Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Average English 12 (March 5, 2008)

In Class:
  • Continued Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year entries: Escape from Quarantine and Burial Pits and Dead Carts
  • We viewed a select section of the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail called "Plague Village"
  • Silent Reading: A Poor Piper and A Violent Cure
  • When we finish A Journal tomorrow, you will need to write a journal of your own about something significant in your life... "A Journal of the Year I Broke My Leg" (15 pts)

We will finish A Journal of the Plague Year tomorrow...and we will take a quiz (10 pts) on the journal !!!

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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.