Teach For America – Philadelphia

On February 25, 2006, I accepted a job with Teach For America to teach elementary school in Philadelphia. This blog will chronicle my experiences over the next two years – it's a personal reflection and isn't sponsored by Teach For America in any way.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Ms. Crooke


Matt's cover letter from UPenn was addressed to "Ms. Crooke." He lasted about three minutes until he just couldn't stand to leave it uncorrected any longer and changed the "s" into an "r." Matt is from just outside of Philadelphia, from a place called New Hope (wasn't that the name of Episode 4 of Star Wars?). This picture was taken on the way to see the house that he and a couple others are renting. I've been invited to take the fourth room and I'm really interested (in the house and the people) but I'm not too keen on the neighborhood. It doesn't grab my soul, so to speak, and it's fairly far away from where I'll be teaching. But, we'll see.

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