A high school teacher with terminal brain cancer undertakes a cross-country journey to reunite with former students and learn whether he made a difference in their lives, exploring the importance of such universal priorities as love, family, and friendship.
What truly matters in life? David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while shar…
In this memoir, former teacher David Menasche, blind and having mobility and vision issues from cancer, recorded his travel across the United States visiting old students.
What truly matters in life? David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while shar…
Teacher man: a memoir
by Moline Public Library (Ill.), McCourt, Frank, Hall-Bennett, Vanessa
In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs an…
The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom, and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.
In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs an…
In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs an…
In this tribute to teachers everywhere, the writer records the trials, triumphs, and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, Frank McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, sin…
"Rundown, vermin-infested buildings; rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems; children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and this book tells the heroic stories of …
"Rundown, vermin-infested buildings; rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems; children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and this book tells the heroic stories of …
The book reveals the fate of an extraordinary person - a Germanist, a theatrologist, and Irena Veisaitė, the long-time chairwoman of the Open Society Fund. The dialogues of a past researcher and a person reflecting on their own experiences open up a life-filled story of one life…