Your Story Starts Here
Jim Zervanos
Jim Zervanos, a seasoned high-school English teacher and father of two, embarks on a mission at the cusp of a new school year. He realizes that today's youth are thrust into a tumultuous world and burdened with saving it. To chronicle this extraordinary period in America, he assigns himself a unique task: keeping a journal.
Within its pages, we witness "his kids" grappling with pressing issues like identity politics, gun violence, and political uncertainty. A sophomore prodigy wrestles his demons onto the pages of his fiction before entering a psychiatric hospital. An estranged junior posts ominous threats on Snapchat, while a principal sabotages a student walkout. Meanwhile, in his classroom, Jim prepares a hiding space for an active shooter event and, back home, finds solace in the eulogy of his young sons' pet fish, sent on its final journey with a flush.
By year's end, Jim, unwavering in his determination to inspire hope in his students, discovers that it's the youth who inspire hope in him. Their creativity and ideals paint a vivid portrait of an evolving America, seen through the kaleidoscope of Generation Z. Your Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z is an intimate exploration of the challenges, resilience, and unwavering hope of today's youth in a turbulent world.
Duration - 7h 24m.
Author - Jim Zervanos.
Narrator - Jim Zervanos.
Published Date - Monday, 15 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2024 Jim Zervanos ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Jim Zervanos, a seasoned high-school English teacher and father of two, embarks on a mission at the cusp of a new school year. He realizes that today's youth are thrust into a tumultuous world and burdened with saving it. To chronicle this extraordinary period in America, he assigns himself a unique task: keeping a journal. Within its pages, we witness "his kids" grappling with pressing issues like identity politics, gun violence, and political uncertainty. A sophomore prodigy wrestles his demons onto the pages of his fiction before entering a psychiatric hospital. An estranged junior posts ominous threats on Snapchat, while a principal sabotages a student walkout. Meanwhile, in his classroom, Jim prepares a hiding space for an active shooter event and, back home, finds solace in the eulogy of his young sons' pet fish, sent on its final journey with a flush. By year's end, Jim, unwavering in his determination to inspire hope in his students, discovers that it's the youth who inspire hope in him. Their creativity and ideals paint a vivid portrait of an evolving America, seen through the kaleidoscope of Generation Z. Your Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z is an intimate exploration of the challenges, resilience, and unwavering hope of today's youth in a turbulent world. Duration - 7h 24m. Author - Jim Zervanos. Narrator - Jim Zervanos. Published Date - Monday, 15 January 2024. Copyright - © 2024 Jim Zervanos ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:14
01 dedication
Duration:00:00:30
02 author's note
Duration:00:00:14
03 ryan's lament
Duration:00:03:41
04 the zeitgeist
Duration:00:07:24
05 oncologist's visit
Duration:00:02:35
06 graduation day
Duration:00:07:48
07 summer reading
Duration:00:02:44
08 school shooting
Duration:00:01:40
09 madeline at the white house
Duration:00:02:06
10 bo chang
Duration:00:03:19
11 clearing out the closet
Duration:00:01:17
12 tooth
Duration:00:03:48
13 all throats are red
Duration:00:00:34
14 american flag
Duration:00:03:12
15 cameron & hunter are high
Duration:00:04:10
16 swaztika
Duration:00:01:04
17 tooth #6
Duration:00:02:34
18 mile's poem
Duration:00:03:56
19 losing stars
Duration:00:05:03
20 cynical girl
Duration:00:04:21
21 savannah's story
Duration:00:02:05
22 men & women
Duration:00:04:30
23 fair minded
Duration:00:01:46
24 aaron's missing chapter
Duration:00:05:04
25 school clothes
Duration:00:02:10
26 i am a honduran
Duration:00:05:25
27 vape pens
Duration:00:03:44
28 swastika ii
Duration:00:00:39
29 plasticity
Duration:00:02:42
30 mock crash
Duration:00:08:37
31 sex crimes
Duration:00:03:03
32 christopher finds a coin
Duration:00:00:29
33 wetback
Duration:00:05:50
34 changing your mind
Duration:00:02:55
35 punishing aaron
Duration:00:02:23
36 millennial girl
Duration:00:03:46
37 mrs jackson's story
Duration:00:01:28
38 after school science
Duration:00:02:38
39 teacher ages
Duration:00:06:24
40 chapter in my life
Duration:00:03:30
41 sex talk
Duration:00:03:43
42 busted
Duration:00:01:23
43 on girls and death
Duration:00:07:46
44 michael runs away
Duration:00:02:02
45 neal's burden
Duration:00:03:07
46 ryan cancels
Duration:00:06:13
47 lost children
Duration:00:07:29
48 halloween in ap
Duration:00:03:18
50 last night out
Duration:00:03:21
51 the war on halloween
Duration:00:08:53
52 stormy daniels
Duration:00:02:11
53 rants
Duration:00:11:17
54 soothing michael
Duration:00:03:59
55 vana's volvo
Duration:00:07:09
56 golf with dean
Duration:00:06:59
57 parent teacher group
Duration:00:03:29
58 why because i love you
Duration:00:00:37
59 candy
Duration:00:02:56
60 classroom supplies
Duration:00:00:34
61 vana's mlk project
Duration:00:08:35
62 parent's night
Duration:00:11:28
63 sex ed
Duration:00:03:21
64 pretty women
Duration:00:06:19
65 fucking philly
Duration:00:06:14
66 sixer's game
Duration:00:01:39
67 kim jong un
Duration:00:02:27
68 angry girls
Duration:00:07:26
69 car wash
Duration:00:03:34
70 somebody please help edwin
Duration:00:03:27
71 debutante ball
Duration:00:02:27
72 movie project
Duration:00:04:59
73 michael reading
Duration:00:03:53
74 returning stories
Duration:00:20:07
75 embarrassed and sad
Duration:00:02:04
76 man in the mirror
Duration:00:02:40
77 big boy
Duration:00:02:44
78 not so fresh start
Duration:00:06:24
79 lack self control
Duration:00:03:09
80 heart rate
Duration:00:02:43
81 untethered soul
Duration:00:07:06
82 gotta pee
Duration:00:03:43
83 quickie
Duration:00:01:33
84 the way of the craft
Duration:00:09:15
85 wonder woman vs spider man
Duration:00:00:52
86 deminica on retirement
Duration:00:03:02
87 middle east peace
Duration:00:08:01
88 run, hide, fight
Duration:00:07:37
89 day of atonement
Duration:00:13:40
90 lbj
Duration:00:00:51
91 jesus suspended
Duration:00:01:42
92 date night
Duration:00:03:18
93 teacher dive
Duration:00:03:33
94 vana in china
Duration:00:02:59
95 christopher's first day of school
Duration:00:08:02
96 we're organizing a bus
Duration:00:01:45
97 michael wants a snow day
Duration:00:01:23
98 lockdown
Duration:00:00:46
99 snowy day
Duration:00:01:36
100 ryan returns
Duration:00:02:59
101 town hearing
Duration:00:02:24
102 20 questions
Duration:00:03:02
103 walkout
Duration:00:04:12
104 mc dreamy
Duration:00:02:30
105 coco
Duration:00:06:46
106 death threat
Duration:00:02:47
107 mc steamy
Duration:00:01:10
108 butt chin
Duration:00:06:22
109 another testing day
Duration:00:03:00
110 wonder
Duration:00:01:49
111 acknowledgments
Duration:00:01:48
112 about the author
Duration:00:00:41
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:24