While studying at school he wrote for The Anchor, GSCU’s school newspaper, worked as an Editor and Contributor to The Chestatee Review, GSCU’s creative writing publication, made several student films and portrayed a ghost in The Gainesville Theater Alliance’s presentation of A Christmas Carol. Later, he worked as a Paraprofessional for 4 years at Forsyth Central High School as well as a full time musician (and somehow still found time to go to school!).

Now working as an English Teacher at So and So High School, he is still pursuing higher education working on his Master’s Degree and hopes that it takes a wee bit less time than his other degrees. When he’s not wearing his teacher hat he still plays music part time and enjoys camping with his family in any location that he can fit his camper into and reading anything from Clive Cussler to Voltaire.

Literacy is critical to success in any English Lit. and Comp. class but it means more than just having your basic reading and writings skills. Although these are the fundamental building blocks that students need to function we will be exploring new areas of literacy that include analytical thinking, abstract thought, reasoning deduction and contextualization of the material. In other words, we’re going to take what we read, kick it around a bit and see what all we can come up with besides just summing up what we read in a few words. We are going to jump into why the author wrote it, what it might mean now and what it meant when it was written and how we can make it real in the here and now instead of just being some old story written by a dead guy a long time ago. The skills we develop in this class will help students learn and understand material in just about every other class as well as throughout their lives. By using multiple approaches in learning I hope to make a class that is not only relevant and engaging to students but fun as well!