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"Waiting for the Eagle to Fly: With Nappy Chin, Hoppalong Geech, and Big Momma Rock Undercover" - Les Payne - Newsday
". . .As I entered the 17-man migrant camp the first day, I had primed myself to respond to my new name, 'Bubba.' I kept in mimd my briefing on how to function and stay alive. The instructions were given to me by an ex-migrant, a hefty man with a barrell belly and a rolling, gravel voice. With passionless, staccato cadence he told me: 'Drink wine wit' 'em. Shoot craps. Challenge 'em, tell 'em, look man, I'll knock your goddamm head off. Curse at 'em, all the time. But don't mess wit' their women, or you'll get your throat cut'. . ."
Newsday 1970-07-11
VI-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday
" . . . After I had decided to leave teaching, and after the school year had ended, I no longer felt self-conscious about looking into the home lives of my students. . . . "
Newsday and New York Newsday 1989-12-03
Postscript: "My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday
"Five of Sachar's eighth-grade math students met last week with a New York Newsday editor to talk about their experiences in her classroom. The students, one from each of the five classes Sachar taught, were: Ilka Bent, Sabura Alexander, Karim Licorish, Fredeline Amedee and Natalie Rodgers. They were not students profiled by Sachar in the series.
Newsday and New York Newsday 1989-12-06
VIII-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday
"One shelf in my den has workbooks. Another has bags of smiley-face stickers, and another has dice and protractors. Next to my computer is a filing cabinet filled with puzzles I used in my year as a teacher at Walt Whitman Intermediate School in Flatbush, Brooklyn. "They were my teaching supplies, and I haven't been able to throw them away. After teaching math for a year, I decided not to return. But I still feel like a teacher, and I often imagine I'll go back to the classroom someday. . . . "
Newsday and New York Newsday 1989-12-05
VII-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday
" . . . I scanned the rows of students. Scattered about were several dozen who didn't know their times tables, couldn't write a simple essay or couldn't understand a short passage in an elementary textbook. Yet, in less than two months, they would be adorned in caps and gowns and graduated to high school. I felt like I was watching a heinous lie. . . . "
Newsday and New York Newsday 1989-12-04
IV-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday
"Like many teachers, Nobile's school day didn't end when the last bell rang. She took classes after school to work her way up the salary scale. In New York City, teachers must earn one master's degree within five years to retain their jobs, and they must earn a second master's degree to get to the top of the salary scale. . . . "
Newsday and New York Newsday 1989-11-30