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This book was a wonderful love letter to the English teaching profession. The audiobook is read by the author who spend decades teaching English at vocational high schools and creative writing in New York before he went on to write his famous novels, Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis (which I will now be listening to on audio).
He brought to life the voices of his students in a realistic, nostalgic, but not overly sentimental way.
If I ever have the pleasure of teaching a class to pre-service English teachers, this memoir would made excellent required reading. Through this book you could discuss the role of the teacher, building classroom culture, teacher self-care, writing with your students, classroom management/discipline, going gradeless, and using mentor texts—he was doing all of this in the 1960’s.
He brought to life the voices of his students in a realistic, nostalgic, but not overly sentimental way.
If I ever have the pleasure of teaching a class to pre-service English teachers, this memoir would made excellent required reading. Through this book you could discuss the role of the teacher, building classroom culture, teacher self-care, writing with your students, classroom management/discipline, going gradeless, and using mentor texts—he was doing all of this in the 1960’s.