Susan O'Connor
Susan O'Connor has taught English and speech and drama in grades 7-12 for many years. She has presented her ideas to teachers on the local, state, and national levels. Her first book, Dance of Language, is a comprehensive language arts text for secondary students and is currently in use in classrooms in Houston, Texas. A master teacher at the Rice University Summer School for Middle and High School Students for fourteen years as well as a writer of curriculum for three school districts, Susan has a keen awareness of the varied needs of teachers and their students and continues to offer creative solutions through writing books and articles and presenting workshops and lectures. She has directed fiction writing workshops for middle school students for fourteen years, resulting in over a hundred regional Scholastic Gold and Silver Key awards and twenty national Scholastic awards, honoring students at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and currently in New York City's Carnegie Hall. Her second book, Shakespeare by Any Other Name, a collection of plays for teenagers based on five Shakespeare comedies, will come out in 2012, and she is now working on a grammar-for-writing text for 2013. Awards include The T. H. Rogers School Teacher of the Year, Houston Independent School District's Elizabeth Brand Teacher Excellence Award, and the first recipient of Harris County Department of Education's Susan O'Connor Teacher Excellence Award.
Latest Articles
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George Eliot's Silas Marner: Father-Daughter Alchemy
In George Eliot's nineteenth century novel Silas Marner, the spiritual alchemy of love turns an embittered man's life into gold.
Apr 15, 2012
- Susan O'Connor
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Jung's Shadow Theory in Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" reveals the limitations of the human heart through a synchronous connection to Jung's shadow theory.
Mar 13, 2012
- Susan O'Connor
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The Fantasticks: Plato's Allegory of the Cave
The long running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks mirrors our struggle from sweet innocence to painful but necessary experience.
Feb 12, 2012
- Susan O'Connor
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The Scarlet Letter: Archetypal Fates of Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne, heroine of The Scarlet Letter, parallels the three Fates of Greek mythology as she uses her needle and thread to weave her own destiny.
Jan 23, 2012
- Susan O'Connor
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Evolution of a Poem
Writing poetry is a process that evolves over time as the writer matches tools of imagery and figurative language to experience and philosophy of life.
Dec 30, 2011
- Susan O'Connor
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