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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. While the story was compelling, the writing was a little stilted. It didn't grab me like other memoirs have in the past. The narrative is one that should resonate with teachers everywhere. The fact that this story is still being told on a daily basis is disheartening but one that can change-one teacher at a time. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This page-turner about race, class, educational opportunity and the legacies of American slavery and Jim Crow still playing out in our public schools is exciting as a personal story and engaging as a study of American public education.
Michelle Kuo's memoir, James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, and Eula Biss's essay on teaching in a Harlem public school (including on the morning of September 11, 2001) in her collection Notes from No Man's Land all talk about the pivotal role a teacher is expected to have, did have, and/or could have had in their students' lives. Michelle Kuo's nuanced writing about her student's awakening--which he reaches because she patiently even doggedly provided him the mentoring and the voices he needed to read, well beyond the time of her employment in Teach For America--evokes a spectrum of responses in me: anger, admiration, grief, recognition and shame. It's a plus that she is a writer honest and skilled enough to delineate her own misgivings and bouts of egotism. She doesn't display her young student's trauma for the sake of spectacle.The author, a teacher, describes her time at a rural school and focuses on the time she spent with a particular student, Patrick. Since the author is Asian, this couldn't be described as a White Savior narrative, but it does have some of those overtones. The author also includes background information about the town and the justice system which is interesting. Overall, though, it doesn't really add anything new or fascinating to this branch of literature. I enjoyed reading it, but didn't come away with any more meaning or insight, which was what I expect from this kind of book. Although the story told in this memoir is moving and authentic, the writing was dry and did not compel me through the book. Although I appreciated her research, there are many other books that tell the story of the disadvantaged rural South. I was left wanting to know Patrick and his family better. The author's own immigrant story offered some insights on immigrant parental expectations, but again I would have liked to know the family better. This was trying to be two stories in one and it fell short for me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:“In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The Atlantic A memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and personal awakening. Convinced she can make a difference in the lives of her teenaged students, Michelle Kuo puts her heart into her work, using quiet reading time and guided writing to foster a sense of self in students left behind by a broken school system. Though Michelle loses some students to truancy and even gun violence, she is inspired by some such as Patrick. Fifteen and in the eighth grade, Patrick begins to thrive under Michelle’s exacting attention. However, after two years of teaching, Michelle feels pressure from her parents and the draw of opportunities outside the Delta and leaves Arkansas to attend law school. Then, on the eve of her law-school graduation, Michelle learns that Patrick has been jailed for murder. Feeling that she left the Delta prematurely and determined to fix her mistake, Michelle returns to Helena and resumes Patrick’s education—even as he sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. Every day for the next seven months they pore over classic novels, poems, and works of history. Little by little, Patrick grows into a confident, expressive writer and a dedicated reader galvanized by the works of Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Walt Whitman, W. S. Merwin, and others. In her time reading with Patrick, Michelle is herself transformed, contending with the legacy of racism and the questions of what constitutes a “good” life and what the privileged owe to those with bleaker prospects. “A powerful meditation on how one person can affect the life of another . . . One of the great strengths of Reading with Patrick is its portrayal of the risk inherent to teaching.”—The Seattle Times “[A] tender memoir.”—O: The Oprah Magazine. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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