Cory Smith
Campus: High School
Job Title: Teacher
Instructor Of: English IV AP
English I Pre-AP
Education: Bachelor's Degree In English
Certified Areas: English and PPR (Both 8-12)
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, and Come Back
-All by Pearl Jam
Book = Chronicles of Narnia, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Lord of the Flies, Lord of
the Rings, & Oh, The Place You'll Go
Food = Sirloin Steak from Roadhouse & Fajitas from Posados
Quote = "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing."
-Homer Simpson
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
-Thomas Carruthers
"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."
-Anonymous
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. 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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