Jeremy Melton
(Mr. Melton holding a book signed by his hero Winston Churchill. The book is worth $30,000, so Mr. Melton was unable to buy it. )
Campus: O.P. Norman Jr. High
Job Title: Assistant Principal
Instructor Of: English, formerly
Responsibilities: I like to think of all students and all subjects as my responsibility.
Teaching Experience: 8th Year.
Education: B.A. in English, minor in Philosophy. M. Ed. Educational Leadership UT Tyler. Beginning doctoral work in October.
Personal: I am married to Mrs. Melton. We have a daughter named Charli Jo born on July 18, 2011. We also have a dog and a cat. We live in Forney.
Birthday: September 14
Hobbies: Reading, writing, movies, cooking, photography.
Favorites
Song & Musicians: This summer was Roy Orbison (my daughter latched onto his voice for some reason) and still, Shelby Lynne. I listened to "Darkness on the Edge of town" quite a bit and avoided Justin Bieber. I like Glenn Gould doing Bach also.
Book: I hardly read fiction anymore, but........Moby Dick, All the Pretty Horses, 100 Years of Solitude, The Tender Bar, The Liar's Club, In Cold Blood, The World According to Garp, The Executioner's Song, Mystic River, The Brothers Karamazov, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anything by David McCullough, The Great Gatsby, Caro's LBJ Trilogy, Manchester's Churchill, Truman, Shakespeare's Tragedies. The Looming Tower. Grant's Memoirs. LINCOLN by Ronald C. White. "Rubicon" is the best book I've read in a long time, and I look forward to reading everything Tom Holland writes. I like listening to Dan Carlin's HARDCORE HISTORY podcast. However, I'm getting over my "great men and women" of history phase and enjoy reading things about people close to my current
experience and books about pioneers (as in westward expansion) and baseball history.
Movie: Rear Window, Lonesome Dove, Band of Brothers, Ken Burns' Civil War, No Country for Old Men. The best movie I saw at the theater this summer was "Super 8". The best movie I rented was "Up in the Air".
Final Meal: Beans and cornbread. Whole milk.
Quote: "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." Shakespeare (Hamlet)
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