Username: amy-lepore
Gender: Female
Member since: December 2, 2005
Birthday: February 9, 1968
I am a: Teacher
Grades:
High School - 12th Grade
Subjects:
English / Literature / Writing
New Activity for amy-lepore
- Added a post in the Teachers Group:
Wow! This is great! I teach in a rural area and most of my students will go to... - Added a post in the Teachers Group:
I am reading Brisinger (sp?) the third in the Eragon series. It's quite good,... - Added a post in the Go Ask Alice Group:
This is a very powerful book about the life of a drug addict. I read it at the... - Added a post in the Romeo and Juliet Group:
You might consider the fact that Romeo is on the rebound from Roselyn...that he is... - Added a post in The Scarlet Letter Group:
Throughout the book and in this chapter, Hawthorne is suggesting that the more you... - Added a post in The Yellow Wallpaper Group:
It's tough to recreate first-person narration on-stage unless you have an on-stage... - Answered a question in The Tell-Tale Heart Group:
The eye is the bane of the narrator's existence. It belongs to the old man whom... - Added a post in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Group:
Huck gives a first person account of his feelings toward Jim and how he isn't just... - Added a post in the A Midsummer Night's Dream Group:
Yes!! Without him, we wouldn't have half the humor, and many of the scenes... - Answered a question in the Romeo and Juliet Group:
The deaths of Romeo and Juliet were tragic for several reasons, but to name a... - Added a post in the 1984 Group:
They are willing to do anything EXCEPT not be together anymore. There is no true... - Answered a question in the Macbeth Group:
Shakespeare often wrote plays with characters and themes that compliment the... - Added a post in the Literature Group:
Check out these sites: http://www.redwall.org/ (official... - Answered a question in The Canterbury Tales Group:
Chaucer has nothing very positive to say about any of the members of clergy with... - Added a post in The Scarlet Letter Group:
Arthur Dimmesdale, the local pastor.
About Me
Personal Info
Bio
Born in Bowling Green, KY. Graduated high school from Hopkinsville High in 1986; University of Central Florida with B.S. in 1991; and Murray State University with M.A. in 1996. Taught in Kentucky, South Korea, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Mississippi on both high school and college/university levels. Freelance author. Married with two sons.
Interests
Reading, writing, researching, crafting, singing, outdoors, sports, camping, animals
Groups
- Literature 101,
- Tudor England,
- Reading Strategies,
- Fantasy Fiction,
- Historical Fiction Fans,
- American Literature,
- Personal Reading,
- Mysteries for Middle Schoolers,
- Writing Prompts for War Literature,
- Poetry,
- eNotes Suggestions,
- eNotes Book Club,
- Poetry Forum,
- Mythical history,
- Korea culture,
- Confucius and his times,
- Essay Lab,
- Grammar and Composition,
- My Last Duchess,
- The World Is Too Much with Us,
- Blood Relations,
- Pamela,
- Jaws,
- The Eyes of the Amaryllis,
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,
- The Ransom of Red Chief,
- Cathedral,
- The Lady, or the Tiger?,
- Wilfred Owen,
- The Killer Angels,
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
- A Time To Kill,
- The Glass Menagerie,
- Frindle,
- Peter Pan,
- The Poisonwood Bible,
- Kafka Goes to the Movies,
- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,
- The Old Man and the Sea,
- Lysistrata,
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
- Spelman College,
- A Raisin in the Sun,
- The Pit and the Pendulum,
- Le Morte d’Arthur,
- Everyman,
- Henry IV, Part One,
- Agnes of God
Favorites
Favorite Books
- 1984,
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,
- A Jury of Her Peers,
- A Rose for Emily,
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,
- Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man,
- Beowulf,
- Catch-22,
- Everyman,
- Frankenstein,
- Guide to Literary Terms,
- Gulliver's Travels,
- Hamlet,
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
- Julius Caesar,
- Lord of the Flies,
- Macbeth,
- My Last Duchess,
- Night,
- Ode on a Grecian Urn,
- Ode to My Socks,
- Pygmalion,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- Siddhartha,
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
- Something Wicked This Way Comes,
- Sonnets,
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
- The Canterbury Tales,
- The Crucible,
- The Da Vinci Code,
- The Garden Party,
- The Kugelmass Episode,
- The Lovely Bones,
- The Metamorphosis,
- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,
- The Picture of Dorian Gray,
- The Pit and the Pendulum,
- The Scarlet Letter,
- The Seafarer,
- The Taming of the Shrew,
- The Yellow Wallpaper,
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,
- Trifles,
- Twelve Angry Men
Favorite Other
Favorite Movies
Favorite Quotes
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet..." [More]
Richard Lovelace
"To beguile the time,
Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your..." [More]
William Shakespeare
"My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’..." [More]
William Shakespeare
"I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience torpid through virtuous inaction are..." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the..." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." [More]
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?" [More]
William Butler Yeats
