About me: Since my job offer from Hogwarts never quite arrived, I've made my home at Liverpool High School instead. This is my seventeenth year teaching English Language Arts to students who are magical in their own right. In addition to teaching English 11 Honors, Writing Workshop 2, Gender Issues, and Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) English 12, I am also the Department Chair for the English department. As my students will tell you, every book I teach is my favorite book - but I'm especially partial to Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I'm a Ravenclaw, on Team Peeta, and I'm prepared to volunteer as Tribute.