Sheila Ingle Signing COURAGEOUS KATE and FEARLESS MARTHA November 19, 2011

Join us at Fiction Addiction where Sheila Ingle will be signing her books, COURAGEOUS KATE, A DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
2007 Winner of the DAR Historic Preservation Award and FEARLESS MARTHA, A DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The books, written at the fourth grade level, are $11.95 in paperback from Hub City Press.

Sheila and her husband will be in period dress and everyone who purchases one of her books will receive a bookmark appropriate to that book. If you cannot attend the event please contact Fiction Addiction and we will reserve a signed copy for you.

These heroines, like Kate Moore Barry and Martha Bratton, were ordinary women who did extraordinary things during the American Revolution. Kate has been called the “female Paul Revere” for sending the local militia to fight with General Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens. Martha refused to tell Captain Christian Huck the whereabouts of her husband, and this British officer and his men were subsequently defeated at the Battle of Huck’s Defeat. While defending their homes and families, both exemplified courage and patriotism on a daily basis. Their stories are significant and worth remembering.

Sheila Ingle received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with minors in psychology and religion from Converse College in 1971. She also earned professional teacher certification in English and psychology. In 1973 she earned a Master of Arts in Teaching in humanities from Converse College.

For over thirty years Sheila was a teacher. Her teaching experience shows a variety of interests and knowledge. She taught secondary English, writing, and drama classes in Spartanburg county schools. She also taught four and five-year-olds in a private preschool for four years. For over twenty years she was an adjunct instructor at University of South Carolina Upstate where she has taught freshmen composition and literature, language arts for the elementary teacher, reading for the secondary teacher, and world literature. Children’s literature was her favorite course. Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities recognized her teaching skills. She is a member of the National Council of the Teachers of English, Children’s Literature Assembly, Emrys Foundation, South Carolina Council of Teachers of English, and South Carolina Council of Social Studies. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented Sheila with the Historic Preservation Award for “preserving the history of a South Carolina Heroine, Kate Barry, with her children’s book for all ages.”

In August, 2008, Hub City published a CD study guide for teachers based on Courageous Kate. Besides a PowerPoint presentation, it includes a plethora of both individual and group learning experiences for a unit on the Revolutionary War in the South.

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