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Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse.

Tompkins, Susie Powers – 1992

This book describes the experience of a young and inexperienced teacher during 1926 in rural Marengo County, Alabama. Susie Powers Tompkins accepted her first teaching assignment to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College. However, for Tompkins the rewards of teaching went far beyond just earning money. She found…

Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational History, Elementary Education