Indie Spotlight is my effort to help Indie authors with marketing. Marketing is the most difficult and time-consuming task for Indie/Self-Published authors, so if I can help even a little bit, I’m happy to do it. A spotlight does not include a book review. I will be reviewing this later. Below please see a book description, author bio, and buy links for “MISS I WISH YOU A BED OF ROSES,” by Sherri Moshman-Paganos, a memoir about teaching in Greece.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Teaching: you’re frustrated and exhausted one day, gratified and fulfilled the next. Teaching is not like other careers; we teachers give our whole self to our students day after day.
Blending humorous memoir and classroom ideas, the author of “Miss, I wish you a bed of roses:” Teaching Secondary School English in Greece, looks back on her 40 years of teaching international students. She writes about her teaching insecurities, secondary school and college composition classes, the difficult and the great, the base and the sublime. She describes school grades, bells and meetings, routines of any high school, and although teaching in Greece has unique challenges, Greek teens are like teenagers everywhere, full of hopes and dreams for the future. Besides looking at her own career growth, the author offers advice for language and literature classes, and ideas for using poetry, songs and film to create a lively atmosphere for learning.
Whether you are a new teacher interested in suggestions for your classes, including ESL or EFL teachers, or an experienced teacher looking for new ideas, “Miss I wish you a bed of roses:” Teaching Secondary School English in Greece is for you. But not only teachers — anyone who has taken an English language or literature class or has children taking literature classes– will enjoy this spirited memoir, enhanced by the author’s poetry and student comments. Her main advice: content counts but more so, formulating your teaching philosophy. And don’t forget to keep your temper and your sense of humor!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sherri Moshman-Paganos taught English to international students in New York City before joining the American College of Greece faculty in 1983. Here she taught secondary school English and college freshman composition classes.
Since her retirement in 2018, she has devoted herself to writing. She publishes a travel/culture blog on her travels in Greece and life in Athens. (www.olivesandislands.home.blog). Besides “Miss I wish you a Bed of Roses,” she is also the author of a fictionalized memoir on her years in Manhattan: Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change, and a collection of poetry, Wanderings: Poems of Discovery.
BUY LINK
Click on the cover image to buy this on Amazon. Kindle Unlimited Subscribers can borrow this for free.
Sound like a good and interesting book. I still remember my English teachers in Viet Nam. They were wives of US military men stationed in the country.
I haven’t read it yet but I picked it up on KU. It does sound good
This does sound like a good read, Bonnie.
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I don’t read many memoirs, but as a teacher myself I bet I’d really enjoy this. I also have friends who taught abroad, I’ll have to recommend this to them! Thanks for sharing!