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Harrisburg, North Carolina, United States
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I have been teaching high school since 2007. I have taught grades 9-10, creative writing, AP English Literature, IB English, and Journalism. I have also been teaching online undergraduate and graduate-level courses online since 2014 with Southern New Hampshire University. I love my content area and am constantly working on improving my craft.
My online teaching experience helps me design products for distance learning but will also work in a traditional face-to-face classroom!
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Analyzing Suspense and Setting in Stranger Things
Students love learning about suspense and what better way to do that than by pairing it with a popular TV show the students already know and love? With this activity, students will be asked to answer basic plot-based questions during the viewing. The viewing guide also includes 13 critical thinking and analysis questions that can be assigned for a Socratic seminar or remote-learning discussion board posts. After viewing the episode, students will analyze the intention choices made by the write
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts
Understanding Symbolism, Motifs, & Themes in Romeo & Juliet (Remote & In-Person)
Students often need a helping hand to navigate the symbols, motifs, and themes of a large work like Romeo & Juliet. This Niemeyer chart and discussion board is a great way to get students to slow down and examine each act of the classic Shakespearean tragedy. As a handout, it's great on brightly-colored paper. Students can keep it out as they read the text in class. Remotely, it offers students the opportunity to visualize a challenging text. In addition, this download has a grading rubric wh
8th - 11th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Social Studies
Introducing Annotation for ANY TEXT and ANY LENGTH (high school)
This activity is designed to show students that reading closely helps them dig deeper and get more out of a text. The activity also provides a tool for you to have your students engage with each other and begin an academic conversation about a short text or chunk of text. Introducing Annotation is a great activity to help establish the expectation that annotation is the norm in your classroom. This product includes instructions for teachers to use this assignment in both face-to-face and remote
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Other (Social Studies)
Also included in: Introduction to Annotating Bundle for High School
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Experience
I have been teaching high school since 2007. I have taught grades 9-10, creative writing, AP English Literature, IB English, and Journalism. I have also been teaching online undergraduate and graduate-level courses online since 2014 with Southern New Hampshire University. I love my content area and am constantly working on improving my craft.
My online teaching experience helps me design products for distance learning but will also work in a traditional face-to-face classroom!
Teaching style
Intentionality is a major component of my teaching and the content I create. I want my students to see how writers and artists are intentional with their craft. I want my students to understand the value of being intentional in their own writing. I believe students should do the heavy lifting in the classroom, so my resources are designed to be robust and rigorous, but easy to adjust and customize for all levels of learners. I’ve done the front loading so that my resources make it easy for teachers to make literature and writing accessible and relevant to their students.
My own education history
I have a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University. I earned a Graduate Teaching Certificate in English grades 9-12 from the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami in English.
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