Haley+Tanner

My name is Haley Tanner and I am currently a Senior at Clemson University pursuing a degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in English. I am from Seneca, SC. I am currently student teaching at Walhalla High School, mainly teaching British to American literature to Seniors. I hope to teach in the Metropolitan Nashville Public School system when I graduate.I have always wanted to be a teacher, ever since I was in elementary school. I used to "play" teacher in my room with my dry-erase board. I love to work with kids and impact their lives in a way that so many of my teachers did in my own learning journey. I want to give students a positive role model who serves them a purpose of teaching them the things they will need in life to succeed! Personally, I like reading Young Adult literature and American literature. I also enjoy writing poetry and songs. In my spare time I enjoy spending time with family, friends, hiking, traveling to Nashville, going to church, concerts, and Clemson football games.

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This site is useful for English teachers that need help adding supplemental materials to any type of lesson. If the teacher knows what books or themes they want to teach, there are many supplemental materials from this website that they can add to make their instruction more differentiated.

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This website is useful for teachers that want to vary their student's writing assignments. This site also has helpful tips for students on the writing process and developing their writing.

This Glogster was made to help introduce myself and represent who I am to my future class. Glogster is an interactive poster board essentially. A teacher could use this as a way to make interactive book/movie posters for something they are studying or this could be used as a way to introduce characters from books in an inventive way. My Glogster below is a person glogster that reflects some things that I feel help people to understand me. I have pictures of my loved ones, clip art of things like Clemson, an apple for teaching, and a cross represent my relationship with Jesus. I also have a video of a singer/songwriter who writes with my boyfriend and is seen perfoming in my boyfriend's studio in Nashville, TN, which is where I want to move after I graduate. media type="custom" key="24883316" align="center"


 * A Comet Appears **
 * The Shins. ** W ritten by [|James Mercer]

One hand on this wily comet Take a drink just to give me some weight Some uber-man I'd make I'm barely a vapor

They shone a chlorine light on A host of individual sins Let's carve my aging face off Fetch us a knife Start with my eyes Down so the lines Form a grimacing smile

Close your eyes to corral a virtue Is this fooling anyone else? Never worked so long and hard To cement a failure

We can blow on our thumbs and posture But the lonely is such delicate things The wind from a wasp could blow them Into the sea, With stones on their feet Lost to the light and the loving we need

Still to come, The worst part and you know it There is a numbness In your heart and it's growing

With burnt sage and a forest of bygones I click my heels Get the devils in line A list of things I could lay the blame on Might give me a way out

But with each turn It's this front and center Like a dart stuck square in your eye Every post you can hitch your faith on Is a pie in the sky Chock full of lies A tool we devise To make sinking stones fly

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I think this song speaks to problem with society today in relevance to the individual in society. It seems that the individual is lost in the need for society to push them, crush them, and mold them into looking like everyone else and hiding anything that doesn't fit in that mold. This person is obviously feeling lonely and has done some bad things, but they must hide them in order to survive in society. The loneliness and despair is from the heart so we look to someone else or something else to look to for help and to blame. The person knows that it's all for nothing, because it really is humanity that is putting this on each other.

**Why Choose Clemson University** media type="custom" key="25015596"

Jeopardy Game Template! Knoword.org is a website that aids in teaching adults vocabulary that they should know and can use in everyday life. This would be good for an SAT class or a class of AP. http://www.knoword.org

Our Book Trailer Project My group (Jordan, Blake, and Cailtin) chose to create a book trailer for the book "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. media type="custom" key="25606980"