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Degrees and Certifications:
Bachelor of arts in English literature and history from Northeastern Illinois University in 2006. Masters in the art of teaching from Northeastern Illinois University in 2012.
Mr. Elfinger
Seventh Grade language arts
Poetry list:
My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke
One Perfect Rose by Dorothy Parker
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
If I can stop one Heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
maggie and milly and molly and may, who are you, little i, old age sticks by E.E. Cummings
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney
The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be by Nikki Giovanni
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Short story:
Seventh Grade by Gary Soto
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
Thank You M’am by Langston Hughes
What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? by Avi
The Two Brothers by Leo Tolstoy
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger
Plays:
A Christmas Carol (dramatized by Frederick Gaines)
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
Novels/Novellas
Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
I have been teaching for six years having obtained a masters in education from Northeastern Illinois University in 2012.
selfinger@forestparkschools.org