Frank McCourt's pedagogy involves the students taking responsibility for their own learning, especially in his first school, McKee Vocational and Technical High School, in New York. On the first day he nearly gets fired for eating a sandwich, and the second day he nearly gets fired for joking that in Ireland, people go out with sheep after a student asks them if Irish people date. Much of his early teaching involves telling anecdotes about his childhood in Ireland, which were covered in his earlier books Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. McCourt then taught English as a Second Language and took some African American students to a production of Hamlet. He talks about when he was training as a teacher and didn't know anything about George Santayana, but was able to give a well-prepared lesson on the war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Other highlights include his connection between how a pen works and how a sentence works (in explaining subjects and grammar, an area which he struggled with himself) and his use of realia like the students' excuse notes and cookbooks. He taught from the time he was twenty-seven and continued for thirty years. He spent most of his teaching career at Stuyvesant High School, where he taught English and Creative Writing. During the time of the book McCourt went to Trinity College to try to take his doctorate, but he ended up leaving his first wife because of the strain.
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Francis McCourt
Frank McCourt foi um escritor e professor estadunidense que em 1997 ganhou o prêmio Pulitzer com o livro "As Cinzas de Ângela". Nasceu em Nova York e cresceu na cidade de Limerick, na Irlanda. Depois de um infância beirando a completa miséria, numa casa com um pai alcoólatra, em uma sociedade extremamente católica-conservadora, McCourt retornou aos Estados Unidos quando tinha 19 anos. Logo em seguida conseguiu uma vaga na Universidade de Nova York. Tornou-se professor de inglês na escola Stuyvesant em Nova Iorque. Recebeu o Prêmio Pulitzer e o National Book Award pelo seu livro de memórias As Cinzas de Ângela (Angela´s Ashes), que foi adaptado para o cinema. Também foi autor de 'Tis. Morreu em 2009.
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