![]() ![]() Chapter 2 is about his own student days in Ireland Chapter 3 describes his college years at New York University, studying to be a teacher and Chapter 4 recounts his days working on the docks around New York before he got his first teaching job. The next three chapters provide background about McCourt’s life before he became a teacher, presented as stories he told his students when they asked about his life and he digressed from the lesson plan. ![]() He makes two mistakes that almost get him fired before his career even begins. Chapter 1 opens with his first couple of days at McKee, in 1958. The first section, entitled “It’s a Long Road to Pedagogy,” covers his first teaching job at McKee Vocational and Technical High School on Staten Island. As such, there’s some overlap with ’Tis, but this book focuses solely on his teaching career. Divided into three parts, Teacher Man chronicles McCourt’s teaching career from his days at New York University studying English to his retirement from Stuyvesant High School in the 1980s. In 'Teacher Man', Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - but one who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. ![]()
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