1. Welcome, Parents, to… O ur L earning C ommunity FR English, Fall 2015

2. Family…

3. Passion & Learning: From CLC to…

4. Passion & Learning: From CLC to…

5. Bill Walkner’s Contact Info. E-mail: wwalkner@d155.org Free Periods in ENG/Math Office: o before school (by appt.) o 4 th, 5 th, 8 th Hrs. o after school (by appt.)

6. Our FR English Course Goal: Each of us will become a more  Skilled,  Effective, and  Confident Reader, Thinker, Writer, Speaker, Listener, and Researcher.

7. “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -- Marcel Proust

8. “To learn is not merely to accumulate data; it is to rebuild one’s world.” Robert Grudin The Grace of Great Things (1990)

9. A Guiding Concept: Growth / Learning Time

10. A Framing Quote: “The point of writing is to create information, not simply to pass it along…It is the slow, organically growing process of thought involved in writing that lets ideas emerge in the first place.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

11. A Framing Quote: “Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade…It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head – even if in the end you conclude that someone else’s head is not a place you’d really like to be.” – Malcolm Gladwell, from the “Preface” to What the Dog Saw, 2009

12. Seek Depth, Not the Surface-Level; Move Slowly, Not Fast vs.

13. Your Vision; Your Voice O. T. I. Y. O. V.

14. Look through Fresh Eyes. “Make each day a new horizon... Take the opportunity to revolutionize your life.” – from a letter from Christopher McCandless to Ronald Franz in Into the Wild (1996) by Jon Krakauer, p. 57