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Informationen zum Autor Michelle Kuo taught English at an alternative school in the Arkansas Delta for two years. After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked at a nonprofit for undocumented immigrants in Oakland, California, on a Skadden Fellowship, with a focus on tenants' and workers' rights. Currently she teaches courses on race, law, and society at the American University of Paris. Her first novel, Reading with Patrick, is her personal story of teaching a student who lost his way. Klappentext As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that's when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers. Zusammenfassung The true story of a teacher, a boy who lost his way and the redemptive power of books Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - i: IntroductionUnit - 1: Part IChapter - 1: A Raisin in the SunChapter - 2: The Free WriteChapter - 3: The Fire Next TimeUnit - 2: Part IIChapter - 4: The Death of Ivan IlyichUnit - 3: Part IIIChapter - 5: Crime and PunishmentChapter - 6: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeChapter - 7: He Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenChapter - 8: Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassChapter - 9: I Have Read Everything on This Paper (The Guilty Plea)Chapter - 10: To Paula in Late SpringUnit - 4: Part IVChapter - 11: Easter MorningSection - ii: Author's NoteAcknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgments ...
