Since I first taught freshman composition as a graduate student at Columbia, I knew I wanted to teach. Since I received my PhD in 2008 from Columbia in Medieval English Literature and Feminist and Queer theory, I have taught 10th, 11th, and 12th grade English at Friends Seminary. By showing students how a single phrase, sentence, or even a word can open up the meaning of an entire text, I hope to give my students the tools not only to be good analytic readers but also to get pleasure and sustenance from what they read. I love demystifying analytic writing for students, especially younger high school students. By offering models for sentences, paragraphs, and even essays, I give students the tools to write clearly and expressively about complicated texts. Nothing is more pleasing to me than witnessing a student suddenly get how to take apart a passage that seemed terrifying and write clearly about the ambiguous, nuanced, contradictory elements of the world that good literature reflects,