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My name is Steven Shurtleff and I graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelors degree in secondary education with a concentration in English. I earned my Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 2005 from Kent State University. This year will be my fourteenth year as a teacher at Boardman High School. I taught for five years at Salem High School before making the move to Boardman. To prepare myself for Advanced Placement instruction, I completed an AP College Board training course at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. It is with pleasure and enthusiasm that I begin this year of teaching and look forward to a wonderful year of learning. My past experience includes teaching one year of AP Literature and Composition at Salem High School as well as three years of AP Language and Composition and ten years of AP Literature and Composition here at Boardman. I completed my student teaching at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland where I gained experience training students to take the International Baccalaureate, the exam taken by graduating seniors who intend to seek entrance to college in Europe. This test is very similar in nature to the Advanced Placement exam offered by the College Board. Throughout this year, we will be working with novels, plays, short stories and poetry from British, American and World literature. Using past AP exams, students will become familiar, from the first week onward, with the format of the exam and exact questions from past exams.