User:Gsotir

I am a schoolteacher who teaches 8th grade English in a rough and tumble inner city school in Los Angeles. I am a proud union member and the multimedia director for CAMS, the Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools. I like teaching Shakespeare, Sophocles, and the Bill of Rights. I don't like NCLB!

I blog as apple pie.

CAMS website

And now a poem. (I do teach English after all.)

When I Read the Book

When I read the book, the biography famous,

And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?

And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?

(As if any man really knew aught of my life,

Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,

Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections

I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

by Walt Whitman