Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
By Rafe Esquith
By Rafe Esquith
By Rafe Esquith
By Rafe Esquith
Category: Biography & Memoir
Category: Biography & Memoir
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$18.00
Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780143112860
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Jan 18, 2007 | ISBN 9781101201916
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Praise
“Esquith is a modern-day Thoreau, preaching the value of good work, honest self- reflection, and the courage to go one’s own way.”
–Newsday
“Politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade class.”
–Time
“The most interesting and influential classroom teacher in the country.”
–The Washington Post
Table Of Contents
Teach Like Your Hair’s On FirePrologue: Fire in the Classroom
Part One: There’s No Place Like Home
One: Gimme Some Truth
Two: Searching for Level VI
Part Two: The Method
Three: Reading for Life
Four: Writing
Five: Add It Up
Six: We Won’t Get Fooled Again
Seven: What a Wonderful World
Eight: Rocket Man
Nine: Art Lover
Ten: Put Me In, Coach
Eleven: Taxman
Part Three: The Madness
Twelve: Think for Yourself
Thirteen: Celluloid Heroes
Fourteen: Goin’ Mobile
Fifteen: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
Sixteen: Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Seventeen: Will Power
Epilogue: Rest in Peace
Acknowledgments
Appendixes
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