Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Average English 12 (March 4, 2008)

In Class:


Overview/ discussion of FEARS



  • Are you afraid of spiders? Snakes? Airplanes?

  • What does fear create?

  • IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS...

  • We discussed the idea that fear was greatly connected to the outbreak of the bubonic plague in London during 1665.

And we reread and discussed A Journal of the Plague Year (the first two entries...The Infection Spreads, and Dismal Scenes)

With the remaining time your continued "The Journal...", reading: Escape from Quarantine, and Burial Pits and Dead Carts found on pgs 560-562 in your text
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My basic social character is that of thirty year-old, rambunctious and FULL of energy, 5’3”, red haired, green eyed, sportier of retro/ colorful clothing who lives in an old Victorian house. I teach Critical Thinking, English Composition, and Effective Speech at Pittsburgh Technical Institute (PTI), and I was born in Pittsburgh, but raised in Butler, PA; I was formerly a senior high school English teacher who taught British Literature to seniors for four and a half years at Butler Area Senior High School (BSHS, Butler, PA). I have been teaching college classes since 2008, when I graduated with my Master's degree in Instructional Leadership and English.