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English and General Humanities Tutoring with an Environmental/Activist Slant for High School and First-Year College Students. |
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James LeCuyer: B.A. English, UCLA; M.A. English/Creative Writing, San Francisco State University; M.A. Education, University of California at Berkeley; M.A. Equivalency in Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Psychology of San Francisco, Lifetime California State Secondary Teaching Credential, 1966.
Contact: jimlecuyer@sbcglobal.net, or call 650 992 4550
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At home, during or after school lessons in writing and reading by poet, short story writer, mentor teacher, environmental peace activist, and California Credentialed educator James LeCuyer. Test preparation for Advanced Placement, SAT, ACT, TOEFL, International Baccalaureate, final exams, term papers, essays, as well as lessons in the history of the left and basic assistance for English Language Learners. Special preparation in essay writing for the new 2400 Point SAT Exam.
If your child is suffering from the boredom of scripted teaching and an increasingly conservative curriculum in school, I can help revive his or her excitement in life-long education by using the great literature of the creative left. Education, by nature, is joyful and compelling and filled with personal meaning. We shall prepare to remain human in an ever more corporate future. Over the past thirty years I have successfully taught hundreds of young people the joys of learning through writing and reading, and have prepared them for entrance into the finest universities.
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The secret of academic success depends greatly on a person's ability to write and think clearly. Lessons are based on works by Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Greg Palast, William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, Martin Luther King, Michael Moore, Arundhati Roy, George Orwell, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Jessica Mitford, Frantz Fanon, Pablo Neruda, John Muir, Helen Caldicott, Aldo Leopold, Sappho, Doctor Seuss, Socrates, Jonathan Kozol, William Shakespeare, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Kathleen Cleaver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Joyce Jenkins, Diane diPrima, Howard Zinn, Rachel Carson, Bertoldt Brecht and more.
Quality rates: first session free; group or long-term Socratic lesson fees flexible. I work at your home or in your child's school, one on one or with small groups up to five.
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"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there."
- William Carlos Williams. from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."
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References
Huey D. Johnson (co-founder, Trust for Public Lands)
Mark Linenthal (former director, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University)
Anatole Anton (former chair, philosophy department, San Francisco State University)
Joyce Jenkins (editor/publisher, Poetry Flash)
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