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Hello everyone, and welcome back to school! My name is Stephanie Aisbet, and I am currently teaching English 101, American Literature, and Literary Criticism here at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School.
I received my education at Valparaiso University, where I majored in Secondary Education and English. I have always genuinely loved to read and hope to pass that passion along to all of my students. One particular interest I had throughout my college career was in the field of literary criticism. It is so important to understand all of the different ways in which a text can be read!
As a teacher here at Kettle, I hope to infuse the students with the same excitement and passion I have for reading literature and grappling to understand the different possible ways in which it applies to our lives.
On a slightly different note, since technology will be very important to our class because of all the communicating and work we will be doing through this website, I thought it would be appropriate to give you all an idea of the kind of experience I have had working with technology.
Most of my life, the majority of my experience involved the use of PC's. I was pretty proficient with the the Microsoft Office Suite. I used Excel, PowerPoint, and Word frequently. I used Excel the most with an accounting class I took in high school, and PowerPoint, I used for a variety of purposes, and still do! I find it to be great for presentations. Microsoft Word is pretty self-explanatory. When I went to college, I bought a Macbook instead of a PC laptop. I have found it to be really convenient. I like using iphoto and the other neat applications that come along with it.
Another type of technology that I enjoy using are Web 2.0 applications. I think the social bookmarking is an extremely useful tool to use--for teacher and students. I have begun my own collection of websites that I like.
I also have experience using email (obviously) and blogs. These are great methods of communication. In fact, if you are in one of my classes, you may even get the opportunity to use them!
Finally, if you are a fellow English Teacher, here are a couple of sites that I have found extremely helpful:
Web English Teacher: This site has anything an English teacher could ever ask for.
Teach-nology: This Website, in one of its many useful sections, offers numerous ideas for lesson plans on books that are commonly read in schools.
This page was last updated on May 6, 2009.
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WebQuests: A New Addition to Our Classes
updated May 6, 2009
Hello English classes! We are going to be trying something new this semester. We will be using WebQuests to assist us in exploring literature at an even higher level. WebQuests are designed to...
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We will be exploring all different types of literature beginning with that of Puritan times! Great writers and thinkers such as Emily Dickinson, Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others will be the center of our attention.
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In this beginner class, we will be covering the very basics of English grammer and Literature. This class is designed to help students who either speak English as a second language or who struggle with English in general.
By the end of the semester, I hope that students will have reached a better understanding of the English language works and a better knowledge of ground-breaking authors and texts.
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In this more advanced English class, we will be not only reading texts, but we will be learning about the field of literary criticism and how critics years ago and today interpret and evaluate those texts.
Learning about literary criticism is extremely important for students wishing to pursue the studying of English. There are many different types of literary criticism, and each method helps to look at a text in a completely different way. Who contributes the most meaning to the text? The author? The reader? The text alone? Society at the time it was written? What about the time during which it is being read? These are all ideas that the theorists will explore.
It is important to know that there is so much more to reading a text than it's face value. There is not necessarily one correct interpretation of a text. Even you as a student can create your own meaning in a text.
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Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School
Stephanie Aisbet
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