Education
- English Literature/Psychology Major (BA, Cape Breton University, Sydney, N.S.)
- Secondary Bachelor of Education (Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S.)
Favourite Books
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
- Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Michael Chabon)
- We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- Maus (Art Spiegelman)
- White Noise (Don DeLillo)
- Dubliners (James Joyce)
- A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)
- The Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling)
- About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
- In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
- Lady Oracle (Margaret Atwood)
- The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (Rick Riordan)
- A Song of Ice and Fire Series (George R.R. Martin)
Collaboration
The Sensational 60's - a Global History 12 Webquest created with Ms. Blois, Mr. MacIntosh, and Mrs. Shelley.
About this Website
This website serves several purposes:
The links that I choose to share on this website not only correlate to the curriculum of my classes - they also support student learning outside the classroom and provide further learning and/or inspiration. Links will be modified and updated periodically to reflect what we are learning in the classroom. Unless stated, visiting these websites is not a requirement of the course(s).
If you have a link that you believe would be beneficial to either English or Social Studies 8, please contact me.
- An online class resource centre for students
- A means for parents to see what their children are studying
- To highlight personal and school policies
- To hold students accountable to the expectations of the course
- A means for both students and parents to contact me
The links that I choose to share on this website not only correlate to the curriculum of my classes - they also support student learning outside the classroom and provide further learning and/or inspiration. Links will be modified and updated periodically to reflect what we are learning in the classroom. Unless stated, visiting these websites is not a requirement of the course(s).
If you have a link that you believe would be beneficial to either English or Social Studies 8, please contact me.