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    Time Capsule: My Teenage Self
    Time Capsule: My Teenage Self
    Time Capsule: My Teenage Self
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    Time Capsule: My Teenage Self

    By Tonya McQuade

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    "Time Capsule: My Teenage Self" provides a captivating look into the teenage mind, with thoughts on life, love, family, school, friends, identity, decision making, and more - all in poetic form! These are poems the author wrote while in junior high and high school back in the 1980's - at the time frequently sharing them with friends who could relate to the same questions, concerns, joys, successes, and struggles the poems addressed. Since then, she has shared many of them with her high school English students during their poetry studies. And guess what? They still feel the same way! These poems are timeless and universal - and they promise hours of enjoyment and lots of moments for reminiscing and relating!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTonya McQuade
    Release dateMay 2, 2015
    ISBN9781311697486
    Time Capsule: My Teenage Self
    Author

    Tonya McQuade

    When not writing poetry, reading a great novel, or enjoying time with her family, Tonya McQuade is an English Teacher at Los Gatos High School, where she has been teaching since 1992. For the past two years, she has helped her English 9 Honors classes produce a class poetry anthology ebook, in partnership with ebook publisher Smashwords and the Los Gatos Library. The first anthology by the LGHS English 9H Class of 2017, Windows to the Teenage Soul, hit number one on the Apple Ibooks list of Poetry Ebooks on the day of the book’s launch after a two-week pre-sale period. The second anthology, A Cup of Poetea, is soon to be released.Tonya has been writing poetry since elementary school, and while a student at Antioch High School, many of her poems were published in Antioch’s Daily Ledger. She also won Grand Prize in the Young Author’s Project competition her senior year and was able to have thirty copies of her book entry published and placed in local school libraries. She was very excited when her brother told her he saw someone check one out! As can be seen in the poems in this collection – most of which were written during those high school years – friends, family, schoolwork, eating, exercise, and her various “loves” all played a big role during that formative time in her life.During her college years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Tonya continued to write poetry and songs, but she primarily turned her attention to journalism. While pursuing a double major in English and Communication Studies, she wrote for UCSB’s Daily Nexus and served as Assistant Campus Editor, Features Editor, and News Editor over a three-year period before deciding to turn her focus to teaching. She stayed at UCSB for Graduate School, earning her Single Subject Teaching Credential in English and a Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, then later returned to school for her Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership through San Jose State University.After one year of teaching in Santa Barbara and two years in Osaka, Japan, she settled into San Jose, California, and began teaching at Los Gatos High School, where she has enjoyed being able to share her love of all forms of literature with her students – but poetry is definitely her favorite! She has shared some of these poems with her students through the years – and she’s even sung one of them to her classes while strumming along on her guitar! -- but she is excited about sharing them with a larger audience.Other titles by Tonya McQuade include:America at the Millennium: The Best Poems and Poets of the 20th Century, compiled by Poetry.com (Contributor - 2000)Windows to the Teenage Soul, by LGHS English 9H Class of 2017 (Publisher - 2014)Three: An Anthology of Flash Nonfiction, edited by Steve “Spike” Wong, Jan McCutcheon, and Kelly A. Harrison (Contributor - 2014)A Cup of Poetea, by LGHS English 9H Class of 2018 (Publisher - 2015)

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      Time Capsule - Tonya McQuade

      Sweet Sixteen

      The Performance

      My Fingernails

      Fitness Freak

      My Diet

      My Sweet Tooth

      Eating Obsession

      Growing Older

      Flowering Facts

      Types of People

      Time

      Confusion

      Sometimes

      The Puppet

      Recognition

      Elegy

      The Rose

      Thoughts on School & Our World

      Schooltime Wisdom

      Ode to an Equation

      Time to Study!

      Dead Week Stress

      Changes

      Choices

      Just Wondering What to Do

      School Days

      Dreamland

      Dreams

      The Telephone

      Alexander the Great

      Our World

      Footprints in the Sand

      Thoughts on Friends & Family

      Friends

      Always Friends, Forever

      What is a Friend?

      The Intruder

      Sibling Rivalry

      For my Parents at Graduation

      Happy Mother’s Day!

      To Dad

      Thoughts on Love

      First Love

      Put Your Trust in Me

      The Dance

      Breaking Up

      Dreamer

      This Thing Called Love

      The Mystery of Love

      Here I Am Again

      Through the Day

      The Decision

      The Gift of Love

      Together Again

      One More Try

      Distorted Images

      Broken Images

      Obsession

      Dream Come True

      You Are the One

      The Intrusion

      What Was It That I Saw in You?

      The End of Love

      The Best of Both Worlds

      Sailor Boy

      Goodbye

      Guitar Man

      Here I Am in Love

      Heart Full of Love

      About Tonya McQuade

      Other Titles by Tonya McQuade

      Connect with Tonya Graham McQuade

      Thoughts on Life & Growing Up

      Outer Shells

      A song came on the radio;

      The tune was quite off-beat.

      The words were thrown together

      In a way that wasn’t neat.

      A boy who heard the music

      Quickly turned the volume down;

      He didn’t listen for the message,

      He just commented with a frown:

      "It just ain’t got no rhythm,

      And it sure ain’t got no rhyme.

      If they call that thing a song,

      Well, it sure ain’t worth a dime."

      A woman walking down the street

      Caught a young man’s stare.

      He was not extremely handsome;

      Fancy clothes he did not wear.

      The woman only snickered

      And quickly made her way,

      Thinking to herself,

      I’d not give him the time of day.

      What neither of them realized

      Was the beauty was inside:

      The message of the music,

      The love a heart can’t hide.

      If they’d only taken time

      To look beneath the outer shell,

      They’d have seen the hidden beauty

      And the secrets left to tell.

      But we too often judge by looks,

      And we don’t give new things a try.

      Who knows what we have missed

      As well let it pass us by?

      The Sun Will Shine Again

      When happy times have ended,

      And life has got you down;

      When you find you’ve lost your smile,

      And you’re left to wear a frown;

      Remember, April showers

      Bring May flowers, so they say,

      And so it is in life

      As you live from day to day.

      When nothing’s going right,

      But everything is going wrong;

      When your life has come untuned,

      And the notes don’t fit the song;

      Remember, little flowers

      Never worry for they know

      If it never, never rained,

      They would never, never grow.

      If the sun were always shining,

      If there were no snow or rain,

      We would never see the beauty

      Of a frosted window pane.

      If life were nothing more

      Than happy days and sunny skies,

      We would never see the beauty

      Of a teardrop in our eyes.

      So when things aren’t running smoothly

      And you wish your life could end;

      When it seems your luck has blown away

      With a strong and stormy wind;

      Just be thankful for the bad times

      And the sky when it is gray,

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