Caitlin+Jordan

Caitlin Jordan My name is Caitlin Jordan. I am a senior at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina although I am originally from Kennebunkport, Maine. I am currently participating in my student teaching at Pickens High School where I am enjoying the challenges and successes of teaching American Literature to 11th graders. In my free time I enjoy reading, cooking, and spending time with my family and friends.

OWL Purdue Writing Lab @https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ OWL Purdue Writing Lab is an essential tool for students writing papers and citing sources in a variety of formats including MLA, APA, and Chicago. IT provides students with guidelines regarding types of potential sources and their proper citations, footnotes, bibliographies, and works cited pages. Easy Bib @http://www.easybib.com/ Easy Bib provides students with proper citations. It is user-friendly. As long as the student has all of the proper information for a source, the student can create a proper citation by plugging the information into the Easy Bib tabs and allowing Easy Bib to do the rest. The cite is useful for research assignments, and any assignment pertaining to literature that requires the students to cite the author or text.

Glogster is a means to mold together and publish various types of mediums. It is the 21st century equivalent to the old-fashioned tri-fold poster board. My personal Glogster is a personal reflection of a few of my favorite things, including my favorite place in North Carolina and my favorite movie Finding Nemo. Glogster could be used in my classroom as a way of introducing students to one another. They could post about their favorite songs, movies, and foods as a way to get to know each other early in the school year. Glogster could also be used for literary purposes as a type of blog. Students could respond to class readings with images,videos, and texts about how the reading affected them. Students could also create a Glogster for certain characters from the literature they read as a type of project. media type="custom" key="24914128" align="center"

Bob Dylan from Blood on the Tracks (I had to upload the file)
 * Simple Twist of Fate **

They sat together in the park As the evening sky grew dark, She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones. 'Twas then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate.

They walked along by the old canal A little confused, I remember well And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin' bright. He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train Moving with a simple twist of fate.

A saxophone someplace far off played As she was walkin' by the arcade. As the light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin' up, She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate And forgot about a simple twist of fate.

He woke up, the room was bare He didn't see her anywhere. He told himself he didn't care, pushed the window open wide, Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate Brought on by a simple twist of fate.

He hears the ticking of the clocks And walks along with a parrot that talks, Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailers all come in. Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long must he wait Once more for a simple twist of fate.

People tell me it's a sin To know and feel too much within. I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring. She was born in spring, but I was born too late Blame it on a simple twist of fate. media type="file" key="Simple Twist Of Fate.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Response: There's a deep disconnect present in this song. The man seems to feel that he has found his "twin", a type of deep familiarity with this woman who has such an impact upon him that he physically reacts to her. Yet after they sleep together she abandons him and he ends up wandering the docks in the following morning just hoping that she will pick him out of the crowd of sailors and return to him. There's an interesting dichotomy between the physical and the spiritual. There is no comment on the morality of the couple's physical relationship, but in the last stanza Dylan claims that its a sin to "feel too much". There is an overwhelming sense of hollowness. When the man wakes up and realizes that the woman has left him, he has to forcefully tell himself that he doesn't care about her, as if he is afraid of his own feelings and he isn't able to connect with himself. The repetition of the word "fate" repeatedly brings me back to the feeling of helplessness because fate is something beyond the realm of human control, and yet the last line of the song in which the man "blames" his loneliness on fate is interesting b ecause in reality the woman made the choice to leave him; it was not as if something tragic or unexpected happened to the woman and she was forced by circumstance to leave him.

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Technology Tool for Learning Vocabulary [|Learning SAT Words]

This website is great for practicing SAT vocabulary because it provides opportunities for students to play interactive games including matching, completing the sentence, and word confusion. I would use this in my 11th grade classroom as a part of the College Portfolio Unit.

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