What is included with this book?
Foreword | p. 11 |
With Special Thanks | p. 15 |
How Did I Do It? | p. 17 |
A Note to Teachers | p. 19 |
Introduction | p. 21 |
My Frantic First Year at Northern Secondary School | p. 23 |
On the Run to Fourteen Classrooms | p. 25 |
The Day the F-Word Popped Up in Class | p. 27 |
My First In-Class Movie Was a Disaster! | p. 29 |
The Day I Fell Asleep in Class | p. 32 |
Cartoon Maps on the Blackboard | p. 34 |
Three Cheers for Jim McQueen | p. 39 |
Keeping Lessons Fast and Lively | p. 41 |
She Was Only Fired Twice! | p. 44 |
My Next Nine Years at Northern | p. 45 |
The Man with His Face on Our Ten-Dollar Bill | p. 47 |
Engine Transplants Before Heart Transplants | p. 49 |
Her Dog Had Fleas | p. 52 |
History Teacher Pumps Gas at Local Station | p. 53 |
Effective Writing for Nineteen Years | p. 56 |
A Turkey Almost Landed on the Moon | p. 59 |
"Flushed With Pride" | p. 60 |
"Cooks, Gluttons, and Gourmets" | p. 62 |
Julius Caesar Was in My Class! Cleopatra, Too! | p. 63 |
Pronouncing Ancient Greek Names | p. 67 |
Where Has Ancient History Gone? | p. 68 |
The Story of Henry Heme | p. 69 |
Master of Originality | p. 71 |
Marking … Marking … Marking … | p. 74 |
The Great Bicycle Race | p. 78 |
Robin Hood at Massey Hall | p. 80 |
Reading the Dictionary One Page a Day | p. 82 |
Catching a Streaker… | p. 89 |
See This Piece of Chalk? | p. 91 |
Spelling Mistakes | p. 92 |
September a Special Month | p. 97 |
Memory Power | p. 99 |
My Twenty-One Years at North Toronto Collegiate Institute | p. 103 |
Arriving at North Toronto | p. 105 |
Are You "Sesquilingual?" | p. 106 |
Letter from Pierre Berton | p. 108 |
Two Visits to Stonehenge in One Day | p. 110 |
"StayinÆ Alive" in the Stone Age! | p. 112 |
Hi-Jinx 1979 | p. 114 |
"See You Later, Exfiltrator!" | p. 117 |
Five Hundred Years of New Words | p. 118 |
Get Ready for a "Sherkout"! | p. 121 |
Elvis: Live from the Grave! | p. 127 |
Were You Born in Farch? | p. 130 |
Memorizing "High Flight" and Other Poems | p. 131 |
Where Do You Come From? | p. 134 |
From Model T Ford to Mustang Convertible | p. 136 |
The Grapes of Wrath | p. 140 |
Did Columbus Really "Discover" America? | p. 143 |
Guidance Report by Air Mail | p. 145 |
From Robert E. Lee to Lee Iacocca | p. 147 |
Interview Your Grandparents | p. 149 |
Three Students "Moon" a School Assembly | p. 151 |
Rock Around the Block! | p. 152 |
A Most Unusual Question | p. 155 |
Voting on Date and Format of Test | p. 156 |
"You're Giving Me a Zero?" | p. 159 |
"I Hear You're Writing a Screenplay!" | p. 160 |
History Jokes I Told in Class | p. 163 |
Alexander the Great Died of a Fever… | p. 165 |
Wardrobe Changes in Thirty-One Years | p. 166 |
An Italian Motorcycle in My History Class | p. 169 |
High School Reunion in 1966 | p. 172 |
Reciting the Alphabet Backwards | p. 176 |
How the Future Became the Past | p. 179 |
When I Was in High School … | p. 181 |
No Smoking! | p. 182 |
Three Magic Words | p. 184 |
My First Call on a Cellphone | p. 186 |
My Farewell Address | p. 187 |
Life After Teaching | p. 191 |
"Are You Still Working on That Screenplay?" | p. 193 |
"David Letterman Calling!" | p. 195 |
My Former Students Pop Up Everywhere | p. 199 |
Rocking Back and Forth | p. 201 |
Cab Ride in Toronto | p. 202 |
I Pay Less Than $20 for Gas | p. 203 |
Who's Afraid to Go to Mars? | p. 205 |
William Shakespeare or William Sherkspeare? | p. 206 |
Farewell to Jack Layton | p. 208 |
In Closing… | p. 209 |
The Cars We Drove in High School | p. 211 |
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