Teacher/Pizza Guy
Title | Teacher/Pizza Guy PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Kass |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2019-08-26 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0814347169 |
Explores the emotional and physical labor necessary to work nights as a pizza delivery driver and days as a high school English teacher. Teacher/Pizza Guy is a collection of autobiographical poems from the 2016–17 school year in which Jeff Kass worked as a full-time English teacher and a part-time director for a literary arts organization and still had to supplement his income by delivering pizzas a few nights a week. In the collection, Kass is unapologetically political without distracting from the poems themselves but rather adds layers and nuances to the fight for the middle class and for educators as a profession. The timing of this book is beyond relevant. As a public high school teacher in America, Kass's situation is not uncommon. In September 2018, Time published an article detailing how many public school teachers across the country and in a variety of environments work multiple jobs to help make ends meet. Teacher/Pizza Guy chronicles Kass's experience of teaching, directing, feeding people, and treading the delicate balance of holding himself accountable to his wife and kids, his students, his customers, and his own mental and physical health while working three jobs in contemporary America. The journey of that year was draining, at times daunting, at times satisfying, but always surprising. Many of the ideas for these poems were initially scribbled onto the backs of pizza receipts or scratched out during precious free moments amidst the chaos of the school day. A driving force behind the book is Philip Levine's poem "What Work Is," which Kass believes attempts to examine not only the dignity and complexity of what we think physical, tangible work is but also the exhausting, albeit sometimes fulfilling nature of emotional work. Teacher/Pizza Guy is a funny and relatable collection for readers, thinkers, educators, and pizza lovers everywhere.
Hi, Pizza Man!
Title | Hi, Pizza Man! PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Walter |
Publisher | Orchard Books |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1998-09-01 |
Genre | Animal sounds |
ISBN | 0531071073 |
Provides the amusing and imaginative story of an impatient, hungry child and his enthusiasm to see the pizza person deliver his food. Reprint.
Pizza Man
Title | Pizza Man PDF eBook |
Author | Darlene Craviotto |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780573619953 |
Comedy / Characters: 1 male, 2 female Scenery: Interior It's a hot summer evening and Julie Rodgers has had a bad day. Her boss made a pass at her and she said no so she got a pink slip with her check. Julie's broke and disillusioned, so she drinks and turns on the stereo full blast to make the pain go away. Then her roommate comes home in the midst of an eating frenzy; her boyfriend has gone back to his wife so Alice has turned to food to forget. Julie suggests another way to vent their man
Three Lines in a Circle
Title | Three Lines in a Circle PDF eBook |
Author | Michael G. Long |
Publisher | Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-08-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1646981960 |
One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all—just three lines in a circle. This bold picture book tells the story of the peace symbol—designed in 1958 by a London activist protesting nuclear weapons—and how it inspired people all over the world. Depicting the symbol's travels from peace marches and liberation movements to the end of apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Three Lines in a Circle offers a message of inspiration to today's children and adults who are working to create social change. An author’s note provides historical background and a time line of late twentieth-century peace movements.
The Pizza Delivery Mystery
Title | The Pizza Delivery Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2011-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442426993 |
"With the timeless characters of Richard Scarry."
Fly Guy Presents: Insects
Title | Fly Guy Presents: Insects PDF eBook |
Author | Tedd Arnold |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Learn all about insects with Fly Guy and Buzz!
Shoo, Fly Guy! (Fly Guy #3)
Title | Shoo, Fly Guy! (Fly Guy #3) PDF eBook |
Author | Tedd Arnold |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545666333 |
Fly Guy is hungry. He wants something brown and smelly. Yuck! Fly Guy returns home to discover that Buzz has gone on a picnic without him! Sad and hungry, Fly Guy takes off in search of his favorite food. He gets shooed away from a hamburger, a slice of pizza, a dog's bones, and even roadkill--leaving readers to guess what Fly Guy's favorite oozy, lumpy, smelly, brown food could possibly be. It's Shoo Fly Pie, of course!Using hyperbole, puns, slapstick, and silly drawings, Tedd Arnold delivers an easy reader that is full of fun in his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Fly Guy series.