I have been teaching at Ross for 29 years, serving as the English Department Chair for 20 years. I have taught every class and level offered at Ross throughout my career and love that my students always make me laugh and smile no matter what! My hope is to share my expertise with students and provide a useful foundation to their learning.

I look forward to teaching sophomores and juniors at Ross and to help them embrace their educational opportunities and start exploring their passions and goals.

Mrs. Burroughs burroughsc@fremontschools.net

• How to define/approach various literary genres. 

• How to develop communication skills, both written and oral. 

• How to recognize subtle and complex differences in the way language is used, both within the texts we will read and within the culture at large. 

• How to engage in “close reading” so as to distinguish between literal and figurative meaning and in order to articulate a text’s central ideas and motifs. 

• How to apply the vocabulary of literary studies to texts that are explored in the course.

• Review working grammatical content