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All Day - A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island (Paperback)
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All Day - A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island (Paperback)
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Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day
recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island
Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's
Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional poetry
workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill-prepared
for a full-time stint teaching a full GED curriculum program for
the incarcerated youth. For the first time faced with full days
teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile adolescent inmates,
"Ms. P" comes to understand the essence of her predominantly Black
and Latino students as she attempts not only to educate them, but
to instill them with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their
lives. "I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court
jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps all in my
charge, all up in my face, to educate," Peterson discovers.
"Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears to do any lesson is
like running boot camp for hyperactive gremlins. I have to be
consistent, alert, firm, witty, fearless, and demanding, and most
important, I have to have strong command of the subject I'm
teaching." Discipline is always a challenge, with the students
spouting street-infused backtalk and often bouncing off the walls
with pent-up testosterone. Peterson learns quickly that she must
keep the upper hand-set the rules and enforce them with rigor, even
when her sympathetic heart starts to waver. Despite their
relentless bravura and antics-and in part because of it-Peterson
becomes a fierce advocate for her students. She works to instill
the young men, mostly black, with a sense of pride about their
history and culture: from their African roots to Langston Hughes
and Malcolm X. She encourages them to explore and express their
true feelings by writing their own poems and essays. When the boys
push her buttons (on an almost daily basis) she pushes back,
demanding that they meet not only her expectations or the standards
of the curriculum, but set expectations for themselves-something
most of them have never before been asked to do. She witnesses some
amazing successes as some of the boys come into their own under her
tutelage. Peterson vividly captures the prison milieu and the
exuberance of the kids who have been handed a raw deal by society
and have become lost within the system. Her time in the classroom
teaches her something, too-that these boys want to be rescued. They
want normalcy and love and opportunity.
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