"Tuesday's With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" by Mitch Albom has a title which outlines the direction of the book. An older man, Morrie, a young man, Mitch, and about life's greatest lesson. Morrie was a professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts when Mitch attended college. Morrie was his favorite professor. A few years after Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ASL ... ) he was unable to teach anymore. This was about 20 years after Mitch graduated ... Morrie so much more. Knowing Morrie was dying, Mitch went to see him every Tues...

• Word Count: 2334
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Tuesday's With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" by Mitch Albom has a title which outlines the direction of the book. An older man, Morrie, a young man, Mitch, and about life's greatest lesson. Morrie was a professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts when Mitch attended college. Morrie was his favorite professor. A few years after Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ASL ... ) he was unable to teach anymore. This was about 20 years after Mitch graduated ... Morrie so much more. Knowing Morrie was dying, Mitch went to see him every Tues...

• Word Count: 2334
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... in West Newton, Massachusetts in 1994 at Morrie's house, in his study on Tuesdays. Albom details the six months he spends with Morrie Schwartz, his former sociology professor from Brandeis University who is dying of ALS, and the life lessons he receives. Mitch is a newspaper sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press. He was Morrie's last student that he taught, but through Mitch's writing ... body works, but what he is teaching is with passion. The students don't know that they are learning. He teaches the meaning of Life and how to be human, which is the theme in this story. The book...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... the true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying teacher to his pupil. Morrie Schwartz has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and has only a few months to live. Mitch Albom is a reporter who was once a student of Morrie's in college, but has slipped into the ... " (p 175) The signature line from the book is "Death ends a life, not a relationship." (p 174) The relationship Morrie had on the world will live on forever. People will pass down the knowledge gained from Morrie's wisdom. Morrie tells a story he had heard about a wave on the ocean. The wave had fel...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School