Karina Negus Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

United States

Taught children's literature, focusing on oral traditions, genres, and the application of literary theory.

*Set up in-store events, including book signings, book fairs, field trips, and educator receptions*Create in-store calendar and send out press releases*Handle all donation requests from outside organizations*Work with outside organizations and schools to help promote literacy in the community*Handle large orders for schools, organizations, and corporations*Supervisory responsibilities, training new employees and helping to solve problems*Also served as children's department lead where I was responsible for setting up displays and promotions, organizing department, tracking inventory and sales, processing returns, ordering books for the department, and helping customers locate and/or order books

*Taught two levels of freshman composition—basic types of essay development and research papers*Taught MLA style (writing for the humanities) research papers and APA style (technical writing) research papers

Taught children's literature, focusing on oral traditions, genres, application of literary theory, and implementation in classroom setting.

* Chose, edited, and marked reviews for inclusion in Children's Literature Review* Wrote 2-6 page IDs of authors and/or illustrators, including biography, description of major works, critical reception and awards*Wrote 1 paragraph to 2 page biographies for Women in History*Researched and wrote 2,000-3,000 word biographies for Notable Black American Women, III

Taught children's literature, focusing on oral traditions, genres, application of literary theory, and implementation in classroom setting

*Taught literature based composition, focusing on literary criticism and applying that criticism to plays, novels and short stories*Taught basic freshman composition, focusing on patterns of development, basic essay form and research papers*Taught children's literature, focusing on oral traditions, genres, and the application of literary theory

*Taught developmental composition (with a computer lab), emphasizing paragraph development*Taught two levels of basic freshman composition--basic types of essay development and research papers*Taught pilot program where OCC offered a college level composition course to juniors and seniors at Oak Park High School

Ma, Children'S Literature

Ba, English

Minor in Early Childhood Development