First Semester Insanity
Devin and I purchased our first home in Texas and moved in two days before I attended training in Fort Worth. Almost immediately after returning from the trip, I had…
Author: Jazz Reed
Teaching from the Archives | Lesson Plan
This past week, I attended a fun, four-day workshop hosted by the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. This training was designed to aid teachers in creating lesson plans based…
On Graduating
As I graduate from The University of Texas at Austin, I first want to talk about potential. Since I was little, I was always the kid that was full of…
Reflections from Teaching in Secondary
This Fall semester, my UTeach internship consisted of six hours of field work and observations from a 10th grade classroom, and a course in English teaching in High School. In…
VICTORY Tutorials: A Reflection
Introduction This semester, I volunteered for Victory Tutorials through AISD and the Austin Public Library system. I tutored two girls in second and third grade, and they each had different…
Protected: How to Love Better
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She Gave Me of the Tree: Seduction in Medieval Literature
“Then the man said ‘The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate (New King James Version, Gen. 3.12).’” From ancient…
Genre & Irony in Northanger Abbey & Persuasion
Although Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, the two Jane Austen novels to debut after the novelist’s death, were first published and distributed as a packaged set, it is not to be…
The Modern Merlin
In Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, the legendary characters of King Arthur and the wizard Merlin have something like a father-son relationship. Merlin, the right-hand man to King Uther, removes infant…
Shakespearean Character Study | Lesson Plan
Corresponds to I Don’t Believe in Shakespeare article. Lesson Description & Overview Grade: 12, English IV After becoming familiar with the Shakespeare plays, “Richard III,” “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Romeo and…
Literacy in the Life of a Homeschooler
I met Karoline five years ago, on a Friday night. I was hired to provide childcare for the Willson family’s small group meeting at church, and middle-schooler Karoline Willson voluntarily…
Mrs. Reed’s Readers : Communication
Hello, students! I’m Mrs. Reed, and welcome to my English Language Arts class video blogs. I’ve created these videos to help you review some of the key ideas we discuss…