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John Sieker has taught English at Hampshire High School since 2005. Throughout his time there, he has taught all levels of World, American, and British Literature as well as Film Criticism, Debate, and AP Literature and Composition. He was also fortunate to be a part of the HHS Girls Soccer coaching staff during their three year State Championship attempts from 2008-2013.
After attending Ball State University from 2001-2002, he changed his major from Film and Media Studies to Northern Illinois University's English and Education program after attending Dr. Amy Newman's Research and Criticism course after she indicated that this was the class that helped you know if you wanted to go through with the major. He did.
Graduating from NIU in 2005, he switched his landscaping job for teaching. From 2006-2010, he completed his MA in British and American Literature at NIU and subsequently enrolled in their Ph. D program where he is specializing in Transatlantic connections in 19th-century literature. His experiences in education have afforded him the opportunity to study some of the most meaningful, influential, and important works of literature in the Western world as well to benefit from the knowledge of exceptional teachers and attempt to impart some of this knowledge and positive experiences with reading, writing, thinking, and speaking to his own students.
After attending Ball State University from 2001-2002, he changed his major from Film and Media Studies to Northern Illinois University's English and Education program after attending Dr. Amy Newman's Research and Criticism course after she indicated that this was the class that helped you know if you wanted to go through with the major. He did.
Graduating from NIU in 2005, he switched his landscaping job for teaching. From 2006-2010, he completed his MA in British and American Literature at NIU and subsequently enrolled in their Ph. D program where he is specializing in Transatlantic connections in 19th-century literature. His experiences in education have afforded him the opportunity to study some of the most meaningful, influential, and important works of literature in the Western world as well to benefit from the knowledge of exceptional teachers and attempt to impart some of this knowledge and positive experiences with reading, writing, thinking, and speaking to his own students.
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When not teaching or studying, he is hanging out with Hoss.