Jessalyn Boeke

Contact Information:

• 216.831.8600
• jboeke@orangecsd.org

Office Hours and Location:

• Room 110
• Best way to contact is via email at any time or by phone from 2:30-3:30

Teaching Philosophy/Motto

I'm devoted to creating engaging, high-quality classroom environments that provoke thought and creativity in order to improve student achievement and foster an authentic passion for life-long learning at all levels.

Education

Masters of Education: Liberal Arts with a focus in Comparative Literature, The Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Science in Education; Integrated Language Arts, Kent State University

Experience

Jessalyn Boeke has been with Orange City Schools since 2014 Her teaching and related experience includes:

English Instructor:

• Orange City Schools

English Instructor:

• Aberdeen High School, Aberdeen, MD
• North Harford High School, Pylesville, MD

Class Supply Lists

Honors English 9 requires personal copies -either borrowed or bought- of the following books:

- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

-Lord of the Flies by William Golding

-The Odyssey (Fitzgerald Translation)

First they Killed my Father by Loung Ung

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library edited by Mowat and Werstine

English 11 CP requires personal copies -either borrowed or bought- of the following books:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• Into the Wild by John Krakauer
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Honors English 10 requires personal copies -either borrowed or bought- of the following books:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Theban Plays by Sophocles
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo