With each major writing assignment I give, I send a rough draft home for a parent's review. I always tell the class that if a parent is unwilling, unavailable, or unable to review it, they can see me for an alternate assignment. Sometimes the parents just sign it and send it back, and sometimes the parents go completely in depth on their student's essays. All in all, teenagers don't often communicate with their parents about what is going in in class, so this assignment offers parents a little p