The Thread That Runs So True (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jesse Stuart
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and 1930’s
- Setting: Rural Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Jesse Stuart
- 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
Jesse Stuart was only sixteen when he began his teaching career at the one-room Lonesome Valley School in rural Kentucky. He had not planned on a teaching career and, in fact, had not completed his own high school education at the time. Nevertheless, having gone by mistake into a room where the county school board was testing teacher candidates, he decided to try the exam. He passed it and received a second-class certificate, which permitted him to teach the lower grades. He chose to go to Lonesome Valley School because his older sister had taught there...
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