Username: kwoo1213
Gender: Female
Member since: February 24, 2008
Birthday: December 13, 1969
I am a: Teacher
Grades:
College - Freshman
Subjects:
English / Literature / Writing
About Me
I'm a Foo Fan!
Bio
English professor, Foo Fighter fanatic (love, love, love Dave Grohl), single mom of 2 really cool boys, proud North Carolinian and humongous Duke University fan...
Interests
Spending time with my beautiful children, reading, writing, horseback riding, tennis, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, William Shakespeare, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath,--too many authors to name that I love to read and study!
Groups
- Teacher Book Reviews,
- English teachers,
- Poetry Forum,
- American Literature,
- eNotes Suggestions,
- Literature 101,
- Historical Fiction Fans,
- Personal Reading,
- Mythical history,
- Confucius and his times,
- Health,
- The Secret River,
- Essay Lab,
- Grammar and Composition,
- Literature in Film and Television,
- Staley's AP English Class,
- Technology in the Classroom,
- Paul's Case,
- The Faerie Queene,
- The Swiss Family Robinson,
- Lakota Woman,
- Declaration of Independence,
- The Canterbury Tales,
- The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks,
- The Lady of Shalott,
- The Five-Forty-Eight,
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
- Stuck in Neutral,
- John Adams,
- Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson,
- The Elephant Man,
- The Midwife's Apprentice,
- My Antonia,
- A Walk in the Woods,
- The Education of Little Tree,
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Writte,
- The Color of Water,
- Julius Caesar,
- The Solitary Reaper,
- The Unknown Citizen,
- The Dead,
- The Old Man and the Sea,
- When the Legends Die,
- The Pit and the Pendulum,
- Mulatto,
- Dracula
Favorites
Favorite Books
- A Doll's House,
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
- A Rose for Emily,
- A White Heron,
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,
- Araby,
- Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man,
- Ceremony,
- Coram Boy,
- Dracula,
- Everyday Use,
- Frankenstein,
- Happy Endings,
- How I Met My Husband,
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
- i was sitting in mcsorley's,
- Jane Eyre,
- La Belle Dame sans Merci,
- Last Night,
- Le Morte d'Arthur,
- Leaves of Grass,
- Moby Dick,
- Mourning Becomes Electra,
- Mulatto,
- My Antonia,
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself,
- Ode on a Grecian Urn,
- Othello,
- Paul's Case,
- Private Lives,
- Pygmalion,
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend,
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
- Stuck in Neutral,
- Sweat,
- The Call of the Wild,
- The Canterbury Tales,
- The Cask of Amontillado,
- The Chrysanthemums,
- The Death of Ivan Ilych,
- The Destructors,
- The Faerie Queene,
- The Fall of the House of Usher,
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,
- The Lady of Shalott,
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
- The Monkey's Paw,
- The Old Man and the Sea,
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,
- The Outsiders,
- The Pit and the Pendulum,
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
- The Rocking-Horse Winner,
- The Sniper,
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro,
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
- The Swiss Family Robinson,
- The Things They Carried,
- The Waste Land,
- To Have and Have Not,
- Trifles,
- Twelfth Night,
- Ulysses,
- Why I Live at the P.O.
Favorite Other
- A Summer Tragedy,
- Acting Shakespeare,
- Black Like Me,
- Chicago,
- Dulce et Decorum Est,
- First Fight. Then Fiddle,
- In Search of Moby Dick,
- The Boarding House,
- The Chimney Sweeper,
- The Convict,
- The Fifth Child,
- The Five-Forty-Eight,
- The Solitary Reaper,
- The Storm,
- To an Athlete Dying Young,
- To Sir, with Love,
- Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Favorite Quotes
"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present." [More]
Albert Camus
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down." [More]
Robert Frost
"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy." [More]
Robert Frost
"A book lives as long as it is unfathomed." [More]
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
"You’re going to women? Don’t forget your whip!" [More]
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the..." [More]
Anne Sexton
"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not..." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." [More]
Oscar Wilde
"I can resist everything except temptation." [More]
Oscar Wilde
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