Welcome to school year 2009-2010! This year we will focus on fostering a culture that will enable students to be ready for the paths they choose to follow after graduation may it be college, technical school or the work force. In addition to the course objectives, the following skills will be reinforced to benefit students now and in their futures. They are: following directions written and spoken, personal responsibility and accountability skills. With these skills in place success is right around the corner. I look forward to meeting and conversing with all parents this year.

tutorials will be offered monday through thursday during lunch or after school. Appointments can be made the day before or during the day they would like to come . Students can also call me at home for immediate help with homework or questions about missed work.

Gifted Hands is a story of triumph over road blocks set in path either societal or internal. Great book and a quick read.

Night is a work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War.

Lily Owens, 14, is an emotionally abused white girl living with her cold, uncaring father on a peach farm in rural South Carolina. The memory of her mother, who was accidentally killed in Lily's presence when she was four, haunts her constantly. She has one of her mother's few possessions, a picture of a black Madonna with the words, Tiburon, South Carolina, written on the back. this leads her on a journey of self discovery and adventure.