Miss Stricken handled the big payoff at the end of each period and at the 
end of each unit. She stormed in to explain what conclusion they were being led 
to and to make sure that all of them got it. She also had a way of lunging 
predatorily into the classroom and rapping the knuckles of any girl who had 
been whispering, making faces at the teachers, passing notes, doodling, 
woolgathering, fidgeting, scratching, nose-picking, sighing, or slumping.