School Days We Remember Canada Edition: One Hundred Short Stories of Canadian Schooling in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

One hundred short stories about going to school in Canada in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Large print. Written to be read aloud. One question to talk over after each one. The cloakroom that smelled of wet wool. The boy who filled the inkwells every Monday and would not give up the job. The long walk, and the weather on the walk. The Christmas concert programs that came back from the printer with every name spelled wrong, and the teacher who sat up three evenings correcting sixty of them by hand. These are stories about the ordinary Canadian classroom. The one-room school on the concession road, with the stove at one end and nine grades in front of you. The parish school in Quebec, the year the sisters left. The new school in the subdivision, with a corridor ninety feet long and a boy who got lost in it twice on his first morning. From Cape Breton to the Okanagan. The teacher who boarded with a farm family and could not get warm until a hot brick appeared at the foot of the bed. The bus driver who added four minutes to his route every morning and never told anyone why. The caretaker who flooded the rink at eleven at night and was not on the payroll. Made for reading aloud, and for reading together: - One hundred complete stories, three or four minutes each - Large print -- Georgia 16 point, on a generous 7 x 10 inch page - Set with no broken words at the line ends, which is easier on the eye than justified type - One conversation question after every story -- an invitation, never a test, with no right answer - Three sections, one for each decade. Begin anywhere, in any order - Nothing to remember from one story to the next For families: the hard part of a visit is rarely the drive. It is the half hour afterwards, when you have both already asked about the weather. One story takes three minutes. The question after it takes as long as it takes, and more often than not you end up talking about something else entirely, which is the point. For activity coordinators and care staff: every story stands alone, and every question can be answered by someone who did not hear the story. That makes the book usable with a group of mixed ability, and it fills ten minutes without preparation. Designed for shared reading and reminiscence. School Days We Remember is the second book in the Canadian Days Remembered series of large-print collections. Each volume stands entirely on its own.