Welcome (Again) to Mrs. Roth

Some may not know that our new government teacher, Shannon Roth, actually taught at EMHS before this year. Along with her heavy and stressful schedule of college homework, huge papers, a job as a pastoral assistant, as well as the everyday challenges of life, Mrs. Roth decided to increase her teaching experience by teaching part-time at EMHS. Last year she taught freshmen United States History for one period of the day. This may not sound like much, but coupled with her already hectic schedule, managing her time became very difficult. At one point she would start her day with morning classes at EMU, after which she would get something to eat, change clothes and then run to teach at EMHS. When she had finished teaching she would run back to her house, change clothes again and then finish her day with evening classes.

Mrs. Roth was born into a Mennonite family in Iowa, but moved while she was a young age to Virginia so that her father could teach at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. She was then raised in Harrisonburg and attended elementary and middle school in the area. She then went on to high school at EMHS and graduated to attend EMU. All throughout school she thought she would become a minister or work in some other church related job, like her dad, but she majored in teaching since EMU had no church leadership related major. When she graduated she decided that she would like to become a teacher after all and her first major experience with teaching was being a student teacher at Turner Ashby. She then taught part-time at EMHS to help out Jim Rush, who was about to retire. She was later given the opportunity to choose between teaching World History at Turner Ashby or Government at EMHS full-time. Even though the pay at Turner Ashby was better she decided to teach at EMHS, because she enjoyed Government more and liked the idea of teaching at a Christian school.

Her hobbies include watching sports, as she often did with her father when she was little, and reading casually or for educational purposes.  Her mother works at RMH and Mrs. Roth recently just got married.