Speech, English 10, AP Language and Composition

 

EDUCATION

*B.S. in Speech from IWU

*M.S. in English from ISU

*Additional courses taken from Olivet Nazarene and ICC

 

 

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

*Speech Team Advisor

*Tomorrow's Teachers Advisor

*Voice of Democracy Coordinator

 

PRESENTATIONS

*Taught communications skills for federal government for 3 years

*Published in Illinois Speech and Theater Association Journal

*National Writing Project at ISU, 1998

*Presented at the Illinois Speech and Theater Association Annual

  Conference, Fall 1998 and Fall 2007

*Presented at Corn Belt English Conference, Fall 2002

*Presented at the Central Illinois Teachers of English Conference, Spring

  2005, Spring 2008

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AWARDS

*Outstanding Teacher 2002 by VFW Post 454, Local and District

      1st place local winners since 1994

      5th place Nationals, Jonathan McEldowney, 2001

      3rd place Nationals, Drew Wieland, 2003

*Girl Scouts Educators' Recognition Award - 2004

*Who's Who Among America's Teachers - 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004-05,

    2005-06, 2006-07

*Rotary International Vocational Award 2007

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

*Member of National Catholic Education Assoication, National Council of Teachers of English, Illinois Association of Teachers of English, Illinois Speech and Theater Association, Special Commission on Tournaments, Individual Events, and Pi Kappa Delta (speech honorary)

 

*25 years teaching experience

 

 

 

Communications Curriculum

 

1-2 minute Pantomime; 2-4 minute speech about your name; 3-5 minute speech about a person; 4-6 minute speech to inform; 3-5 minute power point for final exam; how to prepare and deliver a speech

 

 

Speech Curriculum

 

1st Semester<br>Public address, speech to inform, special occasion speech, speech to persuade, process speech, quote speech, 8-10 minute oral final; how to prepare and deliver a speech

 

2nd semester<br>One-to-one communications; interviews and resumes; group discussion; radio and television; oral interpretation; other possible topics include debate and parliamentary procedure

 

 

Accelerated English 10 Curriculum

 

MLA documentation and research paper; vocabulary; short stories; non-fiction; poetry; drama - Antigone or I Never Sang for My Father; Shakespeare - A Midsummer Nights Dream, Merchant of Venice, or Julius Caesar; novels - Night by Elie Wiesel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; other possible novels include Cold Sassy Tree and Silas Marner