Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander wrote this book from their own practices to describe a method of achieving meaningful and sustaining success...moreRosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander wrote this book from their own practices to describe a method of achieving meaningful and sustaining success in one's personal, creative, professional, etc. lives. The book breaks it down in an equally humorous and earnest tone through twelve practices and frameworks to help explain.
I enjoyed this book greatly and can't wait to retell some of the anecdotes included in the book. (less)
Father Greg Boyle recounts a few anecdotes working with gang members and Homeboy Industries. The stories are funny, the Father curses quite a bit and...moreFather Greg Boyle recounts a few anecdotes working with gang members and Homeboy Industries. The stories are funny, the Father curses quite a bit and the stories all emphasize the importance of compassion.
This book is assigned reading for a local high school so I had to go take a read at it. I was definitely misty eyed and laughed out loud for some of the jokes. I needed some help with the pocho Spanish and used this: http://www.brophyprep.org/docs/summer...
First-year English teacher Erin Gruwell set out to teach to at-risk students in culturally diverse school in Long Beach, California. The book is organ...moreFirst-year English teacher Erin Gruwell set out to teach to at-risk students in culturally diverse school in Long Beach, California. The book is organized as diary entries from many different student authors and bookended by Ms. Gruwell. The students describe their lives and the growing they went through to become Freedom Writers and agents of social change.
This story glosses over Ms. Gruwell's struggles with learning to teach this class, but rather sets her students in center stage. The students detail their whirlwind experience traveling to Washington DC, meeting Zlata Filipovic, Steven Speilberg, etc. This is an amazing story about the powers of not selling anyone student short and the restorative powers of writing.(less)
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