Great Book! Danza does an excellent job recapping the events that occurred at Northeast High during the time he spent teaching there. Many candid stories and heart-wrenching realizations are included. Working with inner city students, he realized how difficult the teaching career is, and how much...
Our new academic focus, the five-paragraph essay, is alien territory for most of the class. They’re intimidated by writing to begin with, and they can’t understand why anyone would need a thesis statement or topic sentence. At times during this unit, we’d all rather be digging ditches, and to add...