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<p><p>jim Burke Invited Readers Of The San Francisco Chronicle To Write To My High School Students About Your Experiences With Books.... The Best Of The More Than One Thousand Pages Of Letters Are Collected In This Funny, Poignant, And Inspiring Book.</p><h3>voya</h3><p>frustrated By His High School Students' Claims That Books Have Little Value, English Teacher Burke Sent A Letter To The Editor Of The San Francisco Chronicle Asking People To Write To His Students About Their Experiences With Books. More Than Four Hundred Letters Resulted. Burke Gathers Almost Fifty Of Them Here, Interspersing The Letters With Quotations About Reading. In Prose That Ranges From Haltingly Written To Beautifully Crafted, The Letters Come From Respondents As Varied As High School Esl Students, Lawyers, Cattle Ranchers, And Helicopter Pilots. An English Teacher Writes A Long Story About How Comic Books Led Him To Love Classic Texts, And A Second Grader Announces, I Like Books Because I Can Read Them. One Correspondent Extols The Virtues Of Keeping A Journal; A Prisoner Tells How He Became A Poet; A Judge Argues The Link Between Reading And Reasoning; And A Teacher Sends A Copy Of A Letter That Roald Dah
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Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- [compiled by] Jim Burke
- Publisher
- Heinemann, 361 Hanover Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801-3912 ($12.50). Tel: 603-431-7894; Web site: <http://www.heinemann.com>
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780325001340
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Reference, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (27 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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