6_like Mrs. Cooper.” She wrote on my report,“You would_7_an ou