Mission

The Bridgeport Public Schools’ English Department aims for all students to become passionate, life-long readers and writers by offering them the opportunity to read, listen to, view, speak, write, and present about works in many genres and about literature of their choice. The outcomes of English education are that students engage with literature for the knowledge and perspectives that will guide all their endeavors, communicate skillfully and creatively, succeed in negotiating life’s adversities through an understanding of the human spirit, and love a good story.

Philosophy:
Why We Read and Write

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. Not only because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

William Faulkner
Upon Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature

Meet Our English Department
Alice Daniels Director (203) 275-1368
John Brockenberry Curriculum Specialist (203) 275-2521
Beth Furnari Curriculum Specialist (203) 275-2595
Griselle Romero Clerical Specialist (203) 275-1369