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| Foreword | |
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| With Special Thanks | |
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| How Did I Do It? | |
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| A Note to Teachers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| My Frantic First Year at Northern Secondary School | |
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| On the Run to Fourteen Classrooms | |
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| The Day the F-Word Popped Up in Class | |
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| My First In-Class Movie Was a Disaster! | |
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| The Day I Fell Asleep in Class | |
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| Cartoon Maps on the Blackboard | |
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| Three Cheers for Jim McQueen | |
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| Keeping Lessons Fast and Lively | |
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| She Was Only Fired Twice! | |
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| My Next Nine Years at Northern | |
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| The Man with His Face on Our Ten-Dollar Bill | |
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| Engine Transplants Before Heart Transplants | |
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| Her Dog Had Fleas | |
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| History Teacher Pumps Gas at Local Station | |
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| Effective Writing for Nineteen Years | |
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| A Turkey Almost Landed on the Moon | |
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| "Flushed With Pride" | |
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| "Cooks, Gluttons, and Gourmets" | |
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| Julius Caesar Was in My Class! Cleopatra, Too! | |
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| Pronouncing Ancient Greek Names | |
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| Where Has Ancient History Gone? | |
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| The Story of Henry Heme | |
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| Master of Originality | |
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| Marking … Marking … Marking … | |
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| The Great Bicycle Race | |
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| Robin Hood at Massey Hall | |
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| Reading the Dictionary One Page a Day | |
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| Catching a Streaker… | |
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| See This Piece of Chalk? | |
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| Spelling Mistakes | |
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| September a Special Month | |
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| Memory Power | |
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| My Twenty-One Years at North Toronto Collegiate Institute | |
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| Arriving at North Toronto | |
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| Are You "Sesquilingual?" | |
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| Letter from Pierre Berton | |
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| Two Visits to Stonehenge in One Day | |
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| "Stayin� Alive" in the Stone Age! | |
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| Hi-Jinx 1979 | |
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| "See You Later, Exfiltrator!" | |
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| Five Hundred Years of New Words | |
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| Get Ready for a "Sherkout"! | |
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| Elvis: Live from the Grave! | |
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| Were You Born in Farch? | |
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| Memorizing "High Flight" and Other Poems | |
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| Where Do You Come From? | |
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| From Model T Ford to Mustang Convertible | |
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| The Grapes of Wrath | |
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| Did Columbus Really "Discover" America? | |
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| Guidance Report by Air Mail | |
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| From Robert E. Lee to Lee Iacocca | |
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| Interview Your Grandparents | |
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| Three Students "Moon" a School Assembly | |
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| Rock Around the Block! | |
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| A Most Unusual Question | |
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| Voting on Date and Format of Test | |
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| "You're Giving Me a Zero?" | |
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| "I Hear You're Writing a Screenplay!" | |
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| History Jokes I Told in Class | |
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| Alexander the Great Died of a Fever… | |
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| Wardrobe Changes in Thirty-One Years | |
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| An Italian Motorcycle in My History Class | |
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| High School Reunion in 1966 | |
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| Reciting the Alphabet Backwards | |
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| How the Future Became the Past | |
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| When I Was in High School … | |
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| No Smoking! | |
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| Three Magic Words | |
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| My First Call on a Cellphone | |
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| My Farewell Address | |
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| Life After Teaching | |
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| "Are You Still Working on That Screenplay?" | |
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| "David Letterman Calling!" | |
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| My Former Students Pop Up Everywhere | |
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| Rocking Back and Forth | |
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| Cab Ride in Toronto | |
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| I Pay Less Than $20 for Gas | |
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| Who's Afraid to Go to Mars? | |
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| William Shakespeare or William Sherkspeare? | |
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| Farewell to Jack Layton | |
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| In Closing… | |
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| The Cars We Drove in High School | |