Mr. Yates
My blogs
| Occupation | Teacher |
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| Location | Foyers, Invernessshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | •Graduate of SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY (USA)- 1989 BA Lit •Graduate of Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ (USA)- 1993 MAT English |
| Interests | Bagpipes, Trad music, art, silversmithing, printmaking, sculpture, literature. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Local Hero, Gregory's Girl, The Shawshank Redemption, The Untouchables, Born Free, The Quiet Man, Lawrence of Arabia, Dances With Wolves, Ferris Bueller's Day off, The Breakfast Club, Frequency, Inception, Rear Window, Psycho, Robin Hood (both Errol Flynn and Russell Crowe versions), Gladiator, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, La Retour De Martin Guerre, Le Chat et La Souris, Das Leben der Anderen, Die Fälscher, Lola Rennt,Amistad |
| Favorite music | Trad Scottish, Trad Irish, Classical, Medieval, Gregorian Chant, Renaissance, Rock, Jazz, Opera, Barrelhouse, Blues |
| Favorite books | The Book of Lindisfarne, To Kill A Mockingbird, A School In South Uist, FAVORITE AUTHORS: Ian Rankin, Henning Mankell, Arnaldur Indri∂ason, Iain Banks, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain, James Joyce, POETS: U.H. Yates, W.B. Yeats, Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig, Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wm Shakespeare, Wm Dunbar. |