Nick D.
Private tutor in Arvada, CO
Education
UCLA - BA, English (2009) UC Regents Scholar, Honors Student Chaffey College- AA ,English (2007) Chaffey College- AA, History (2007) Chaffey College-AA, Art History (2007) Chaffey College-AA, Philosophy (2007) Chaffey College-AA, Political Science (2007) Chaffey College-AA, University Studies (2007) All associates degrees earned with honors.
Experience
I was a teaching assistant at Chaffey College. I TA'd Intro to Composition, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking and British Literature. I also TA'd Art History. The classes I TA'd were A Survey of Art History from the Beginning to the Modern, History of Photography, Contemporary Art History, Women in art. I have worked as a Middle and High School English/History Teacher. I taught every English class from 7th - 12th Grade (Including AP Literature and Composition), I also taught 7th and 9th grade World History. I have worked in Denver Public Schools as a Middle and High school tutor for Vista Academy. My responsibilities included tutoring all classes and all subjects. Beyond that I was the speech and debate coach for Vista, as well. At UCLA I taught visiting scholars and students English, as well as working in an Adult Literacy program through the Los Angeles Public Library System.
Subject Expertise
GEDIB Literature and Performance SLIB Literature and PerformanceIB Language A: Literature SLIB Language A: Literature HLIB Language A: Language and Literature SLIB Language A: Language and Literature HLHistoryGrammar and MechanicsIntroduction to FictionFiction WritingExpository WritingEuropean HistoryEthicsESL/ELLEnglishElementary MathPublic SpeakingWritingWorld LiteratureWorld HistoryWorld CivilizationUS HistorySocial StudiesShort NovelReadingElementary AlgebraPre-AlgebraPoetry WritingPhotographyPhilosophyPersuasive WritingLiteratureIntroduction to Poetry9th Grade ReadingACCUPLACER Reading ComprehensionACCUPLACER ESLACCUPLACER Elementary Algebra11th Grade Reading11th Grade Writing10th Grade Writing10th Grade Reading12th Grade ReadingACCUPLACER Sentence Skills8th Grade Writing8th Grade Reading8th Grade math7th Grade Writing7th Grade math7th Grade Reading12th Grade Writing9th Grade WritingACT EnglishACT ReadingAdvanced PlacementAlgebra 1American HistoryAmerican LiteratureAP Art HistoryAP English Language and CompositionAP English Literature and CompositionAP European HistoryAP U.S. Government & PoliticsAP World HistoryArt HistoryBritish LiteratureCollege Essays
Availability
Weekdays at any time, Weekends at any time
Can Meet
Up to 30 minutes away at my regular hourly rate
Hobbies
I am interested in film, music, philosophy, contemporary art and literature, as well as baseball, cats, cars, math, physics and computers. The films I am interested in are French New Wave, Hong Kong New Wave and American Independent cinema. I play guitar and my main musical interests are in modern classical music (e.g. Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg), Jazz (specifically Hard Bop), Rap and Hip Hop, Soul and Classic Rock. My main literary interests are Russian novels, Spanish language novels and Post-Modern American fiction (e.g. Vollmann, Wallace etc.). My big physics interest is Unified Field Theory. In math Godel is the person I most admire.
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