My Professional Portfolio

Welcome to my professional portfolio!  My name is Laura, and I am a a student at the University of Pittsburgh in Johnstown.  I am a senior who majors in Secondary English Education and student teaches at Forest Hills Middle School.  I am working to earn my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Secondary English Education with a minor in Creative Writing.  My present interests include reading, writing poetry, exercising, playing tennis, skiing, and spending time with friends and family.   
 

My Professional Portfolio

Some of my favorite links

Read some of my favorite quotes

My scavenger hunt on the subject of Ernest Hemingway

Find out about my family roots

Here are some of the classes I have taken in the past year:

1. Education for the Information Age
2. Instructional Technology for Secondary Education
3. Directed Practicum in Instructional Technology
4. General Methods
5. English/Composition Methods
6. Reading in the Content Areas
7. Introduction to Shakespeare
8. American Literary Traditions
9. American Poetry
10. Introduction to Creative Writing
11. Introduction to Descriptive Writing
12. Poetry Writing
13. Oral Interpretation of Literature
14. Grammar Review

Here is a listing of some of my favorite authors:

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Raymond Carver
4. Mary Karr
5. Stephen King
6. John Grisham
7. Ralph Ellison
8. Anne Tyler
9. Jane Austen
10. Dava Sobel