Kelsey+Monteith

My name is Kelsey Monteith. I am a junior Secondary Ed. English major from Clover, SC. I enjoy spending lots of time with my family and friends, eating yummy food, and loving life as a Clemson tiger. After graduation I hope to return to Clover and teach at either my old high school or one of the surrounding middle schools. My favorite type of literature is young adult/adolescent, and I hope to be able to teach these types of books in the future. I would like to begin my teaching career with middle school or lower high school level and move to higher levels as I gain more experience.

@https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

 * The Purdue Owl website gives examples and explanations of MLA formatting. The website gives general formatting guides as well as detailed descriptions on citing sources. The website is very useful when teaching how to cite various sources and create a works cited page.

@http://www.englishteacherwebsites.com/resourcest/poetryarchive.html

 * The Poetry Archive gives teachers examples of how to make poetry relatable and relevant to students. The website also has a teacher section with resources such as lesson plans and useful ideas on how to expose the class to poetry in an enjoyable manner.

My Glogster is an "all about me." I included media that describes my friends, family, hometown, and favorite animals. I would like for my page to portray myself as a person who enjoys the simple things in life. Glogster would be useful in the English classroom by having students create a book poster page including setting, characters, and media explaining the main events. Students would also be able to use Glogster for solely focusing on characters and create a personal page for each character in a novel. media type="custom" key="24923340"


 * Remember the Mountain Bed **

** Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II **
Words: Woody Guthrie 1944. Music: Tweedy/Bennett 1999

Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves? Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds? You laughed as I covered you over with leaves Face, breast, hips, and thighs You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes

Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...

I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands

I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight: My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again

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My Response: Remember the Mountain Bed is not exactly my favorite type of song, but I do enjoy its calm and peaceful nature. The first stanza set the tone of a love song mixed in with lots of nature as he seems to refer to someone he once loved. The description of a woman's body and characteristics show the close bond the two shared and the attraction that was once felt. The next four stanzas continue to describe the couples relationship and times they shared together enjoying nature. In the end of the fifth stanza it mentions death, which most likely sounds as if the couple separated in some manner. The sixth stanza as a tone of sadness and remorse as the author seems to miss the one he loves. However, in the seventh and eighth stanzas mention that the couple possibly split in order for each partner to go out and fulfill whatever aspirations they may have on their own, such as young couples would do in transition from high school to college. In the final ninth stanza the author confirms his loneliness and that it has finally been fulfilled now that he has returned back to his lover and apparently the child that they have had together at some point.

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Teaching Vocabulary with Technology

From @http://www.vocabulary.co.il/word-play/vocabulary-quiz/ there is a game entitled "vocabulary quiz." The game has been created thanks to a teacher. Players are able to choose from 16 topics such as "animal kingdom, law and order, opposites and synonyms, etc." with 1627 questions. Once a player has chosen their topic the game will present a sentence with a blank where the vocabulary word should be. The player will choose from a list of 4 possible answers while also being timed. The game keeps track of the players score and lets them know if the answer is correct or incorrect. The game would be very useful for teachers if they teach vocabulary that matches the several topics the game offers. Also, students will be happy to play the game and compete for the best time and score over their fellow classmates.

"Choose Your Own" Adventure Story! Business Trip Gone Wrong

Macara, Blake, Kara, and I created a fun adventure story about five men's business trip that went terribly wrong. After crashing into the ocean near and island on the way to Australia our main character had to choose his fate with monkey's, Indians, or just on his own. The project is a great way to incorporate creative writing while also allowing readers to create the story for themselves.

"The Great Gatsby" Book Trailer

@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUGAV9P8KI&feature=youtu.be