I love watching and helping my students as they meet the challenges of growing up. The English program is designed to guide students to speak, listen, read, and write with increasing depth and sophistication. Students are encouraged to develop their own specific styles and interests in communication, particularly in writing. An unusually large and constant number of our students are innately talented writers, particularly in fiction and poetry. The English creative writing program helps students develop these talents by giving them the time to write, encouragement, lessons, peer conferences, and constructive criticism.
Students also develop their close reading skills in our literature program.
Each year of the English program is divided into units which focus on a particular skill, such as critical reading, while integrating other skills. Cook, lives off campus. Lives on property with her husband, Chris, and their daughter, Clara. B.A. French, minor Psychology, University of Vermont. Staff since 1991.