Mr. Cory Gasaway
Mr. Cory Gasaway English Instructor (708) 755-1122 ext 2190 Mr. Gasaway's Bloom Curriculum Words of Wisdom "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it may contradict everything you said today." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch) "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch) "Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied/ And vice sometime's by action dignified." - William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet (Friar) BASIC FACTS OF MR. GASAWAY: Birthplace: Brookfield, IL. and lived there for 18 years School: Lincoln Elementary, in Brookfield...Lyons Township High School, in Western Springs...and the Illinois State University, in Normal. Major: English Education Favorite hobbies: Enjoys all major professional sports (baseball, basketball, football, tennis and golf), creative & journal writing, and reading. Favorite era of history: Intrigued by both the 1800's & Civil War period, as well as American history from 40's - mid 70's Favorite music: I listen to all varieties of music!!! Favorite Books: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, Ulysses by James Joyce, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
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English/Journalism Teacher
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