Hi all, I teach seventh grade and have about 120 kids. I also use journals with my kids, something like an interactive notebook. Everything is in one notebook. But I am not so sure I will put everything in one notebook again next year. We use the three subject notebooks with the plastic covers right now. They keep a table of contents and have the pages numbered. I have them tape in handouts and poems. I do most organizers in the notebooks, too. I still find that it is very confusing to them to find things when they need them. I have 49 minutes a day with each of them, so I can only do Writer's Workshop three days a week and Reader's Workshop two days a week, so they have to do their responses at home as well as a lot of their reading. They have to haul the notebooks back and forth. They are also really big for me to haul and grade.
I think next year I am going to have them get three or four hardback composition books. One for Reader's Workshop Notes and Responses, Writer's Conventions and Word Work, and Writing Notebook. They can leave them in crates in my room and take home only what they need for that evening. It still sound cumbersome, but I haven't worked out the details yet. How do you organize your kids' work? Do any of you teach in a middle school setting and use workshops to teach? If you, I would like to talk time management with you. I hate the way my weeks are laid out now. I have the week split into three days WW and two days RW. I would like to try something else next year, but unsure what. -- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, CA _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
