Username: kwoo1213
Gender: Female
Member since: February 24, 2008
Birthday: December 13, 1969
I am a: Teacher
Grades:
College - Freshman
Subjects:
English / Literature / Writing
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- Answered a question in How I Met My Husband:
The narrator might have been referring to the fact that Dr. Peebles was very... - Answered a question in Trifles:
In a court of law, it is important for a prosecutor to have a motive (reason) for... - Answered a question in The Outsiders:
Ponyboy a more "sensitive" Greaser, I guess one could say. He is very... - Added a post in The Masque of the Red Death:
I certainly don't relish the fact when anyone dies. I do not think the party-goers... - Added a post in A Midsummer Night's Dream:
The faeries that are in A Midsummer Night's Dream are not the... - Added a post in History:
If you are speaking of national and international events, I would have to say... - Added a post in History:
I think lots of valuable and interesting skills have been replaced by technology,... - Added a post in English teachers:
I hope you find something soon that suits you. :) It is such a rewarding... - Added a post in Poetry Forum:
I was just telling my students this morning on their first day of the semester... - Added a post in History:
I would like to know about Stonehenge's purpose, as well. I would also like to... - Answered a question in The Lottery:
You will learn much more about the way the story is composed by clicking on the... - Answered a question in Beowulf:
I tend to believe there are several central issues, among them heroism,... - Answered a question in Othello:
Desdemona is portrayed as the innocent, devoted wife of Othello. She is very... - Added a post in The Awakening:
I think that censorship is very, very dangerous. I do not support the banning of... - Added a post in Math:
As an English major, I honestly wish it was not so important LOL! (I am only...
About Me
Yeah, baby!
Bio
English professor, Foo Fighter fanatic (love, love, love Dave Grohl), single mom of 2 really cool boys, proud North Carolinian and rabid Duke University basketball 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!
Schools
- University of North Carolina-Wilmington - Wilmington, NC, US (1994 - 1998)
Groups
- Martin Luther King, Jr.,
- Teachers,
- The Birthmark,
- Black Self-Esteem,
- Miss Brill,
- Twelfth Night,
- I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—,
- Le Morte d'Arthur,
- Creative Writing,
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree,
- Poetry,
- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,
- The Metamorphosis,
- Science,
- Analogies,
- Bartleby the Scrivener,
- The Scarlet Letter,
- Sonnets,
- William Faulkner,
- Law,
- Reference,
- Literature,
- The Chimney Sweeper,
- The Gift of the Magi,
- Robert Browning,
- The Blue Hotel,
- The Doll’s House,
- Le Morte d’Arthur,
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,
- John Keats,
- Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man,
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,
- Dreams from My Father,
- History Wars,
- Hills Like White Elephants,
- University of Central Florida,
- The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
- It Is a Beauteous Evening,
- Dead Men’s Path,
- Good Country People,
- William Blake,
- Black Boy,
- William Wordsworth,
- Daddy,
- Design,
- Beowulf,
- Home Burial,
- Anne Bradstreet,
- University of North Carolina,
- Mythology/Homer/ Virgil/Sophocles
Favorites
Favorite Books
- A Doll's House,
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
- A Poison Tree,
- 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,
- Black Boy,
- Cathedral,
- Ceremony,
- Coram Boy,
- Dracula,
- Everyday Use,
- Frankenstein,
- Happy Endings,
- Hills Like White Elephants,
- 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,
- Miss Brill,
- 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,
- Paradise Lost,
- Paul's Case,
- Private Lives,
- Pygmalion,
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend,
- Self-Reliance,
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
- Sonny's Blues,
- Stuck in Neutral,
- Sweat,
- The Birthmark,
- The Blue Hotel,
- The Call of the Wild,
- The Canterbury Tales,
- The Cask of Amontillado,
- The Chrysanthemums,
- The Dead,
- The Death of Ivan Ilych,
- The Destructors,
- The Faerie Queene,
- The Fall of the House of Usher,
- The Gift of the Magi,
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,
- The Killers,
- The Lady of Shalott,
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
- The Metamorphosis,
- 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 Build a Fire,
- To Have and Have Not,
- Trifles,
- Twelfth Night,
- Ulysses,
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,
- Why I Live at the P.O.
Favorite Other
- A Summer Tragedy,
- Acting Shakespeare,
- Bartleby the Scrivener,
- Before the Birth of One of Her Children,
- Black Like Me,
- Chicago,
- Dead Men’s Path,
- Design,
- Dulce et Decorum Est,
- First Fight. Then Fiddle,
- Home Burial,
- In Search of Moby Dick,
- It Is a Beauteous Evening,
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,
- The Boarding House,
- The Chimney Sweeper,
- The Convict,
- The Early Middle Ages - Short Fiction,
- The Fifth Child,
- The Five-Forty-Eight,
- The Franklin’s Tale,
- The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
- The Road Not Taken,
- The Silken Tent,
- The Solitary Reaper,
- The Storm,
- The Wife of Bath’s Tale,
- 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

