$105 non-refundable deposit to the Tampa Bay HEAT. Pay just the deposit with a payment plan today, or pay in full. This course will have a focus primarily on American literature including fiction, non-fiction, dramas, and poetry. We will be making inferences, drawing conclusions, and conducting literary analysis. Students should also expect advanced grammar lessons and a study on linguistics. An advanced MLA-formatted research essay will be written. Book list: Don Quixote, The Great Gatsby, The Screwtape Letters, and A Grief Observed We will also read Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare- I provide those scripts. Supplies needed: You will need something to write with/on. Some students choose to bring their laptops or iPads, but a notebook and pen is great! I also strongly recommend students keep a binder to keep all graded papers and assignments together in one spot for portfolio review. Book list which is TBD (no textbook required). Contact: Amy Loesch via text (314-596-6535) or email (heatgrammarian@gmail.com) with any questions I will be teaching English 1, 2, and 3, Creative Writing, Public Speaking, World History, and American History. I graduated in 2009 with a BA in Religious Education. I continued my MA in Teaching in Secondary English, but had to stop shy of my semester of student teaching due to deployment. Since then, I've been a substitute teacher at Providence Classical Christian Academy in St. Louis, MO, have been homeschooling my four children since winter of 2016, and have taught numerous classes with the HEAT program. My philosophy is that no student learns exactly the same as another and that learning should be hard work but FUN!