Detailed Example of Mr. Escalante's Teaching (from Madision G, for Group 3)

During a night class when Mr. Escalante was teaching Latin@* adults to speak English, he excused himself from the room when he began to experience some chest pain. The pain turned into a minor heart attack, which had the teacher fumbling down a staircase and finally lying on the ground. In the next scene, at a hospital, a doctor concluded that the heart attack was the result of stress from his multiple teaching responsibilities. Mr. Escalante's wife wanted him to follow the doctor's advice and not teach for a long time. When his wife left the room, Mr. Escalante grabbed a piece of paper with the hospital's information on it and wrote out various algorithms, then asked his nurse what time she would be getting out of work. The next scene showed that very paper being passed around the room by his students, which allowed them to continue learning at their current level instead of whatever their substitute would lower the lesson difficulty to. During the following scene, the substitute teacher had his back turned to one of the classroom doors, through which Mr. Escalante snuck over to one end of the classroom to announce that he would still be teaching them.