Life in a crowded place pdf download

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Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 09, Elisa rated it liked it. The title of this book grabbed my attention. While many of the ideas presented were not new ideas, it was nice to see the ideas presented in a way that supported holistic teaching and bringing a learning community together.

View 1 comment. Dec 06, Kaitlyn added it. Life in a Crowded Place is a book about Peterson's personal experiences in a classroom.

He goes from teacher at a high-end private school to teach at a lower socioeconomic area. He describes how the different the kids are and how different he has to teach. It was comforting as a future teacher to read this and know that I will struggle but ultimately, because I care I will succeed.

Aug 30, Carrie rated it liked it Recommends it for: teachers who are trying to build a learning community. Peterson makes a good point about the importance of rites and ritual in the building of a classrooom community but there are only so many ways you can say "rites and ritual are important" and so many examples you can give before starting to sound redundant.

Read the first chapter, that's all you need. Mar 08, Barbara Lovejoy rated it liked it. I felt there were a many great ideas in this book that I would like to see applied in our new charter school.

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It was a pleasant fantasy. But before each stop she got nervous. She felt lost. At one station, men and women of various colors poured in and filled the railroad car, and it was everyone for themselves.

Everyone who could grab a seat sat down, and those left standing clutched straps to support themselves and hung on tight. Near the seated couple, closer to the man because he was sitting a little forward, a young woman had squeezed herself in. In a few minutes, however, the young man stood up, bowed, and gestured politely to the standing woman, offering his seat.

The young woman was she married or not? So she sat beside her new neighbor, tangled in a web of incomprehensible feelings. They rode on. She watched, she mused, and she wondered at the fact that though she was a stranger to everyone, she felt a kind of kinship with these two strangers, whether she thought of them as a couple, distinct from the crowd, or whether she imagined herself together with them. That was why she felt so lonely as she sat there beside them, lonelier than she felt among the motionless, densely packed crowd in the railroad car.

In the short time of their journey, a commonality had developed between her and the couple—a short time in partnership, a fleeting moment, a tiny fragment of her life which would, in half an hour, be forgotten.

A few stations later, the woman sitting beside her finally got up. The train was still moving at full speed, but it was near the next station and would soon stop.

The train stopped and the couple got off. Other people got off with them and different people pushed in to take their places, men and women mingling with strangers, squeezing close as if they were family.