Cory Smith
Campus: High School
Job Title: Teacher
Instructor Of: English I
English I Pre-AP
Education: Bachelor's Degree In English
Certified Areas: English (8-12)
U.I.L. Coach Of: Literary Criticism
& Number Sense
Personal:
Birthday: 7/13
Hobbies: Movies, Music, Playing Games (especially Monopoly), Watching Football and Baseball, and Eating.
Favorites: Movie = Happy Gilmore
TV = Simpsons, Lost, The Office, Scrubs, MXC, ESPN, Survivor, House, My Name Is Earl, and occassionally, The Golden Girls (sorry, guilty pleasure I guess)
Musical Group/Band = 1. Pearl Jam
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. George Strait
4. Queens of the Stone Age
5. Nine Inch Nails
6. The Darkness
7. Tool
8. Pink Floyd
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
10. Cold Play
Song = Yellow Ledbetter, Alive, Come Back, The Fixer, & Off He Goes
-All by Pearl Jam
Book = The Kite Runner,Chronicles of Narnia, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Lord of the Flies, Lord of the Rings, & Oh, The Place You'll Go
Sports Teams
Baseball = Texas Rangers (except when they don't make the playoffs; then the Yankees.
My theory is to cheer for a team that is actually worth watching in October!)
Football = San Francisco 49ers (The love I have for this team can only be derived from my
brother's hatred for the Cowboys and the joy he showed towards Joe Montana,
Jerry Rice, & Steve Young. One day they will be a good team again!)
Hockey = Dallas Stars (Some good Stars playoff hockey I would prefer to watch over any of the above sports. If you're not a fan of hockey, you need to be!)
Basketball = Dallas Mavericks (I don't like LeBron James or the Heat!)
Food = Sirloin Steak from Roadhouse & Fajitas with their garlic butter from Posado's
Quote = "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
-Thomas Carruthers
"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."
-Anonymous
"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing."
-Homer Simpson (This is, in no way, meant to be taken seriously.)
A bit more about me
I was born in Dallas, Texas in 1983. I have lived in the Combine/Crandall area since I was 2 years old. I attended Crandall schools and graduated from their high school in 2001. I attended Trinity Valley Community College in Terrell for a year and a half and then transferred into Sam Houston State University, where I realized I had a strong desire to be an educator. I originally was a Math major, but then something happened to the math part of my brain and I lost it. I then focused on English, which was always interesting and informative to me. I graduated, taught a little bit, and relocated to Kaufman High School. My second year at KHS I was asked to take on the daunting task of teaching AP English Language & Composition and English I Pre-AP. I enjoyed it thoroughly and hope to continue to have success and gain success each
and every year. I love it here and enjoy teaching my students every single day. Kaufman is a great school and I hope to do my part to make it even greater.
I also was the middle school spelling bee champion for Crandall when I was in 5th grade! I am the self-proclaimed Monopoly champion of the greater Dallas area, soon to be state of Texas champion.
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