...The students make connections between the text and their lives, global or historical events, and other texts. We practice making inferences, predictions, visualizations, and observations. I lead students through the process of essay writing, from brainstorming and note-taking to research and structure, and sentence-by-sentence syntax and eloquence. (read more)
...I have also taught classes in sociolinguistics for both college students and older adults. I obtained my doctorate in linguistics in 2019 from the CUNY Graduate Center. I also currently teach classes in linguistics and sociolinguistics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. (read more)
...For the past ten years I have tutored young people as well as adults in writing and reading. I work with private school students, as well as those in less privileged school districts, finding it particularly rewarding to tap into the hidden potential of those for whom learning is challenging. My areas of expertise are reading and writing. (read more)
...My interest in Latin and Ancient Greek began while I was in high school. I became interested dramatic literature, so I decided to read English translations of the surviving Greek tragedies. I enjoyed them so much that I thought it would be better to study them in their original language. (read more)