Liana M.

Alcantara
302 S. Cedar Street, Apt. 1 Urbana, Illinois 61801 (630) 803-4034 Career Objective A position teaching English in a high school setting Education English Major with Secondary Education minor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2008-present Oswego East High School, Oswego , IL 60543. Aug. 2004-May 2008 Required Experience Related to Career Objective Student Teaching placement, Champaign Central High School. Working with LaDonna Wilson (teaching Acting, Senior Literature, Newspaper, Public Speaking) and Scott Filkins (teaching Freshman Literature). Currently in progress. (wilsonla@champaignschools.org, scott.filkins@gmail.com) Field Experience 3, Danville High School, Danville IL (11th grade American Studies classroom). Responsibilities included lesson planning with another CI 403 student, teaching solo lessons to entire class, group work, grading speeches. (Abbie Carter, 30 hours, CarterA@danville.k12.il.us) Field Experience 2, Jefferson Middle School, Champaign IL (8th grade language arts classroom). Responsibilities included planning and team teaching with another CI 402 student, literature circle group work with students. (Mevanee Parmer, 30 hours, parmerme@champaignschools.org) Field Experience 1, Bismarck-Henning Junior High, Bismarck IL (7th grade language arts classroom). Responsibilities included planning and team teaching multiple lessons with another student in the program, small group work with the students. (Cindy Sellers-Evans, 30 hours, sellersc@bismarck.k12.il.us) Additional Experience Related to Career Objective Champaign Central High School, Champaign IL (Drama Club) Currently assisting with productions of Othello and Beauty and the Beast. (LaDonna Wilson, ongoing participation, wilsonla@champaginschools.org) Tutor, Urbana Middle School, Urbana, IL (SPLASH after school program). Worked with the group Broadway on Vine on the show Cinderella. (Bethany Schmitt, 32 hours, bschmitt@usd116.org) Other Experience Tutor, Oswego East High School, Oswego IL (OEHS Speech Team, after school academic team). Responsibilities included working with students in the events of Dramatic Duet Acting, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, and Original Comedy. (Rosalind White, 10 hours, mwhite0819@oswego308.org) 13014 Silverleaf Court Plainfield, Illinois 60585 (815) 230-2988

Honors Current overall GPA: 3.65 Dean's List, University of Illinois, Fall 2008, Fall 2009 Assistant Director of TheatreFest Showcase The Fantasticks, 2007-08 academic year Team Captain of Oswego East Speech Team, 2006-2008 Member of the Year, The What You Will Shakespeare Company, 2010-11 academic year Service in Community, University or College Organizations Mission trips to Juarez, Mexico to build four houses and one church with Casas Por Cristo, summers of 2005-2009 Treasurer of The What You Will Shakespeare Company, an RSO of The University of Illinois, 2009-11 academic years President of The What You Will Shakespeare Company, Fall 2011 Director of the following shows with The What You Will Shakespeare Company: The White Devil by John Webster (Spring 2009), Romeo and Juliet (Fall 2009), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Spring 2010), Twelfth Night (Fall 2010), Othello (Fall 2011) Acted in the following shows with The What You Will Shakespeare Company: The Two Gentlemen of Verona and As You Like It (Fall 2008), Two Noble Kinsmen and Macbeth (Spring 2009), Much Ado About Nothing (Fall 2009), Hamlet (Fall 2010), Tartuffe (Fall 2010), Julius Caesar and The Country Wife (Spring 2011), The Merchant of Venice (Spring 2012) Special Interests and Abilities Special interests in Theatre, public speaking, and creative writing Competent in conversational Spanish References LaDonna Wilson, current cooperating teacher in my Student Teaching experience, 610 W. University Ave., Champaign, IL, 61820, wilsonla@champaignschools.org Prof. Arlette Willis, instructor for CI 403/404 in Secondary Ed. Program, Education Office, 1310 S. Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820, aiwillis@illinois.edu Hilarie Welsh, instructor for CI 401/402 in Secondary Ed. Program, 382 Education Building, 1310 S. Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820, welsh2@illinois.edu