-+Parent+and+Guardian+Corner

= ** Parent and Guardian Corner ** =



====Welcome to the class wiki for 11th grade English! Please browse the site and see what the class is doing. I will update it weekly with assignments and the syllabus. ====

====I would like to start off by saying that I am extremely excited to be working with your children. Their personal and academic achievement and growth is truly important to me. Helping my students grow as critical thinkers, readers, and writers gets me up every morning. Because of them, I will never refer to my profession as "work." ====

====I look forward to getting to know all of you better. You are the experts on your children, so your knowledge is an invaluable resource. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. ====

= =

==== "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'" ====