...My name is Alex and I am an English PhD student and instructor at a Big Ten research university studying literary, cinematic, and dramatic adaptations of Shakespeare. I completed my B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Connecticut, where I graduated magna cum laude. As a teacher, I love to bring my passion for interdisciplinarity into the classroom. (read more)
...I like to make reading fun for my students, showing them how words fit together like puzzle pieces to convey information or to provoke an emotion. I give my students reading comprehension skills such as finding linking and transition words, picking up on cues that an author is listing examples, ... (read more)
...It’s a subject I love as I lived overseas and will help bring maps to life. Plus, I live in your same time zone and my evening hours are flexible. I have been a classroom teacher filling in many roles from Social Studies, to Science, to Reading. (read more)