"Please don't tease me about it." He held up his hands. "I.I only have nine and a half fingers," he choked. I hope you will keep in mind The Hundred Dresses when he tells you." "Ashworth has something personal to share with you. I faced him toward the class and put my hands on his shoulders. It was a very macabre moment, but I didn't flinch. He whispered, "I have to tell the class something," and discreetly showed me that he was missing half of a finger. Well, everything was quiet at the end, but then Ashworth asked if he could whisper something in my ear. Oh, God, it took everything not to cry when I closed the book! I especially like that the story is told from the teaser's point of view. Her antagonists discover that she really did have a hundred dresses.a hundred beautiful drawings of dresses. The girls tease her mercilessly until she moves away. I was reading them The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, about a Polish immigrant girl who is so poor that she wears the same dress to school every day but insists that she had a hundred dresses lined up in her closet. We push the desks out of the way, pull down the shades, and turn off all the lights, except for an antique Victorian desk lamp I have.
Read ExcerptĪfter lunch each day I ready aloud to them. As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself. Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher. Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher’s perspective. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé-as she prefers to be called-does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. At once "a pop culture phenomenon" ( Publishers Weekly) and "screamingly funny" ( Booklist), Educating Esm é "should be read by anyone who's interested in the future of public education" ( Boston Phoenix Literary Section).Ī must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school.
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