Books Read From June 1, 2007 to May 23, 2008
Submitted by n2lect2el on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 02:52
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- Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (5th edition)--Tom E.C. Smith, et al
- Motivation and Personality--Abrahm H. Maslow
- The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher--Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong (July 25)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows--J. K. Rowling (July 31)
- A Framework for Understanding Poverty--Ruby K. Payne. (August 8)
- See Them Die--Ed McBain (August 25)
- The Golden Compass--Philip Pullman (Aug. 30)
- Lord Valentine's Castle--Robert Silverberg (Sept. 9)
- The Black Ice--Michael Connelly (Sept. 16)
- Fahrenheit 451--Ray Bradbury (2nd time)
- The Scarlet Letter (3rd time)
- Teachers: Straight Talk From The Trenches--Susan Dichter
- Sick Puppy--Carl Hiaasen
- The Dame--Richard Stark
- The Art of Happiness at Work--Howard C. Cutler and the Dalai Lama
- My Education: A Book of Dreams--William S. Burroughs
This is the "year" that I tried to be a high school English teacher. I don't think I will be doing that again. 16 books! 4 of these were part of my coursework for my alternative certification program to be a high school teacher (I have a Master's degree in English plus 70 additional graduate hours and I taught college for 7 years as a graduate student, and you are telling me I'm not qualified to teach high school???), 2 were books I re-read because I was teaching them, and 2 were books I read because I was in a state of total desperation. What a complete waste of my life this year was. All I did this year was fight with kids all day, come home and go crazy and be stressed out for a few hours, pass out and sleep for about 9 hours (when I could sleep at all, that is), and then get up and go back to fighting with kids all day. The moral of this story is that if you value your own sanity, never, never, never try to teach high school. You won't do anything but fight with kids all day.