Dr. Nereim
Room 5-210
Michele.Nereim@tvcs.org
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DE Creative Writing
DE Creative Writing
Overview
Overview
This course places students in the driver's seat, as writers. They will learn through direct instruction, analysis of famous short stories, production of their own creative texts, and peer workshop. The course will explore the major components of literary fiction and techniques with which students might craft high-quality work. Equipped with this knowledge, students will learn to experience texts and media not just as armchair academics but as creators, more attuned to artistic choices of structure and detail.
The LSSC fall semester runs from August 18th to LSSC exam week (December 8-12).
Primary Texts:
Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway
Assorted short stories
Supply List
Supply List
3-ring, 3-inch binder + 5 dividers (can recycle for DE Lit)
Paper
Pens / pencils
Highlighters / colored pencils (various colors)
Highlighting strips for book annotation (Post-It notes & sticky tabs are also useful)
Allowed (but not required): headphones
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DE Introduction to Literature
DE Introduction to Literature
Overview
Overview
This course is designed to enhance personal appreciation of literature, hone critical thinking skills, and provide instruction in the MLA research paper. Introduction to Literature presents the major literary forms, skills in reading and writing about literature, their distinctive characteristics and conventions, principal literary themes, and different critical approaches. This introductory course prepares students for further literary study. This course includes reading, speaking, and writing competencies.
The LSSC spring semester runs from January 12th to LSSC exam week (April 27 - May 5).
Primary Texts:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Everything Everywhere All at Once, directed by Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan
Supply List
Supply List
3-ring binder + dividers
Paper
Pens / pencils
Highlighters / colored pencils (various colors)
Highlighting strips for book annotation (Post-It notes & sticky tabs are also useful)
Allowed (but not required): headphones
AP Language & Composition
AP Language & Composition
Overview
Overview
In this college-level course, students will sharpen their rhetorical analysis, argument, and synthesis skills. The course will culminate in the taking of the AP Lang exam, which includes a multiple-choice section and three essays, all timed. A score of "3" (out of "5") or higher is required by most universities for college credit. The course is challenging and will push students to develop their writing, reading, and analytical skills.
Supply List
Supply List
3-ring binder + dividers (sharing with other classes is fine)
Paper
Pens / pencils
Highlighters / colored pencils (various colors)
Recommended but not required:
Highlighting strips for book annotations
(Post-Its and sticky tabs are also useful)Headphones for independent work time
Dr. Michele Nereim
Dr. Michele Nereim
Bio
Bio
Contact Me: Michele.Nereim@tvcs.org
Locally rooted, with over a decade of teaching experience, I earned my BA in English from University of Florida, my MFA from Florida State University, and my PhD in literature & creative writing from the University of Houston, where I was a James A and Isabel M Elkins fellow. I served as Digital and then Managing Editor on the nationally distributed literary journal Gulf Coast. My own creative work has been featured on public radio and was awarded the Joan & Stanford Alexander Prize and the Donald Barthelme Prize for Fiction. My personal research interests are varied and far-reaching--writing craft, neuroscience, history, philosophy, theory & criticism, etc.--and intricately woven into my teaching.
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