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=Welcome to American Literature=

Mr. Josefino Rivera, Jr. jrivera@aosr.org

A AP Language and Composition B Prep C English 10 D American Literature E Prep F English 10 G American Literature H Prep

**Educational Philosophy** I believe that a classroom is a place of exploration. It must be an environment where ideas can be formed, deconstructed, reformed, and synthesized. To that end, then, a classroom must be a safe place. It must be a safe space to form individual identities and to especially form academic identities. I believe mistakes are where learning begins. I want my students to learn to love mistakes. I also believe that working on mistakes and errors are the means to proficiency and mastery.

**Objectives** To establish that education is a life long process To create articulate communicators and critically conscious citizens of the world To show the power and beauty in literature

**Education** AA Psychology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA BA English, University of Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara, CA  MA Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

**Hobbies** reading, learning languages, traveling, playing the piano and cello, singing, hiking, kayaking, swimming, eating, and, of course, thinking.

Toni Morrison: //The Bluest Eye, Sula// Ralph Ellison: //Invisible Man// Virginia Woolf: //Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own// Tennessee Williams: //Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire// Fyodor Dostoyevsky: //Notes from Underground, Poor Folk, The Double// John Dewey: //The School and Society// TS Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
 * Favorite Writers and Works **