Hello, students and parents!
Welcome to the 2018 - 2019 school year. I am looking forward to working with all of you in the coming school year. Please visit the pages of my website regularly for links, handouts, assignments, reading lists, and other information. Please note that if you are having trouble opening a link to an assignment, it may work more effectively if you are logged into your petk12.org email account. Feel free to contact me via email at [email protected] if you have questions or need assistance. -- Ms. Hilary Smith English Department Petaluma High School |
Educational Background and InterestsClaremont McKenna College - B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Literature
University College, Oxford University - Study Abroad Program San Francisco State University - M.A., English Literature Chapman University - Single Subject Teaching Credential 2016 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize Short Listee 2015 Southern California Genealogical Society Family Writing Contest Finalist. Favorite Authors: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Elmore Leonard, Thomas Hardy, Stephen King, and Edith Wharton Areas of Interest: Gothic novels, Victorian novels, and British Romanticism, especially the poetry of John Keats Favorite Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Tess of the D'urbervilles Publications: "The Enduring Appeal of Nancy Drew." The Nancy Drew Anthology. Silver Birch Press, Sept. 2016. "My Grandmother, Naughty Betty." The Searcher. Southern California Genealogical Society, Winter 2017. "My Literary BFF, Jane Eyre: How to be "Tenacious of Life." The Need to Read: My Best Literary Friend. The Sitting Room, June 2017. |