Author: Samuel Lee Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Grove Family Letters
Author: Samuel Lee Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Letters to a Teacher
Author: Sam Pickering
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555847218
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Inspirational reflections on the art of teaching from the acclaimed essayist and teacher who inspired Dead Poets Society. Sam Pickering has been teaching for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Pickering went on to teach at Dartmouth and the University of Connecticut, where he has been for twenty-five years. His acclaimed essays have established him as a nimble thinker with a unique way of enlightening us through the quotidian. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always illuminating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of schools and universities. His observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth, and are leavened throughout with stories—whether from the family breakfast table, his revelatory nature walks, or his time teaching in Australia and Syria. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all, dynamic. “Perhaps the most poetic–even elegiac writing about education published in the past year.” —Library Journal
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555847218
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Inspirational reflections on the art of teaching from the acclaimed essayist and teacher who inspired Dead Poets Society. Sam Pickering has been teaching for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Pickering went on to teach at Dartmouth and the University of Connecticut, where he has been for twenty-five years. His acclaimed essays have established him as a nimble thinker with a unique way of enlightening us through the quotidian. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always illuminating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of schools and universities. His observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth, and are leavened throughout with stories—whether from the family breakfast table, his revelatory nature walks, or his time teaching in Australia and Syria. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all, dynamic. “Perhaps the most poetic–even elegiac writing about education published in the past year.” —Library Journal
Affection
Author: Peter H. Judd
Publisher: Peter Haring Judd
ISBN: 0976296322
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Publisher: Peter Haring Judd
ISBN: 0976296322
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Letters o the Wordsorth Family
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Letters of the Wordsworth Family
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
Author: Mrs. Darwin Litchfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Letters of the Wordworths family from 1787-1855
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
What We Inherit
Author: Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Publisher: Unnamed Press
ISBN: 9781951213077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A beautiful amalgam of memoir, travelogue, and investigative report that moves with the propulsive forward energy of a thriller. A haunting chronicle of loss and redemption." --Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton In the wake of her mother's death, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led "Secret War" in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the rules of engagement forever. In 1943, 19-year-old Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing in action for months, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and a march across the Alps before returning home. Ed's eldest son and namesake, Edwin "Jack," follows his father into the Air Force. But on the night of March 29, 1972, Jack's plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed's past comes roaring into the present. In 2009, Ed's granddaughter, Jessica Pearce Rotondi, is grieving her mother's death when she stumbles across declassified CIA documents, letters, and maps that reveal her family's decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is Rotondi's story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather's 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his son. An excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national scale, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father's refusal to be silenced and a daughter's quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen alive, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has haunted her family for generations--and the destructive impact of a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war.
Publisher: Unnamed Press
ISBN: 9781951213077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A beautiful amalgam of memoir, travelogue, and investigative report that moves with the propulsive forward energy of a thriller. A haunting chronicle of loss and redemption." --Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton In the wake of her mother's death, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led "Secret War" in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the rules of engagement forever. In 1943, 19-year-old Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing in action for months, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and a march across the Alps before returning home. Ed's eldest son and namesake, Edwin "Jack," follows his father into the Air Force. But on the night of March 29, 1972, Jack's plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed's past comes roaring into the present. In 2009, Ed's granddaughter, Jessica Pearce Rotondi, is grieving her mother's death when she stumbles across declassified CIA documents, letters, and maps that reveal her family's decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is Rotondi's story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather's 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his son. An excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national scale, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father's refusal to be silenced and a daughter's quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen alive, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has haunted her family for generations--and the destructive impact of a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war.