ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME: Healigan

 

    Leslie Healey, Secondary English teacher 

    Newark Charter Junior/Senior High School (2015-present)

    Newark, Delaware, USA


    Presenter: NCTE 2013
    "Igniting Student Bloggers" panel with Gary L. Anderson, Tony Romano, Amy Rasmussen

    Recent Favorite Quote: 

    "The desire to write grows with writing."
                                     ~Erasmus

    About Me

    I am a high school teacher who loves teens for their sense of humor, their creativity and imagination, their well-deserved angst and their belief that the world belongs to them. I love my job.  I concentrate on my teaching, tech comes second--though there are some that say that I am obsessed. This blog is my therapy--I need to work through my methodology and content to stay focused and have fun.
    I have a B.S. in English with a minor in Art History. Master's Degree in English--concentration in Anglo Saxon English.  Certified to teach AP Capstone Seminar, AP Language & Composition, AP Literature & Composition.

     Interests

    Favorite Movies

    • Amelie Any film by Kurasawa: Ran
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    • Throne of Blood
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    • Seven Samurai
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    • Star Wars
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    • Ironman
    • The Dark Knight
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    • V for Vendetta
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    • Gentle Persuasion
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    • Pride and Prejudice 2006
    • James Bond
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    • Bend It Like Beckham
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    • Rebecca
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    • Exodus
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    • the Grifters
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    • all Coen Brothers
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    • especially Raising Arizona and Fargo
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    • Some Kind of Wonderful and anything John Hughes
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    • Fight Club
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    • Being John Malkovich
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    • Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
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    • Rear Window and all things Hitchcock
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    • Scorsese
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    • Tarantino
    • anything with Bruce Lee
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    • Moonstruck
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    • Pollock
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    • Merchant Ivory films
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    • Incident at Picnic Rock
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    • Gunfight at the OK Corral
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    • Tampopo
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    • Tora!Tora! Tora!
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    • The Departed
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    • the Host
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    • Hitchcock
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    • Sin City
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    • Watchmen
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    • etc etc

    Favorite Music

    • Philip Glass  REM
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    • Radiohead
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    • Vusi Mahlasela
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    • U2
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    • Indigo Girls
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    • Jack's Mannequin
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    • Flobots
    • Chopin
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    • Coldplay
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    • Philip Glass
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    • Grateful Dead
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    • all Mozart
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    • Rampal's recording of the 4 Seasons
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    • Dave Matthews
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    • Tuku music
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    • the Roots
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    • Rusted Root
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    • Gypsy Kings
    • Ibrahim Ferrer
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    • Ry Cooder
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    • Gene Krupa
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    • Paul Simon
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    • Woody Guthrie
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    • Bob Dylan
    • Nields
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    • Jaydiohead
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    • Stevie Wonder
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    • Bruce Springsteen.......
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    Favorite Books/Writers 

  • Jane Eyre
    •    Snow Crash  King Lear 
  • The Gabriel Hounds
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  • Hamlet
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  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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  • The Glass Menagerie
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  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
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  • Chang Rae Lee's A Gesture Life
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  • anything about King Arthur
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  • Things Fall Apart
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  • Rice without Rain
  • Beowulf
    •    Henry V 
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
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  • Mary Oliver
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  • The Golden Compass
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  • Prodigal Summer
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  • the Psalms
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  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
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  • Robert Frost
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  • Dune
  • Flannery O'Connor
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  • Tobias Wolff
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  • On the Road
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  • Much Ado about Nothing
    •   1984  
  • Catch 22
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  • Stephen King(no matter what other people say)
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  • etc
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  • etc
  • BLOGS: 

    • Healigan's Second HomeLeslie Loves Movies



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