Tompkins, Susie Powers, 1907-

Cotton-patch schoolhouse / Susie Powers Tompkins. - Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (vi, 216 pages)

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A Familiar Road Brings Back Memories; Chapter 2. My First Horse; Chapter 3. My First Love Affair; Chapter 4. I Go to College; Chapter 5. I Meet the Children and Reverend Milford; Chapter 6. A Glimpse of Home; Chapter 7. My First Full Day of Teaching and Miss Bunker; Chapter 8. We Have a Pet; Chapter 9. Our Nature Walk; Chapter 10. Minnie's Love Affair; Chapter 11. A Day on Egypt; Chapter 12. Minnie Runs Away; Chapter 13. The Thanksgiving Party; Chapter 14. Home for the Holidays; Chapter 15. The Christmas Party; Chapter 16. Christmas at Home. Chapter 17. The RunawayChapter 18. Out of Fuel in a Snowstorm; Chapter 19. We Learn about Birds and Other Wildlife; Chapter 20. The Magic of Spring; Chapter 21. Miss Bunker Cheers Me Up; Chapter 22. We Go to Camp Meeting; Chapter 23. Planning the Last Two Weeks of School; Chapter 24. The State Supervisor Visits My School; Chapter 25. The School Turnout; Epilogue.

This book is a memoir of the author's year as a young and inexperienced teacher in rural Marengo County, several miles from Linden Alabama, in1926.


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Tompkins, Susie Powers, 1907-
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Teachers--Alabama--Marengo County--Biography.
Education, Rural--History.--Alabama--Marengo County
EDUCATION--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Educators.
Education, Rural.
Teachers.


Marengo County (Ala.)--History.
Alabama--Marengo County.


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