Book of Eli

My name is Eli Hanel and I am in my fourth year as a secondary English educator and super excited to get started. I love to read in my free time, now I know what you are thinking, but I read a lot more than novels. I love to read manga and graphic novels, they transport me to another world and make it fun to read about new experiences. When it comes to writing, I used to be fascinated in trying to write a zombie apocalypse story, but was always too ambitious. Recently, I have been writing in my journal to keep my sanity and keep me focused on school. Most of the writing in my free time is on paper and when it comes to school or work, I prefer typing, plus it acts as a proofreading tool. I sometimes create Tik Tok's with my friends, it usually is some type of skit or sketch comedy but always just for fun. I knew back in middle school and early high school I wanted to be a teacher. For a while, I was going to be a math teacher, which was not my style. Then a love for reading and writ...

 Similar to the DeJaynes and Curmi-Hall article/research report, I too was apart of a double consciousness and multimodal counterstories like project when I was in high school. In my freshman year social studies course, we had to create a war film on the Vietnam war. I chose to make my film an anti-war film because still to this day, I do not understand why the U.S got involved, but I digress, I interviewed my grandfather before his passing in Spring of 2017 and based the film on his thoughts. He never saw action in Vietnam, but he was there as a radio analyst and saw the condition of the men first hand. I used the song "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival for it is an anti-war song making fun of politicians and more wealthy people who started the U.S's involvement and made the middle and lower class citizens fight their war. So, with that project, I connected more with my grandfather and most of my peers did not know about my anti-war statement. I posted it on...