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-7th 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)
D’Auliere’s Greek Myths and Colum’s The Children’s Homer (5th-7th Grade)
Greek Myths Chart Part 1 Part 2
Children’s Homer Questions & Writing
Long Way Down and A Christmas Carol (6th-8th Grade)
Symbols and Symbolism in Long Way Down
Watership Down (7th-9th Grade)
Cowslip’s Warren: Hints and Clues
Stories, Storytelling, and Oral Traditions
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-11th Grade)
Memory, Trauma, and Return Essay
Antigone (9th-11th Grade)
Antigone Pre-Reading Assignment
Antigone Essay: Defending Creon
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
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