Username: amy-lepore
Gender: Female
Member since: December 2, 2005
Birthday: February 9, 1968
I am a: Teacher
Grades:
High School - 12th Grade
Subjects:
English / Literature / Writing
About Me
Personal Info
Bio
Born in Bowling Green, KY. Graduated high school from Hopkinsville High in 1986; University of Central Florida with B.S. in 1991; and Murray State University with M.A. in 1996. Taught in Kentucky, South Korea, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Mississippi on both high school and college/university levels. Freelance author. Married with two sons.
Interests
Reading, writing, researching, crafting, singing, outdoors, sports, camping, animals
Groups
- Hamlet,
- The Great Gatsby,
- The Crucible,
- 1984,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- Black Boy,
- The Chocolate War,
- Elizabeth the Great,
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
- Frankenstein,
- The Giver,
- Macbeth,
- Medea,
- A Rose for Emily,
- Siddhartha,
- Sonnets,
- The Taming of the Shrew,
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,
- The Westing Game,
- Beowulf
Favorites
Favorite Books
- 1984,
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,
- A Jury of Her Peers,
- A Rose for Emily,
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,
- Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man,
- Beowulf,
- Catch-22,
- Everyman,
- Frankenstein,
- Guide to Literary Terms,
- Gulliver's Travels,
- Hamlet,
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
- Julius Caesar,
- Lord of the Flies,
- Macbeth,
- My Last Duchess,
- Night,
- Ode on a Grecian Urn,
- Ode to My Socks,
- Pygmalion,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- Siddhartha,
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
- Something Wicked This Way Comes,
- Sonnets,
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
- The Canterbury Tales,
- The Crucible,
- The Da Vinci Code,
- The Garden Party,
- The Kugelmass Episode,
- The Metamorphosis,
- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,
- The Picture of Dorian Gray,
- The Pit and the Pendulum,
- The Scarlet Letter,
- The Seafarer,
- The Taming of the Shrew,
- The Yellow Wallpaper,
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,
- Trifles,
- Twelve Angry Men
Favorite Other
Favorite Movies
Favorite Quotes
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet..." [More]
Richard Lovelace
"To beguile the time,
Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your..." [More]
William Shakespeare
"My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’..." [More]
William Shakespeare
"I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience torpid through virtuous inaction are..." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the..." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?" [More]
William Butler Yeats
