Teacher Man, part 2

You can read here the questions for chapters 9 - 11. You have to answer them before our class next Tuesday when we'll discuss them. Enjoy it!

TEACHER MAN  -  Part 2

CHAPTER 9

1.     Explain why he left McKee Vocational and Technical High School and summarize his experience as a university adjunct lecturer.

2.      Why, in your opinion, didn’t he succeed when the told his university students “You have a right to think for yourselves”?

3.      Why did he give up his college career?

4.      What do we know about his family life so far? What is going on at home?

5.      What did he use the parts of a ballpen to explain?

6.      What are the problems underlying behind Hector’s incident?

CHAPTER 10

7.      What is a melting-pot school?  (Seward Park High School)

8.      What are the main problems of the students who attend this kind of schools?

9.      How did McCourt face the problem?

CHAPTER 11

10.  What challenges McCourt in his classes?

11.  Who is Andrew? What’s the connection of this kid with the teacher’s past?

12.  Why did Frank go to the psychologist? Was it positive for him?

13.  In your opinion, what does he think of psychologists after his experience?

14.  Why didn’t Ben Boom Boom react when McCourt made him fall in the classroom?

15.  How many times did he go to Dublin? How different was each occasion from the previous one?

16.  Why was he fired from the last school?