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I am working on my PhD in Classics from the University of Pittsburgh, while living in the Bay Area. I have received my Master's in Classics from UPitt and graduated cum laude from Pomona College with a double major in Classics and Geology. I have taught college-level Latin, semesters 1-3 as a TA and TF in Pittsburgh, as well as courses in classical mythology and Roman civilization.
5 Subjects:
including
Latin,
Greek,
physical science,
geology
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...As a sideline to my regular duties as a VP of Planning, I was the regular speech writer for the President of ITT and several other company executives. I've studied speeches and techniques of the great speakers of the last two millenia, from Demosthenes and Cicero, Plato (Socrates)and Miletus to Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and up to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
17 Subjects:
including
Latin,
reading,
English,
grammar
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...That is, the instructor and the student constructively argued his or her points of view, while listening, appreciating, absorbing, and remaining open-minded to adversarial ideas. This is the method I choose for tutoring my students. I have also lectured in seminars in English and American Literature at the University of Nevada, Reno.
18 Subjects:
including
Latin,
English,
reading,
French
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...After asking about things the student likes to do for fun, I let the student do most of the talking -- usually about non-academic topics, such as sports, games, movies, crafts, etc. -- unless the student prefers to discuss academic interests. After learning about the student's interests in doing...
47 Subjects:
including
Latin,
English,
reading,
writing
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...Straight out of graduation, I received an offer for a full-time Latin instructional position at a charter school in the prestigious BASIS system in Arizona. I have worked with a variety of beginning to intermediate textbooks, including Wheelock, Cambridge, Linney, Ecce Romani!, Latin for America...
7 Subjects:
including
Latin,
writing,
grammar,
SAT reading
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