[PDF] School Blues eBook

Author : Daniel Pennac
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857387642

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Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever. In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system. School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.

Author : Lou Kassem
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 1987-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0380703637

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Twelve-year-old Cindy begins seventh grade with a certain amount of apprehension, but discovers that her new friends and experiences are thoroughly enjoyable.

Author : Julie Danneberg
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1580890466

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During the last week of school, the students in Mrs. Hartwell's class try to come up with the perfect present for their teacher.

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803294639

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An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.

Author : Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807779784

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Anne Dyson confronts race and racism head-on with this ethnographic study of a child’s efforts to belong—to be a child among children. Follow the journey of a small Black child, Ta’Von, as he moves from a culturally inclusive preschool through the early grades in a school located in a majority white neighborhood. Readers will see Ta’Von encountering obstacles but finding agency and joy through writing and music-making, especially his love of the blues. Most attempts at desegregating schools are studied by reducing individual children to demographic statistics and test scores. This book, instead, provides a child’s perspective on challenges to classroom inclusion. Ta’Von’s journey demonstrates that it is within children’s peer worlds—formed in response to institutional policies and practices like desegregation initiatives, standardized testing, and a curricular focus on so-called “basic literacy skills”—that inequity becomes part of the experience of childhood. This book examines policies about literacy testing and teaching, including the potential power of the written word and of the arts. “Few researchers have had a career so embedded inside the lives of children in a classroom context as Anne Haas Dyson. This book should be on every literacy researcher’s shelf. It is a culmination of years of Dyson’s relentless fight against deficit framings of children and the deep inequalities that continue to persist in the world.” —Jennifer Rowsell, professor of literacies and social innovation, University of Bristol

Author : Angela C. Santomero
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category : School stories
ISBN : 9780613243841

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Preschoolers get to help Blue decide the best way to handle tricky situations and more in this instructive story that will help point little ones on the path toward cooperation, learning and sharing

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803244460

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An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.

Author : Robbie Couch
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1534477853

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Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, heartfelt, and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it’s Us? and I Wish You All the Best. Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it. What better way to start living loud and proud than by pulling off the gayest promposal Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen? Then, Sky’s plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He’s fully prepared to drop out and skip town altogether—until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by turning his thirty-day promposal countdown into a school-wide hunt to expose the e-blast perpetrator. But what happens at the end of the thirty days? Will Sky get to keep his hard-won visibility? Or will his small-town blues stop him from being his true self?

Author : Bruce Ingram
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : High school students
ISBN : 9781944962340

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Ninth Grade Blues follows four teens through the adventures and misadventures of the first year of high school. Interweaving first person stories are told by: Luke: a shy, poorly dressed boy from the wrong side of the tracks. But he has hidden talents in science -- and he is even appealing to some girls. Elly: sociable and friendly, Elly worries about getting a boy to like her. She has frizzy hair, and a few excess pounds. However, she is also a top notch student. Elly has her life mapped out, all the way through a big church wedding and a house in the suburbs. Marcus: a freshman superstar, Marcus plays football and basketball at the varsity level and has his sights on a D-I college scholarship. He worries about having to choose between the NBA and the NFL. Mia: a smart, dedicated girl who gets straight A's. Her Mexican-American parents are intent on matching her up with a nice Hispanic boy. But Mia and Luke begin studying together, and very soon, Mia develops other opinions.

Author : Brian Robertson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781565121379

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This little book transcends geographical, social, and economic boundaries to search the heart and soul of the blues, looking for rules to live by, hope for the downtrodden, cautionary tales for the good times, and truths that "hurt so good". Sometimes, you just gotta be blue. But, as this book goes to show, that's okay--because you're never alone.