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=//**Welcome to Miss Clark's Class **//= =//**The 2009-2010 school year is going to be very exciting!**//=

Freshmen Seminar
===//This course is part of the Freshmen Academy at Triton High School. The course focuses on giving ninth grade students the study skills, organizational skills, and interpersonal skills necessary to be competitive after graduation.//===

Strategic Reading
===//This course is part of the Freshmen Academy at Triton High School. The course focuses on improving the literacy level of students as they enter high school. The goal is to equip students with the literacy levels needed to be successful in the high school curriculum.//=== 

Teacher Biography
===//Miss Clark has been teaching English for the past three years in Virginia. She is from a rural area in Southside Virginia and recently spent a year teaching in Virginia Beach. While she loves to teach English she also enjoys many other activities including spending time with her large and ever-growing family, reading everything from magazines to literary theory, and traveling just about anywhere. Miss Clark spent a semester in England during college and was able to travel extensively throughout the rest of Western Europe. She was also able to travel to South East Asia during her senior year in College. She attended The College of William and Mary in Virginia, but has also taken classes at several other colleges and universities since graduating in 2005. She began work on her masters degree in English Literature in 2008, and hopes to complete her masters degree over the next several years. Her theory of teaching can be spoken in short by quoting John Dewey when he said, "//The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men." (Dewey).===