Tuesday, September 8th

DUE today: 
 - signed syllabus, ipad pledge
Today's plan:
~ Class connections: What was the best part of your 3 day weekend??
~ Announcements
     - Personal Management grade
     - "Typical day's schedule" reminder

INC -- Welcome to Debate class!

Today's plan:
1. What to expect in this class
2. Introductions
3. WGOITP (huh?)

What to expect in Debate:
~ News
~ Controversial topics
~ Debate (of course!)
~ Discussion
-- You will need every day: 
planner, pencil pouch, folder or binder (for handouts, brainstorms)
















Welcome to Language Arts!
1. Take a seat and open to today's date in your planner

  Due tomorrow: LA supplies 
                         You will need:
- 3 ring binder, 3 dividers, paper, notebook (to keep in class), pencil pouch, IR* book, planner
    IR = Independent Reading - 1st check out next Monday

2. Table questions
Break
3. Syllabus
4. Poem

Spitwads

BY MICHAEL MCFEE

Little paper cuds we made

by ripping the corners or edges

from homework and class notes

then ruminating them into balls

we’d flick from our fingertips

or catapult with pencils

or (sometimes after lunch)

launch through striped straws

like deadly projectiles

toward the necks of enemies

and any other target where they’d

stick with the tiniest splat,

I hope you’re still there,

stuck to unreachable ceilings

like the beginnings of nests

by generations of wasps

too ignorant to finish them

or under desktops with blunt

stalactites of chewing gum,

little white words we learned

to shape and hold in our mouths

while waiting to let them fly,

our most tenacious utterance.