Materials

The following is a list of materials students will need in English Language Arts:

• Three-ring binder (one or one-and-a-half inch).
• Five to eight separators for the binder.
• Spiral notebook with a minimum of 200 pages.
• Pencil.
• Personal pencil sharpener.
• One pack of index cards.
• Regular-ruled paper (College-ruled sheets are often bigger, rendering neat organization problematic).
• One of the following:
  • box of tissues;
  • roll of paper towels;
  • dispenser of hand sanitizer.

Additionally, I expect all students to come to class with a writing instrument and something upon which to write. I do not lend pencils or provide paper to students who have misplaced items or forgotten them.

Writing Notebook

The 200-page spiral notebook is for our writing notebook. Students need to number the pages and create a table of contents at the front of the notebook:

If students are unable to find a 200-page notebook (they are, in fact, sometimes difficult to locate), two, 100-page notebooks will suffice.

Tabbed Divider Labels

The tabbed dividers should be labeled as follows

English I Honors

• Starters
• Grammar

English Studies/Strategies

• Starters