About

This page is partly personal, partly educational. I, Jeanne Skotnicki, teach high school English in a suburb of Buffalo, New York and am using this site to maintain a blog because I have asked my students to do the same. We all post weekly, more or less. I like the idea of blogs as writing assignments because the format encourages personal expression and/or analytical reflection on a range of topics while simultaneously allowing for creativity. Perhaps most importantly, blogs are relevant beyond the classroom and naturally have an authentic audience. Despite its pedagogical intent or maybe in spite of it, this blog reflects who I am, since I am–to a degree–what I teach.