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I'd like to apologize to every teacher I ever had : my year as a rookie teacher at Northeast High / Tony Danza.
Van Pelt Library LA2317.D26 A3 2012
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LIBRA LA2317.D26 A3 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danza, Tony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Danza, Tony.
- High school teachers--United States--Biography.
- First year teachers--United States--Biography.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- First year teachers.
- High school teachers.
- United States.
- Teaching--Anecdotes.
- Teaching.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Archetype, [2012]
- Summary:
- Himself a "discipline problem" in high school, actor Tony Danza discusses his experiences during a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Philadelphia's Northeast High School, exploring the difficulties and joys of keeping today's technologically savvy and often alienated students engaged.
- Contents:
- First semester. You're fired, go teach! ; Ignorance is no excuse ; Do now ; The half-sandwich club ; Making the grade ; Never smile before Christmas
- Second semester. Field tripping ; Poetic justice ; Our Atticus ; Spring fever ; Finals ; If...
- Epilogue.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0307887863
- 9780307887887
- 030788788X
- OCLC:
- 785721813
- Publisher Number:
- 99950365215
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