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Jeremiah B.

Private tutor in Decatur, GA

Education

Master’s of Teaching English, 2008 • 3.9 GPA • 18 hours of Graduate English courses Bachelor’s of .Arts, English, 2006 • 3.6 GPA Graduated Cum Laude • Member of Sigma Tau Delta, The National English Honors Society • Member of Golden Key National Honors Society • Recipient of Glenn Hollingsworth Memorial English Scholarship • A student on the National Dean’s List • Recipient of HOPE Scholarship

Experience

Experience January 2014-Present Georgia Perimeter College—Part-Time English Instructor • English 2300: World Literature 1 Instructor—I have ben currently teaching a section of World Lit 1 that focuses on literature from the beginning of time to the Renaissance. We cover a variety of texts from throughout the world such as Egyptian Love Poems, ancient Chinese poetry, Beowulf, Machiavelli, The Canterbury Tales, and so forth. August 2012-Present Gwinnett County Public Schools—Meadowcreek High School • 11th Grade AP English Language and Composition—This class is an in depth study of rhetoric and writing set to the backdrop of American Literature. The students learn how to analyze the complexities of nonfiction texts, identify rhetorical strategies, and produce finely developed and balanced prose. We study classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin models of argumentation and rhetorical jargon, while reading a vast quantity of nonfiction literature, such as Enlightenment Philosophy, American Colonial political essays, abolitionist and civil rights literature, presidential speeches, Transcendental expositions, and contemporary exposes. This class prepares students to write, read, and test on a college level. • County Lesson Plan Writer—I am one of the few lesson plan writers for the entire county. I use the county standards to create and write original lesson plans for teachers to utilize in their classrooms. • American Literature Lead Teacher—I am the lead teacher for 11th grade AM. Lit. so I hold weekly meetings with the other teachers on my team to discuss curriculum, grading practices, skill development, planning, student concerns, testing, lesson plans, and best practices. I also mentor the new teachers that either are recent graduates of college or simply are from different areas and are new to Meadowcreek. • Literacy Leadership Team (LLT)—I serve on the LLT team to help facilitate, develop, and lead the English Department at Meadowcreek. I help plan and implement the school-wide literacy and writing goals for the school and provide writing/close-reading training for non-Language Arts teachers. • 11th Grade American Literature Teacher—Along with literature, this class focuses on persuasive and argumentative writing. March 2011-October 2013 Anthem College Online • Adjunct English 101 Online Instructor—This class teaches college-level writing through the utilization of 4 rhetorical modes: anecdotal, comparison and contrast, process analysis, and argumentative writing. I lead weekly online lectures through Adobe Connect where the students can either watch a live stream or view the recording of the presentation. Adobe Connect allows viewing students to pose questions and interact with me throughout the lecture. The students complete a series of 5 reading/writing assignments weekly that revolve around one of the 4 rhetorical modes, and then produce an essay in the same style weekly. I teach from the text Successful College Writing and the students read a variety of nonfiction selections from Frank McCourt, William F. Buckley, Brent Staples, and Ed Grabianowski. • Adjunct English 095 Online Instructor—This course serves to develop the writing skills of remedial students who enter college below the appropriate college writing level. Anthem utilizes the online program My Fundamental Skills to learn and practice specific writing abilities, such as syntax construction, comma and punctuation usage, paragraph development, formal diction recognition, and essay construction. As it is in English 101, I lead weekly online lectures that focus on specific writing skills. August 2010-May 2012 Fulton Science Academy High School—Alpharetta, GA • Honors Track English Teacher: o 9th Grade Honors English—This is a Western Canon-based course that focuses on developing new high school students for the rigors of the honors track. I build on the vocabulary of the students by teaching Greek Morphemes, while covering a wide span of literature throughout the year to build on their knowledge of canonized texts that have appeared on the AP English exam. I teach novels by surrounding them with short stories and poetry that compliment the themes, characters, and meaning of the texts. Texts that I tend to cover are Mythology, The Odyssey, The Penelopiad, Oedipus the King, The Pearl, The Old Man and the Sea, Anthem, Fahrenheit 451, A Farewell to Arms, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, and at least 1 independent novel. o 10th Grade Honors English—This class continues to build on the students wide understandings of the progressions and movements of Western Literature. The students are challenged to produce more interpretive explications of the things we read, which is a wide variety of poetry, short stories and novels. Some texts that are covered in the class are as follows: Frankenstein, Dracula, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” The Violent Bare it Away, Southern Gothic short stories (Faulkner, O’Connor) Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, “The Death of Ivan Illych,” 1984, existential short stories and nonfiction (Camus, Kafka, Sartre, Hemingway), The Awakening, “The Dead,” A Doll’s House, The Tempest, and Things Fall Apart. o AP Language and Composition/American Literature—This class is an in depth study of rhetoric and writing set to the backdrop of American Literature. The students learn how to analyze the complexities of nonfiction texts, identify rhetorical strategies, and produce finely developed and balanced prose. We study classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin models of argumentation and rhetorical jargon, while reading a vast quantity of nonfiction literature, such as Enlightenment Philosophy, American Colonial political essays, abolitionist and civil rights literature, presidential speeches, Transcendental expositions, and contemporary exposes. This class prepares students to write, read, and test on a college level. August 2010-February 2011 ITT Technical Institute—Duluth, GA • Adjunct English Composition 1 Instructor—This 10 week class scaffolds the writing process of one essay throughout the entire semester. The students progress through the semester by learning how to identify main ideas, develop sentences, properly utilize mechanics, develop paragraphs, use variable diction, link paragraphs, research and synthesize references, and utilize the writing process to develop, edit and finalize an essay. This course, as designed by ITT Tech’s corporate office, does not require the students to read any actual pieces of professional writing and there are not any examples in the text book that is used, so I supplemented the course with selections from the text 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. I would bring in selections that complimented what I was teaching that week. Some of the authors presented in the text are Zora Neil Hurston, Langston Hughes, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Stephanie Ericson, and David Sedaris. June 2010- August 2010 Academic Advantage Tutoring – Tucker, GA • Tutored a variety of students ranging from 8 years to college level. • Subjects: Reading, math, SAT/ACT, college writing, social studies, language arts August 2009- May 2010: Nashville State Community College—Nashville, TN English 1020 Instructor—This course offered me much more personal freedom to develop it as I saw fit. The course spanned a traditional semester that covered 5 months, for which I divided the units into specific methods of development. One unit would focus on developing a point through definition and comparison, while another unit would focus on using examples and cause/effect. There were 4 units a semester that each covered 4 weeks. Within each of those units, the students would write 2 formal essays covering the same specific modes of development for that unit. The students would compose the 1st essay of the unit, then I would grade it and discuss what they each individually need to improve on, and they would write a new essay utilizing the same modes of development implementing their individual improvements. For this class, we used the text A World of Ideas, which has great pieces of nonfiction in it by Plato, Machiavelli, Thoreau, Rousseau, Marx, and a variety of contemporary writers. 2008-2009 SES TUTOR: Huntington Learning Center—Nashville, TN • SES Tutor (Supplemental Educational Services) • Tutored children from grades 1st-9th in math and reading August 2008- August 2010 Metro Nashville Public Schools—Stratford Comprehensive High School—Nashville, TN • 9th Grade English 1 and AVID Teacher—SCHS is an inner-city, urban title 1 school that had the highest concentration of free reduced lunch students than any other school in Nashville. Upon my arrival, I and the other 9th English teacher improved the passing rate of Freshmen English EOCT scores from 80% to 97%. Because the student population possessed much higher spirits and independence than the typical student, classroom engagement and differentiation were essential elements in my planning and development of classroom activities and assessments. Though the class was rarely silent, the students were actively engaged. While at SCHS, I taught Tears of a Tiger, Dreams From My Father, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The Pact, and a variety of poetry and short stories. 2007-2008 Fulton County School System - Centennial High School—Roswell, GA • English II (World Literature) and English III (American Literature) Teacher—This was my 1st experience as a classroom teacher. The population was probably my most “typical” middle-class collection of students. I had a co-taught inclusive classroom for 10th grade that helped me to differentiate assignments and exams for students with accommodations. While at CHS, I had 100% passing rate on the EOCT. • 2007 Huntington Learning Center—Woodstock, GA • SAT/ACT Instructor/English and Math Tutor 2006-2007 Total Learning Concepts Lilburn, GA • SAT/ACT Instructor/English and Math Tutor • I privately tutored Mr. Shane Weavers for a period of three months during the summer of 2006. We worked on a home-school curriculum that covered reading comprehension, rhetorical skills, and grammar.

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Up to 30 minutes away at my regular hourly rate

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I am a powerlifting coach, I love reading, NFL and college football, playing music, and hanging out with my children and awesome wife!

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