The journal of my first year as an 8th grade English teacher.
Holy cow, I bought a house! The good news: we do the paperwork and get the keys in a month. The bad news: I'm supposed to be in New Orleans for my Yeats conference the week they want me to close! Why does it always have to happen all at once. What could possibly go wrong?
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I received a BA in Mass Communications and English from the University of Illinois at Chicago many, many years ago. After spending time pursuing a creative writing career in the mountains of Colorado, the coast of Oregon, and the frozen tundra of Minnesota, I moved to Japan to become an English as a Second Language instructor. While in Japan I met my lovely wife Grace (who is from the Philippines, not Japan), and our beautiful daughter Dazzlyn was born in 2003. Seven years later I moved to sunny Southern California to continue that career. I enrolled in Bard College Delano and earned my MAT in Literature, then joined started my career as an English instructor at WCPA in 2011. In 2018 I moved to McFarland High School! My focus of academic research is Yeats's Studies. I have presented conference papers on the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on the life and work of William Butler Yeats, as well as Yeats's influence on contemporary society. My long-term goal is to earn a Ph.D. in English and publish a book on my research. For more about me, please follow the blog-journal of my first year of teaching, and feel free to comment and ask questions about anything you'd like to know!
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