*This is also one of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to, with Frank’s entertaining Irish accent and his bang-on voicings of typical reluctant high-school learners.
A bona-fide high-school English teacher classic.
Loved his epiphany about using excuse notes by the likes of Al Capone and Hitler as a motivational writing exercise!
And the anecdote about having his English students recite or sing recipes from recipe books while other students played flute, bongos, and other instruments!