I’m always looking for new opportunities!

If you feel your school or organization could use my skills… if you think we’d be a good fit… if you have an opportunity that’s too good to pass up… feel free to contact me!

-Mark-

412-726-3914
markwalters1979@gmail.com

Current CV

Client Reviews, References, and Letters of Support

Yelp Reviews for WiseOwlPrep (2014-2022)

Letters of Support: 2022-

Minju Kim— Former Client (2023)

Tammy Trust— Former Client (2022)

Lauren Schwartz— Former Client (2022)

Nick Walker Hirsch— Business Partner and Co-Founder of WiseOwlPrep (2022)

Dr. Barbara Ann Bush— Former Colleague, Friend, and Graduate of UCSD Communication Dept. (2022)

Letters of Support: 2014

Dr. Marion Wilson— Supervisor, Muir College Writing Program (2014)

Gayle Aruta— Former Graduate Coordinator, UCSD Department of Communication (2014)

Sample Book Lists and Teaching Materials

Book lists (with approximate grade levels noted)

Sample Book List: Revolutionary War Unit (5th-7th Grade)

Sample Book List: Ancient Cultures (Greek & Roman Myths and Society— 5th-9th Grade)

Sample Book List: Race and Racial Justice in America (7th-9th Grade)

Sample Book List: Shakespeare for Beginners (8th-9th Grade)

Sample Book List: Odysseys (10th-12th Grade)

Sample Book List: War and Trauma (10th-12th Grade)

Western Classical Cultures:

D’Auliere’s Greek Myths;
Colum’s The Children’s Homer; Sutcliff’s Black Ships Before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus; Bendick’s Herodotus and the Road to History, Archimedes and the Door of Science, and GAlen and the Gateway to Medicine (5th-9th Grade)

Greek Myths Chart Part 1 Part 2

Children’s Homer Questions & Writing

Black Ships Study Guide

Wanderings Study Guide

Herodotus Study Guide

Long Way Down and A Christmas Carol (6th-8th Grade)

Allusions in Long Way Down

Symbols and Symbolism in Long Way Down

Watership Down (7th-9th Grade)

Cowslip’s Warren: Hints and Clues

Stories, Storytelling, and Oral Traditions

Epigraph Study

Shakespeare For Beginners (8th-9th Grade)

King of Shadows and Shakespeare’s London

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Rude Mechanical Jokes

Julius Caesar: Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Survival

The Odyssey (9th-12th Grade)

“Four Approaches” Essay

Memory, Trauma, and Return Essay

Antigone (9th-12th Grade)

Antigone Master Study Guide

Antigone Pre-Reading Assignment

Antigone Essay: Defending Creon

Structural Basics in Lyric Poetry (9th-12th Grade)

Structural Basics in Lyric Poetry Lesson

Poetry Analysis Running Planner (Draft)

Selected Personal Writing Samples and Publications

“Disability in Motion”— Chapter for Disabling Barriers (U Chicago Press)

When the Lights Go On Again— novel for middle grades, co-authored with Margaret Walters

“Subverted Sympathies”— Final paper for PhD course in Communication & Culture

“Pressed and Played”— A writing sample from ~2008; part of my application packet to UCSD Comm

Test Scores

PRAXIS (September, 2023): Math 200; Reading 200; Writing 192

PRAXIS ELA Content & Analysis (June, 2024): 190

CSET Math I (Number & Quantity, Algebra— October, 2023): Pass

CSET MAth II (Geometry & Statistics— January, 2024): Pass

CSET Social Sciences I (World History and Geography)— July, 2024): Pass

CSET Social Sciences II (US History & Geography— March, 2024): Pass

CSET Social Sciences III (Civics, Economics, CA History— July, 2024): Pass


ACT (June, 2016):

GRE (2007):

Verbal: 720 (98%); Quantitative: 790 (92%); Writing: 6 (96%)

Merged Transcripts:

University of Washington

Carnegie Mellon University

University of Pittsburgh

UC San Diego