kapokkid
kapokkid
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April 8, 2010
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High School - 10th Grade
English / Literature / Writing
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Biography
I currently teach English in grades 9-12 and just completed my 7th year of teaching at my current school. My focus in college was literary analysis but I also studied three languages and am currently completing certification in History.
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Answered a Question in There Will Come Soft Rains
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Answered a Question in There Will Come Soft Rains
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Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
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Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in The Things They Carried
One of the themes that comes up in the final chapter "The Lives of the Dead" is...
Answered a Question in Science
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Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
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Answered a Question in History
The Red Power Movement really got to be well known after they occupied Alcatraz, a...
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Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Bronte of course presents the homes and the environments within them in a very...
Answered a Question in Robinson Crusoe
One of the ways that Defoe addresses salvation through Robinson Crusoe is in the...
Answered a Question in Victorian Literature
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Answered a Question in Cuban Missile Crisis
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Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front
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