Every child should have:

•  a flash drive
  
•  a continuous supply of wide-ruled 3-ring binder paper (please NOT spiral bound)
•  a continuous supply of number 2 pencils
•  a continuous supply of black or dark blue ball point pens
•  a continuous supply of red ball point pens

Students have to buy a vocabulary book for the year. The books will be in the classroom the first week of school, and we will collect the money then. In the past the books have cost $15 each.

I won't require it, but I will highly recommend that every child has a personal copy of the MLA Handbook that they can highlight and mark up. The high school English department uses MLA format, so this is a book that can be used for several years:

          MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition (Paperback)
          $19.60 at amazon.com

If you can afford to make a donation, I would love some supplies that we can all share:

           boys—a ream of white copy paper
           girls—a box of markers of any kind

I have a few rulers and scissors to share, but students are welcome to bring their own. They should be clearly marked.