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Jennifer Epping

Jennifer Epping is a high school English and journalism teacher in Des Moines, Iowa. She has a passion for reading, writing, and making lame jokes to her students just to see them laugh or roll their eyes. She just concluded her ninth year teaching. Epping graduated from Iowa State University with a BS in journalism and mass communication (2010) and BA in English Education (2013). She attended New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute (2010), and spent some time in children’s book publishing in New York.

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    Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?

    Being a teenager means a lot of things, but starting to date and get into romantic relationships or friendships sticks out as a huge milestone. The thing most teens need is guidance to make a healthy choice when choosing with whom to be friends or...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine

    A bright part of every teacher’s day is getting to the class that your star student is in. You know the one. We see them reach for the sky every time...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces

    To be mentally healthy requires work, and many youth and their families turn to some kind of therapy, counseling, or inpatient program to aid in that...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet

    Mental health is just as important as our physical health, and many educators understand this. According to the National Institute of Mental Health,...

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    Real to Reel: Backwards Writing

    It’s not very often that TV shows or movies come before the book version, but it does happen sometimes! The art of writing is alive in visual media...

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    Real to Reel: Dystopian Societies

    Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ have taken over much of the television industry by taking popular and enticing books or comics and creating a TV series...

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    Real to Reel: Textual Evidence

    Code-switching is changing something about yourself to fit a certain situation or audience. The way you might talk to your friends versus talking to...

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    Real to Reel: Point of View

    In the majority of books, the narrator is human and alive, but in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the narrator is Death. Yes, Death with a capital D....

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    Real to Reel: Our Favorite Book-to-Screen Adaptations

    For book lovers, it’s nothing new to read a good book and seek out the movie rendition, but for students, many seek out movies or TV shows and then...

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    Pride Mini Lesson: History of the Pride Flag

    We all know the rainbow flag stands for the LGBTQIA+ community and it stands for pride, but did you know that each color has a meaning? Or that...

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