June 7, 2019

Mrs. Zenas V.Nicolas

School Principal II
Libacao Nat’l Forestry Voc. HS
Pob. Libacao, Aklan Philippines

Dear Madam,
I want to apply for the position of Teacher I in your
school. My resume is enclose for your review. Given my
related experience and ample capabilities I would
appreciate your consideration for this job.
I completed my Bachelor in Secondary Education on March
29, 2018.
I have been teaching in Aklan State University –
Laboratory High School since June 2018. During this time,
I have had the opportunity to teach diverse youth
populations within my in-depth training and experiences
in the high school private school system. I believe my
enthusiasm for supporting all students, extensive
education and specialized experience would make me an
asset to this exciting State history education
initiative.
Having experienced the real classroom set up, I can
confidently say that I already have the skills to be an
effective teacher in a public school classroom set-up.
I believe that your school would give me the opportunity
to learn more things in my chosen field and that it would
hone my teaching skills further.
I give you thanks for giving me a chance to serve in your
reputed institution.

Yours Sincerely,
Leiza Mae D. Zorca
Applicant
 BOOK REVIEW: ‘Life After Life: A Novel’

Time is like a palimpsest," Ursula Todd tells her

former psychiatrist, comparing her life to a page that's
been scraped, but with traces of the old writing blending
with the new.
She ought to know.
In Kate Atkinson's compelling new novel, "Life After
Life," the baby girl who might have been Ursula Todd is
born dead on a snowy 1910 day in England, her umbilical
cord wrapped around her neck. But then she is born again,
and acquires her name. She drowns in the ocean as a little
girl, but is born again on that snowy day in 1910, only
to fall to death as a girl trying to rescue a doll her
older brother tossed out the window. More rebirths,
longer lives, more deaths.
"Life After Life" is the second literary novel I've
read this year that reflects gaming structures,
consciously or otherwise, in depicting the joys,
vicissitudes and choices of a life. With its second-
person narration, Mohsin Hamid's "How to Get Filthy Rich
in Rising Asia" reads like a text-based role-playing
game. In "Life After Life," Ursula keeps re-spawning
after each death, eventually gaining some ability to
return to life at a key checkpoint and make a different
choice.
As her sequential lives pile up, Ursula lives
uneasily with the powerful déjà vu that prompts her into
actions inexplicable to others: As a girl, she knocks the
family's Irish maid down the stairs, breaking her arm.
Only Ursula knows she's saving the maid from a trip that
will lead to death from influenza. "The past was a jumble
in her mind."
While different choice points lead to some
dramatically different outcomes, Ursula's personality is
fairly consistent. Loves her father, Hugh. It's
complicated with her mother, Sylvie. Adores her younger
brother, Teddy. Forms strong friendships with Sister
Pamela, childhood neighbor Millie.
With men, it's more than complicated. "She seemed
instead to be a magnet for unsavory types . . . and
worried that they could read something in her that she
couldn't read herself." In different incarnations, she's
raped and becomes pregnant, marries and is physically
abused. She's victimized but no eternal victim, and
doesn't make the same mistake twice.
Her lives through the interwar years and the Blitz
of London demonstrate how narrow women's roles and
options could be then, but smart, pretty and determined,
she makes her way. Once she imagines her headstone
reading, "Ursula Beresford Todd, stalwart to the last."
That would fit her, possibly in a way nobler than she
realizes.
In the notes for her novel (which contain spoilers),
Atkinson writes that it is about "not just the reality
of being English but also what we are in our own
imagination." Part of her motivation, she writes, is
bearing witness to life in England during World War II.
Ursula's experiences as an air raid warden in London go
on my favorite shelf with Connie Willis' "Blackout" for
their depictions of the everyday heroism of the English
during the bombing of London.
Some of Ursula's roads lead to Germany. Through
Ursula, Atkinson engages one of the great counterfactual
what-ifs: Could someone stop Hitler before he destroyed
Europe?
I tallied 17 lives for Ursula, but Atkinson handles
these transitions so deftly I might have miscounted. Why
does Ursula keep coming back? To kill Hitler? To save a
loved one? To grow in empathy for the difficulty of lives
lived anywhere? All of the above? Atkinson tantalizes but
does not state outright. Playfully, she also threads the
novel with grace notes about choices and time, such as
allowing Ursula to buy the yellow party dress in one life
that she denied herself in an earlier one
Leiza Mae Dela Cruz Zorca
2X2
Adress: Ogsip, Libacao, Aklan
Phone No.:+63 939 885 3992
E-mail:mSleizamae@gmail.com

[SUMMARY]
Be a productive teacher. Determine to give an effective and efficient way of teaching. A
skillful, knowledgeable and globally competent teacher.

[EDUCATION]
Aklan State University
Bachelor of Secondary Education
Banga, Western Visayas
Graduated March 2018
 Specialization in English
 Published paper in the Education Department’s Quarterly Report VII 2002
 Received teaching licensure to practice in the State

[EMPLOYMENT HISTORY]
Aklan Catholic College - Andagao Campus
English Teacher
Kalibo, Western Visayas
June 2018 – February 2019
 Supported a diverse range of students as a English teacher for almost 6 months
 Distinguished by the School with the “Teacher of the Year Award” in 2018 for
spearheading extracurricular literacy programs for at-risk teens in the community

[HOBBIES & INTERESTS]

My professional interests include reading current education journals and studies,
attending skill building workshops for educators, attending seminars and conferences on public
education and history studies. It is always my goal to provide my students with a rich
educational experience where they actively learn, as well as understand why they are learning
it.
[PROFESSIONAL SKILLS]
Teaching: Expert
Reading remediation: Expert
Reading instruction: Advanced
Blackboard: Advanced
MS Office: Advanced

[LANGUAGES]
English: Proficient
Spanish: Beginner
[REFERENCES]
Prof. Clarita R. Tambong Dr. Benedicta D. Repayo
Principal Dean of College of Teacher Ed
Aklan State University Main Campus Aklan State University Main Campus
Margarita St. Banga Aklan Pob. Banga Aklan
(946) 460-2573 (977) 027-9203
tambongclarita@gmail.om benedictarepayo@gmail.com