Teacher Man: A Memoir

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By his own account, Frank McCourt was one of the greenest, least prepared, most intimidated men in the world the day he confronted 35 disenchanted Staten Island adolescents in his first English class in 1967. On that morning, he made himself into a story, and students were paying attention. Over the course of many years, Frank finds his own voice by telling stories that would keep an adolescent engaged. He discovers where his loyalties lie - with students, not principals; what's wrong with allegedly classless American culture; and why he will always understand an underdog.

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And that, has made all the difference."Teacher Man" is a book that will surely resonate with anyone,who,like "moi", has ever experienced life as a high school teacher. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than "Angela's Ashes", along came "'Tis". But what of those who have never embraced the profession. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than "'Tis", along came "Teacher Man".In "Teacher Man", McCourt is no longer haunted by the images of his dismal childhood in Limerick. His vision is no longer obscured by all those "dark clouds" that were ever a part of his being in the other memoirs as he endeavored to find his niche.In "Teacher Man" he is totally immersed in the sometimes chaotic, sometimes enchanting, sometimes frustrating but always challenging world of a classroom filled with that most curious of creatures: the adolescent.In that world, he not only finds his voice, he finds his heart, he finds his soul,he finds his passion. To that I would respond that "Teacher Man" will also resonate with anyone who has ever been a high school student. And weren't we all.

I liked his other books much more. I thought this book would be stories about teaching and his individual students' struggles to learn, his relationships with them, etc. Instead, it seemed to be just a platform to tell more stories of his life, in that he would tell his life stories to his students, because the students wanted to hear stories rather than the subject he was teaching. It wasn't really what I was expecting and I believe he used most of his best stories of his childhood and youth in the first two books.

I have read Angela's Ashes and just finished the Teacher Man. He made me laugh and made me cry. Love his style of writing.

I thoughly enjoyed reading this book, and would probably send for more books of this kind in the future. DC

I loved Angel's Ashes. He started to, and had a few poignant moments but it wasn't till the very when he seemed to begin to connect with this students and that's really what teaching is all about, isn't it. I thought Tis was pretty good, too but Teacher Man did not move me. I kept waiting the whole book for him to figure it out. It never grabbed me.