About Mrs. Esparza
EDUCATION:
BA from The University of Notre Dame
MA from The University of Texas at Austin
Teacher Certification from Texas State University
CLASSROOM: 1519
CLASSROOM PHONE: 704-1698
GOOGLE VOICE NUMBER: (512) 981-6905
E-MAIL: mary_esparza@roundrockisd.org
CLASSES TAUGHT: AP English III, Dual Credit English III
TUTORIALS: Tues. 8:30 -- 9:15 am & Tues. 4:30 -- 5:15 pm Use Google Meet Join Code: RRHSesparzatutorials
My Schedule
(The following assumes a normal bell schedule)
A Day:
1st Period (9:05 -- 10:35) Dual Credit English III
2nd Period (10:43 -- 12:14) Dual Credit English III
3rd Period (12:21 -- 2:34) Conference
4th Period (2:42 -- 4:20) AP English III
B Day:
5th Period (9:05 -- 10:35) AP English III
6th Period (10:43 -- 12:14) AP English III
7th Period (12:21 -- 1:59) AP English III
8th Period (2:42 -- 4:20) Conference
My son-in-law, Martin, my daughters, Adriana & Elena, and my son, Michael -- in Grand Lake, Colorado.
My perfect grandson, Mateo!
BOOKS I READ:
SUMMER 2020: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi; The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead; The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich; Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips; The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
SUMMER 2019: Dopesick by Beth Macy; The Power by Naomi Alderman; Give Us the Ballot by Ari Bergman; The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore; The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu; In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez; White Teeth by Zadie Smith; Parkland by David Cullen; Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
SUMMER 2018: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman; Educated by Tara Westover; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones; The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann; On Writing by Stephen King
SUMMER 2017: Americanah by Chimimando Ngozi Adichie; A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes; Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi; A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman; Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward; Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward; Born a Crime by Trevor Noah; The Sellout by Paul Beatty; The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford; Zone One by Colson Whitehead
SUMMER 2016: A Visit from the Goon Squad; Evicted; Ghettocide; Annie John; Breaking Night; Housekeeping; The Handmaid's Tale
SUMMER 2015: The New Jim Crow; When She Awoke; Between the World and Me; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; Native Son; The Grapes of Wrath
SUMMER 2014: The Omnivore's Dilemma; Orphan Train; David and Goliath; East of Eden; The Street; Everything That Remains; Unbroken; Coming of Age in Mississippi; And the Mountains Echoed; Enrique's Journey
SUMMER 2013: Slaughterhouse-Five; Columbine; Divergent; Black Hawk Down; The Tortilla Curtain; Gilead; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Justice; The Fault in Our Stars; The Dressmaker of Khair Khana; Manuscript Found in Accra
SUMMER 2012: Invisible Man; Brown; In Cold Blood; The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Freeman
SUMMER 2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; As I Lay Dying; The Great Influenza; Sula; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; The Hunger Games; Moonflower Vine
SUMMER 2010: Dreamers of the Day; The Book Thief; Nectar in a Sieve; Life and Death in Shanghai; The Worst Hard Time; The Devil's Highway; The Girl Who Played With Fire; Mr. Pip; Zlata's Diary; Red Scarf Girl; Dust Tracks on a Road; The Help