I liked this book even more than "Learn Me Good". I am sure that Mr. Woodson cares about his students in both books but it is even more apparent in this second one. I am not a teacher but I know many teachers and they have all told me similar stories. As with Pearson's first book some of these...
Jack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job. Now, as a teacher, he faces new challenges. Conference calls have been replaced with parent conferences. Product testing has given way to standardized testing. Instead of business cards, Jack now passes ...
But what seems clear is that after Margaret’s death, Jack’s life was ruled by a conscious effort not to succumb to the weaknesses which had made his father’s life a misery. This made him very much his father’s opposite. He lacked his father’s good looks and his father’s vanity. Distrusting charm ...
‘Over £4,000 straight profit on our first year’s operations. That’s after allowing for depreciation on the aircraft, wages, petrol, every jolly thing. Biggles and Co. has quite a healthy surplus at the bank.’ ‘Wages of sin!’ laughed Biggles. ‘Only one thing rather worries me. What are we going to...
A day that began at 6.30 A.M. with the bell clanging on the landing and ended when lights went out at 9.30 P.M. From 5 November 1956, a wet Friday, when the gates of Wandsworth Gaol closed behind the black Maria bringing the latest batch of prisoners down from the Central Criminal Court, this bec...
There was no mistaking the nostalgia with which he talked about those far-off days. ‘So,’ he concluded, ‘I like to think that I'm the man who saved the Bank of Monte Carlo.’ ‘But was it really useful to the British Secret Service? Did it work the way that Maddox planned?’ Bond laughed good-humour...