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Mark SalzmanTrue Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
1.
What motivates Mark to begin teaching the class at the Central Juvenile Hall? How does his motivation change throughout the book?
2.
What are some of the topics Mark has his students write about early on? How do the students' responses to these topics reflect their experience in jail?
3.
Early in the book, Nathaniel Hall tells Mark that he is able to "play" him. What does this mean? How does this compare with other warnings Mark has received from the staff?
