The binder should be 1/2 inch or bigger. Students will not be issued 
a textbook to take home. They will be given handouts. A hole-punch is 
not a bad idea to have, but if students ask me, I will gladly punch 
their papers for them.

They will have binder checks at the end of the marking period: 

I am looking for organization, completion of work and work to be 
inthe order it was handed out.


The following are some of what may be covered throughout the course 
of the year:
9th Grade Short Stories: (subject to change)


1. The Most Dangerous Game
2. The Bet
3. Rip Van Winkle
4. Sweat
5. The Interlopers
6. The Invalids Story
7. The Necklace
8. The Cask of Amontillado
9. The Minister's Black Veil
10.  The Scarlet Ibis
11   The Gift of the Magi
12.  Uncle Marcos
13. Before the End of Summer
14. The lady or the Tiger
15. The Perfect Storm
16. Where have you Gone, Charming Billy
17. Two Kinds
18. Angelas Ashes
19. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
20. The Split Cherry Tree
21. The Utterly Perfect Murder
22. A Christmas Memory
23. Thank You Ma'am
24. The Blue Hotel
25. The Shot
26. A Slander
27. August Heat
28. Dr. Heideggers Experiment
29. The Celebrated Frog of Calavaras County

NONFICTION to be Covered: (subject to change)

1. I Have a Dream
2. The Glass Half Empty
3. The Loch Ness Monster
4. Big Boys Don't Cry
5. What it Means to Be American
6. Thank God for the Atom Bomb
7. Unfinished Business
8. The First Appendectomy
9. The End of Separateness