The Thread That Runs So True (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jesse Stuart
- First Published: 1949
- Time of Work: 1925–1939
- Setting: Greenup County, Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Jesse Stuart, Mitchell Stuart, Martha Hilton Stuart, Naomi Deane Norris
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Nature, Education or educators, Rural or country life, Depression, economic, Lifestyles, Students or student life
- Locales: Kentucky
Form and Content
In The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart tells the story of his life as an educator in six parts, each episode treating a stage in his career. At the age of seventeen, after only three years of high school, Stuart began his teaching career in a one-room rural school. His students ranged widely in age and ability. Among several colorful stories, his most notable is an account of a fistfight between Stuart and his massive, twenty-year-old first-grade pupil. By the end of the school year, Stuart had evolved a rudimentary philosophy of education: The...
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