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100 1  Peterson, Liza Jessie,|eauthor. 
245 10 All day :|ba year of love and survival teaching 
       incarcerated kids at Rikers Island /|cLiza Jessie 
       Peterson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCenter Street,|c2017. 
300    xii, 243 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Foreword / by Abiodun Oyewole -- Summer substitue -- 
       Sizing me up -- I got this, Not -- Danny Gunz -- One, two,
       poof -- Rug rat roll call -- Africa Prince Tha Don -- King
       Down -- This is some bullshit -- Artist vs. civilian -- 
       Paradigm shift -- The hardest part -- MoMo and friends. 
520    "ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the 
       issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, 
       insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching 
       teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts 
       raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a 
       year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy,
       the high school for inmates detained at New York City's 
       Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional 
       workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill-
       prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program
       for the incarcerated youths. For the first time faced with
       full days teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile 
       adolescent inmates, "Ms. P" comes to understand the 
       essence of her predominantly Black and Latino students as 
       she attempts not only to educate them, but to instill them
       with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their lives.
       "I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court 
       jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps 
       all in my charge, all up in my face, to educate," Peterson
       discovers. "Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears 
       to do any lesson is like running boot camp for hyperactive
       gremlins. I have to be consistent, alert, firm, witty, 
       fearless, and demanding, and most important, I have to 
       have strong command of the subject I'm teaching." 
       Discipline is always a challenge, with the students 
       spouting street-infused backtalk and often bouncing off 
       the walls with pent-up testosterone. Peterson learns 
       quickly that she must keep the upper hand-set the rules 
       and enforce them with rigor, even when her sympathetic 
       heart starts to waver. Despite their relentless bravura 
       and antics-and in part because of it-Peterson becomes a 
       fierce advocate for her students. She works to instill the
       young men, mostly black, with a sense of pride about their
       history and culture: from their African roots to Langston 
       Hughes and Malcolm X. She encourages them to explore and 
       express their true feelings by writing their own poems and
       essays. When the boys push her buttons (on an almost daily
       basis) she pushes back, demanding that they meet not only 
       her expectations or the standards of the curriculum, but 
       set expectations for themselves-something most of them 
       have never before been asked to do. She witnesses some 
       amazing successes as some of the boys come into their own 
       under her tutelage. Peterson vividly captures the prison 
       milieu and the exuberance of the kids who have been handed
       a raw deal by society and have become lost within the 
       system. Her time in the classroom teaches her something, 
       too-that these boys want to be rescued. They want normalcy
       and love and opportunity"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Peterson, Liza Jessie. 
610 20 Austin MacCormick-Island Academy (Queens, New York, N.Y.) 
650  0 Juvenile delinquents|xEducation|zNew York (State)|zRikers 
       Island. 
650  0 Juvenile delinquents|xRehabilitation|zNew York (State)
       |zRikers Island. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xSociology|xUrban.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xCriminology.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xEducators.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xPersonal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xMinority Studies.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Rikers Island (N.Y.) 
700 1  Oyewole, Abiodun,|ewriter of foreword. 
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