A clearly worded, powerfully optimistic look at what high school students will face after graduation. - KIRKUS REVIEWS
Mrs. Pyrch Would Like to See You After Class
You're a graduate with a diploma and dream or no clue what do do next? Looks like you still have one more book to read. This one. Get ready to grow up and show up for your life Beyond the Bell.
Everybody recalls that one teacher who made a difference--the coach who inspired, the teacher who challenged, and the English teacher who listened. Melissa Pyrch is that teacher. She has spent over two decades in classrooms with teenagers just like you. She understands your uncertainty, fear, and sheer excitement when thinking about your future. She gets it, and she's got you.
So sit back and get comfortable as Mrs. Pyrch offers 12 lessons packed with encouraging advice for learning, leaving home, choosing a college major, landing a job, and navigating relationships. Through personal experience and examples from former students, she assures you - you are not alone.
There will be no homework assigned on these chapters, but there will be a test on this content. Many, many tests as your life unfolds. Are you ready to rediscover who you are and move in the direction of your dreams?
Get ready to let go of the inevitable insecurity and doubt of adolescence and trust who you are meant to be after your last school bell rings.
About the Author :
Melissa Pyrch is a high school English teacher who motivates her students to dream big. She encourages them to step into the spotlight because she believes everyone deserves to shine.
Review :
A guide offers advice for high school students confronting graduation.
Pyrch draws on her two decades of experience as a teacher to pull together a collection of inspirational insights and tips for students graduating from high school and facing the outside world. “You don’t need to graduate from high school or college to know this: the world can hit you pretty hard at times,” she writes to her target audience of teens. And some of the questions that arise can follow people throughout their lives, morphing according to circumstances. “Even when you grow up and you choose,” the author asserts, “the question still applies: What do you want to be?” She touches on some everyday worries of high school students—feeling ugly, not making a team, enduring their parents’ divorce, failing classes, falling in and out of love—and weaves stories of her many pupils into the text in order to illustrate some of these dilemmas. She likewise works in reminiscences of her own experiences as a high school teacher, humanizing the profession for readers (instructors get bored, she confesses, and they often feel off their game). In all these tales and throughout the lucid, upbeat narrative, she strikes the pitch-perfect note of a caring, knowing teacher, someone who has gained a valuable perspective that her students aren’t yet old enough to possess. “The culprit is just youth, plain and simple,” Pyrch explains. “In fact, most of you will be shocked to discover the outcome of a situation you had no intention of creating. ”Your stories matter, she reassures her readers. These tales, “made up of moments where you pushed yourself to do something you thought you couldn’t do,” are what people will remember most vividly from high school.
A clearly worded, powerfully optimistic look at what high school students will face after graduation. - KIRKUS REVIEWS
