Enamored with English
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Welcome to Ms. LeeKeenan's website! Thank you for taking an interest in the study of literature and composition. This website is broken up into a series of pages, with resources for students and teachers alike. Students of Ms. LeeKeenan are expected to use the resources provided on their class page to improve and build on their writing, critical thinking, and critical reading skills. Assignments, both short-term and long-term, will be posted on a daily basis and students are expected to keep up with the work, even when absent from class.   |
About Me: My name is Kira LeeKeenan and I, along with my six-year-old daughter and golden retriever, reside in Cambridge, MA. I am an English teacher at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; I currently teach English 10 Honors and AP Literature & Composition. "On Teaching" “I developed The Great Teacher Theory late in my freshman year. It was a cornerstone of the theory that great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined from other kings whose granaries are filled and whose libraries are famous. He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom. Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me. They ride with me during all my days, and I pass on to others what they have imparted to me. I exchange their handy gifts with strangers on trains, and I pretend the gifts are mine. I steal from great teachers. And the truly wonderful thing about them is they would applaud my theft, laugh at the thought of it, realizing they had taught me their larcenous skills well.” From The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy p. 271 Contact Me: Email: kira.leekeenan@gmail.com or kleekeenan@cpsd.us |
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