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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire

The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Rafe Esquith - Author
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 256 pages | ISBN 9780143112860 | 18 Dec 2007 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
This New York Times bestseller gives any teacher or parent all the techniques, exercises, and innovations that have made its author an educational icon, from personal codes of behavior to tips on tackling literature and algebra. The result is a powerful book for anyone concerned about the future of our children.

Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog. Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire Prologue: Fire in the Classroom

Part One: There's No Place Like Home

One: Gimme Some Truth
Two: Searching for Level VI

Part Two: The Method

Three: Reading for Life
Four: Writing
Five: Add It Up
Six: We Won't Get Fooled Again
Seven: What a Wonderful World
Eight: Rocket Man
Nine: Art Lover
Ten: Put Me In, Coach
Eleven: Taxman

Part Three: The Madness

Twelve: Think for Yourself
Thirteen: Celluloid Heroes
Fourteen: Goin' Mobile
Fifteen: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (but I Like It)
Sixteen: Do They Know It's Christmas?
Seventeen: Will Power

Epilogue: Rest in Peace

Acknowledgments
Appendixes

Esquith is a modern-day Thoreau

—Newsday

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