Input from the Blog-Tardy

I apologize for being late in contributing to this year's ELA blog - I had forgotten how to get to the blog website. Anyhow, I agree with everyone's ideas on holding students accountable for the summer reading assignments, and designing a make-up assignment for those who failed to do it. With tremendous fear in their eyes, many of my freshmen have informed me that they never received the summer reading list and assignment in the mail. I handed more lists out on Friday and told them to get started or wait for a make-up assignment that would earn them some credit. I am not sure how long I should give the students to do the report if they didn't get the assignments in the mail. Also, Ms. Goodrich, an Earth Science teacher in room 96, has asked me several times about reordering the USA Today magazines that Joel had supervised last year. She apparently has information on how to reorder a subscription - is this something that we want to do? Does anyone have comments on how this was handled last year, or opinions on other potential subscriptions? Thank you!