South of Heaven: Welcome to High School at the End of the Twentieth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385425295 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 365 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pretty good, pretty accurate I am a 1993 graduate of Lakewood High School in Pinellas County, Florida -- same county as Largo, with which I was fairly familiar during my three years at Lakewood. South of Heaven was initially appealing simply because I knew (sometimes tangentially, sometimes directly) a few of the people in the book, and because Tom French was a minor celebrity in our high school journalism class. It was therefore many years before I could read it with some equanimity and objectivity.Ten yea. "So easy to read, it's hard to believe it is non-fiction!" according to A Customer. This is a true story about a journalist's year in an American high school. It reads, however, like a novel. I became so attached to these characters that I could not put the book down! Many thanks to the author for providing an epilogue describing what these students are doing now.Despite its easy-to-read style, this book is inherently depressing. While the students are extremely likable and the teachers well-meaning and capable, the problems facing these students seem to be ove. A must-read for every high school teacher Dianne Smith (dsmith@teacher.esc4.com) I had the opportunity to hear Thomas French speak at a scholastic journalism convention in October, 1998 where he held the audience of teachers and teenagers spellbound as he recounted the year he spent documenting the lives of several students in a Florida high school. The book was every bit as powerful as the talk he gave. For every high school teacher who has ever felt the frustration with dealing with students whose first priority is not school, this book offers a special in
An award-winning journalist writes about the year he spent in a Florida high school, in a shocking look at young America, as seen through the eyes of five students whom he followed closely. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
. From Publishers Weekly Drawing from the year he spent at a Florida high school, journalist French probes into the lives of five contemporary American teenagers. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc