Book
"In the fall of 1997, Michael Johnston went to the rural Mississippi Delta - the "deep heart's core" of the South - as a member of the Teach For America program to become an English teacher in one of the poorest districts in the nation. At Greenville High School, he confronted a racially divided world in which his African-American students had to struggle daily against a legacy of crippling poverty and the scourges of drug addiction and gang violence. In the Deep Heart's Core tells the story of how Johnston reached out to inspire his teenage students with all the means at his disposal - from the language of the great poets, to the strategies of chess, to the vigor of athletics." But more important, In the Deep Heart's Core brings to life the students of Greenville High, their passion for learning and dreams of a better world. Their stories, by turns heartbreaking and hopeful, harrowing and uplifting, form the emotional center of this powerful book." Publisher (barnesandnoble.com)
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0802140246
Michael Johnston
2003 Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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