About Me
My name is Eric Pellerin, and I am embarking on my 20th year as a teacher of English at Andover High School. I currently teach British Literature, Freshmen English, Advanced Placement Literature & Composition, and taught a Dramatic Literature course I wrote for the school 15 years ago. After school, I serve as an advisor for the AHS Community Service program and lead the AHS SLAM Poetry Club, which competes every year at Louder Than a Bomb, sponsored by Mass Leap.
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I had the privilege of being a host teacher for Jerly Mora from Costa Rica through and fell in love with this program. When offered the opportunity to sign on, I jumped at the chance. Given the current political climate in the world (especially in my home country), I feel it is imperative that people come together and share experiences to create a more global community. I also hope to learn more about teaching from another perspective and bring those ideas back to my community.
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My journey to see the world continues, as I have traveled to: England, Romania, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and around the United States.
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Bust of Victor Hugo from his home, now a museum, in Paris. Hugo's novel Les Miserables is inscribed with the following:
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So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
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