Welcome to the First Day of Eighth Grade!

Assign seats

Pass out color-coded folders

Narrative Poem (a poem that tells a story: "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Copy rules and hand them in

Be in your seat ready to work when the bell rings or receive a tardy.

Bring a blue or black pen, paper, a # 2 pencil with eraser, your agenda book, your English notebook and any other required texts every day.

Behave in a polite and appropriate manner.

Eat, drink, and chew elsewhere.

Use restroom before and after class.

Absolutely no updog in class.

Discuss and collect summer reading (extra credit) assignment. Students must submit the essay by Friday, September 8.

Do first vocabulary word chart for the words narrative, theme, and tradition.


Distribute and discuss curriculum letter (due Friday).