blog assignment #1

I want to write about Tears of a Tiger. I just read this book for the first time this past summer on the recommendation of a teacher from Missouri. I've never taught this book. Right now, I'm sort of dreading reading the book again, because it's so sad. But it's real, too. I don't want to spoil anything for folks who haven't read, so I'll just say that this time around, I'll be looking for places in the text where things might have gone differently. Why does Sharon Draper choose this incident? Why does she start with a car crash? Also, she doesn't focus on alcohol, but it's there.

I went to the public library catalog to see if there were copies available, and one of the books I found under Draper's name was about burning out as a teacher. I'm going to try and get it today. I wonder what kind of teacher Draper was and how she started writing and why.