First Day of School

We survived the first day of school!  Actually, it was a great day in the English classroom.  All students read their course syllabus and have the assignment to explain it to their parents and get it signed.  This will be their first quiz grade, due back next Monday.  All students need to have their 100 page spiral notebook in class on Wednesday.  We will start putting tabs on them to make our resource journals. All students should start their home reading logs tonight.  This assignment is to read a minimum of 20 minutes (distraction-free!) each school night.  The first book report is September 29, so they should choose a book and get it read before that date.  Even when they finish their book, they still have the assignment to read each night.  This is a proven correlating factor in students who perform well on college entrance exams, so it is worth the effort.  

This week we will begin narrative writing in both ninth and tenth grades.  We will also try to get everyone matched up with a book they enjoy and get the resource notebooks made.  We are really getting the school and class procedures down this week and hope to be in full swing very shortly.  I enjoyed every class today!  It was good to see the familiar faces of the returning students and we have some delightful new students as well.  I even have some former fifth grade students, something I love!  If you have any questions, please email me.  Have those students get some rest, if they are anything like me, they will be tired tonight!