Upper School Grade Report

FALL MID-SEMESTER
OCTOBER 2013
Daniel Bashir
Advisor: Mr. Thommen
Grade level: Tenth Grade
Fall Mid-Semester
English II: The Other Side of the Story Ms. Andrea Decker A
Daniel, Congratulations on an excellent start to the year in English II. I always enjoy your thoughtful
contributions to class and I appreciate your willingness to pepper our conversations with the ambitious
reading youre doing for pleasure and for other classes. You especially shined in the
prescriptivist/descriptivist debate (even though you also had to contend with being filmed!). In addition
to being a prolific contributor, you are the consummate gentleman, always gracious and kind to your
classmates. As we move forward, I'd like to see you keep doing all the things you're doingyour
performance on reading quizzes and writing assignments suggests that you are deeply curious about and
consistently engaged with the material. I think you will enjoy The Namesake, which we are reading
next. I look forward to continuing to get to know you this year!

Modern World History Mr. Judson S. Garrett A
Dear Daniel,
I was repeatedly impressed with your depth of understanding during our discussions this quarter. It was
clear that as your contributions to our discussions increased, the level of conversation correspondingly
improved. Your sense of wonder about ideas is evident and I encourage you to continue to bring your
well-informed insights to class. Your essay on The Prince demonstrated serious thought and used
substantial evidence from the text in support of your thesis. It is clear from your quiz and test scores
that you are accomplishing the assigned readings with care; I look forward to your continued
engagement in the second marking period.

Upper School Grade Report
FALL MID-SEMESTER
OCTOBER 2013
Daniel Bashir
Advisor: Mr. Thommen
Grade level: Tenth Grade
Fall Mid-Semester
Debate Mr. Guthrie A
Daniel,
This class has shown how incredibly committed to your intellectual development you are. There are
many, many twentieth-century thinkers out there who have interesting and important things to say about
the world (and whose thought has relevance to debate in general and to this topic in particular), but out
of all of them you have chosen to specialize in Deleuze and Guattari, possibly the most challenging
branch of post-structuralist thought, an episteme not renowned for simplicity and clarity in any of its
forms. It may be, though, that as Foucault wrote "this century shall become known as Deleuzian" (or
something like that), and so studying D and G will offer you profound insights. It will certainly make
any other theorists that you study (except maybe Lacan) appear almost pellucid by comparison.
You've done great work throughout the quarter; you're a key contributor to the frequently
unstructured (rhizomatic?) but nevertheless intellectually vibrant discussions that form much of the
class. I look forward to being a witness to your continued intellectual development throughout the rest
of the semester.

Precalculus AB/BC Mr. Skolfield A
Daniel,
Congratulations on your work so far through the first quarter. Although your second test was perhaps
not as strong as you would like (86%), your first test was a solid 91% and your chapter 3 twiz was an
impressive 98%. You are always more than willing to challenge yourself not only in the classroom but
also with extra challenges on the side. Your curiosity is always appreciated, as is your willingness to
present even the most challenging problems on the board. Keep up your hard work on the homework
and assessments as we go into more new and challenging material in the second quarter.

Advanced Chemistry Mr. Wilkins A-
Daniel,
You have impressed me in every aspect of your work. You arrive to class every day fully prepared and
ready to work hard. You have developed good knowledge and applied it extremely well. Your 90%
score on the first test was an impressive start to the series of tests you will complete this year. I hope
you are able to repeat the same scores or higher on all future tests. As the topics become more diverse
and perhaps more challenging, I hope you will ask me questions and take the time to build your
knowledge with confidence. I wish you well with the second grading period and look forward to your
continued success in the coming weeks.

Upper School Grade Report
FALL MID-SEMESTER
OCTOBER 2013
Daniel Bashir
Advisor: Mr. Thommen
Grade level: Tenth Grade
Fall Mid-Semester
Mandarin IV Mr. Corliss A
Daniel, Super start to the year. Your commitment to the study of the language continues to impress.
Points of emphasis in moving forward: work on the quality of your written characters, please still a
bit spatially challenged; and anticipate and rehearse responses to prompts from each lesson's text to
help lessen that slight hesitancy. Greater attention to detail and additional practice will alleviate the
former, and more time listening to all things Chinese will aid the latter. Please see me for some
additional resources to reinforce this. Keep up the great work, Daniel.

IS Strings Ms. Fleming A
Daniel, you have been very consistent in your practice and preparing for your competition. I know you
are to have performance times set up before your competition in January. Although you have focused
greatly in this area, I am hoping that your scales and arpeggios are also being focused on as your daily
warmup. You know this is vital to intonation as well as rhythmic steadiness. I feel confident that you
and Annalise will be a good musical match for the Bach double. Setting at least a thirty minutes block
of time when you are here is a good plan. I would like to have you perform that for next semester during
a school recital. The Arts walk is a great place to feature the strings ensemble and I would like to see
you be a group participant as well as solo.
I do miss seeing you and spending time collaborating and hope that the next semester you could join a
small ensemble of sorts so that we can all work together. Keep up your great work and studies. I enjoy
having you as a part of the strings program.