Suzanne Linder began teaching Freshmen English at University of Ilinois High School in the 1997-1998 school year. Currently she teaches Sophomore English and Current Topics in Social Justice (formerly know as Social Advocacy). Along the way she has traveled with students to Mississippi, Greece, and Italy, converted a car to run on waste vegetable oil, produced–with students–a documentary on what it means to be labeled gifted and taught numerous lessons for all five grade levels (including three jr/sr special topic courses; African-American Literature, 20th Century War Novels and Utopia and Dystopia in Literature). In 2004, Ms. Linder was selected to participate in a Fulbright Hays Seminar to New Zealand and chronicled her experience at the blog Antipodean Adventures.
Ms. Linder grew up as the oldest of four children (and the only girl) in Urbana, IL and attended Leal elementary school, Urbana Junior High School and Urbana High School. She never applied to Uni, although she did once attend a dance in the North Attic. Linder received her BA in English and theater education from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI and her MA in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois. Ms. Linder is a regular author for the National Council of Teachers of English lesson plan website ReadWriteThink and recently had a chapter published in Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies.
Ms. Linder is married to Jay Schubert and together they parent Jay’s high-school aged children. In her spare time, Ms. Linder volunteers with Books to Prisoners, rides her mountain bike, sings with Amasong, cooks, knits and reads. You can see what she is currently reading at goodreads.
I thought you ought to be inform’d
Your title is quite badly form’d
Both of the words with which it ends
Have form in meter that offends
They’d fit, were they iambic feet,
But trochees ruin metric beat.