NAME:
C. E. Whitehead
SCHOOL:
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
CLASS:
English Language Arts
I hold a bachelor's degree in English, and a
master's degree in linguistics and teaching English as a second
language, and a specialist's degree in English education. I've studied
Spanish and French as well, and have published a very few poems (maybe five
or six only plus whatever sneaked into my undergrad. lit. magazine, where I
was poetry editor for a while actually, no fair, actually the selection
process was supposed to be anonymous but everyone knew which poems belonged
to whom no matter how many cover sheets you stripped off). Ny real love was
Spanish and French--but for various reasons, I majored in English (friends
on the literary magazine staff, plus if I majored in Romance languages I
would have had my thesis more strictly controlled and would not have been
able to do the creative project I did; finally I was unsure of myself in my
language classes--so I felt more comfortable taking my language classes a
little at a time till I got more comfortable in them).
As an undergraduate, I also worked part-time in the astronomy laboratory.
My mom was an astronomer and worked briefly at Lic Observatory. This all
helped to inspire the the "Trip to a Black Hole" and "Black Hole Trip
Links."
This web site was first begun when I was asked to put one here as part of
the requirements for my EME5051B class at the University of Central Florida.
The whole web site just grew from that.
The North Carolina Web Quest was completed under the supervision of Dr.
Pamela Carroll at Florida State University, as part of a class on Reader
Response.
This is a place to learn and write about environments on
earth and in space--Black Holes, the Arctic Tundra, the Great Plains, and
North Carolina's landscape. There are links and prompts for writing fiction
about these, as well as fact.
Besides the links to sites on earth and space, and to
imaginative writing activities and places on the web young people can
publish,
there is a partial (hopefully someday soon complete) transcription of the
story of the first known European trip all the way down the Mississippi River
(with English summaries), and there are links to sites on web ethics.