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| Original Title: | My Posse Don't Do Homework |
| ISBN: | 0312956207 (ISBN13: 9780312956202) |
| Edition Language: | English |
LouAnne Johnson
Paperback | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 3.92 | 1000 Users | 72 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dangerous Minds |
| Author | : | LouAnne Johnson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | August 15th 1995 by St. Martin's Paperbacks (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Education. Autobiography. Memoir. Teaching. Biography. Biography Memoir. Academic. School |
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She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands.
They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who'd been "pushed over the edge." She was told "those kids have tasted blood. They're dangerous."
But LouAnne Johnson had a different idea. Where the school system saw thirty-four unreachable kids, she saw young men and women with intelligence and dreams. When others gave up on them, she broke the rules to give them the best things a teacher can give-hope and belief in themselves. When statistics showed the chances were they'd never graduate, she fought to beat the odds.
This is her remarkable story-and theirs.
If you loved Stand and Deliver, you'll stand up and cheer for LouAnne Johnson and Dangerous Minds.
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Ratings: 3.92 From 1000 Users | 72 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books Dangerous Minds
I decided to read this book after hearing an interview with Johnson on NPRs This American Life. Johnson said her teaching experience wasnt much like Michelle Pfeiffers teaching experience in Dangerous Minds, the movie inspired by Johnsons book. She also said she returned, uncashed, the royalty check from the Dangerous Minds television show, a weekly drama inspired by the movie. Johnson didnt want anything to do with it. And no wonder: The book is unlike the movie and the television show. In theI decided to read this book after hearing an interview with Johnson on NPRs This American Life. Johnson said her teaching experience wasnt much like Michelle Pfeiffers teaching experience in Dangerous Minds, the movie inspired by Johnsons book. She also said she returned, uncashed, the royalty check from the Dangerous Minds television show, a weekly drama inspired by the movie. Johnson didnt want anything to do with it. And no wonder: The book is unlike the movie and the television show. In the
This book is kind of a train wreck of sorts - but here's my review that I wrote for my M.A.T. program. Miss Johnson is a newly hired teacher set with the task of working in a difficult inner city school. I remember going to the movie theatre in middle school and watching Dangerous Minds starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The book goes much more in depth into the curriculum, class room management style, and lives of children in Miss Johnsons classes. I have to say that I was disturbed by some of the
Great story...important to know these kinds of problems. It take a very special person to reach out to others that are having trouble and at the same there there are serious needs that can be helped. My eyes were opened with the characters in this novel...much better than the movie because of greater detail and the fact that I could read secions over, dog-ear the pages if you will. One Last Chance, maybe, but probably not but it is dangerous to play with fire. Much better to address the issues
It's hard not to like a book by a teacher who seems to be able to reach kids who are totally turned off to school. Teaching mostly at-risk but high-potential students of color in the East San Francisco Bay area, Johnson seems to have an incredible gift for teaching. Her book doesn't really deal with the structural/institutional reasons why her students have so many problems, which would have been helpful and added another layer to her story. But this is still an eminently readable and engrossing
Great book and much better than the movie. At times in the movie, Ms. Johnson wasn't portrayed very well, IMO. In the book, she is a strong teacher who reinforces her principles constantly in the classroom.
Dangerous Minds is by far one of my favorite books I've read in long time. It persuaded me quite easily and I was hooked since. To me, it is very interesting reading a story based on troubled students in high school who find a way to improve themselves for the greater good.
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