1. VOCAB #1 “A Teacher Speaks”

2. ASPIRATION  Students should have many aspirations, including finishing middle school, graduating, and finding a way to start a food fight without getting caught.

3. INDELIBLE  Writing on a desk with pencil is one thing. Writing on a desk with indelible ink is an entirely different thing.

4. OBSCURE  The school operated under an obscure set of rules.

5. QUAINT  The one-room schoolhouse was too quaint for the hipster.

6. DIPLOMAT  The student council was made up of the most unusual set of diplomats- the class clown, the math geek, and the homecoming queen.

7. PREMIER  Mrs. Hying considers herself to be the premier 8 th grade English teacher on this floor.

8. NEUTRAL  When it comes to fights at recess, try to be like Switzerland… just don’t get involved.

9. SALUTATION  When a teacher offers up a salutation in the morning, it’s polite to return it.

10. FOREWORD  The worst part of any book is the foreword. Who cares what some unrelated odd-ball has to say about the story, just let me read!

11. CONFISCATE  The students cried when their phones were confiscated.