Hi Kimberlee, I teach 7th and 6th graders. I have hanging files in my room that hang in plastic crates from Office Depot. Each student gets a hanging file, proper i.d. tag, spiral notebook w. perf edges, and folder for papers. They keep all of their key papers including book reports. I have them do their bell work on a separate 2 week paper which is easier to grade. Then I have them use the journal for notetaking, writing prompts, responses, etc. I grade it at the beginning of the quarter and at the end. I try to do it in class when they have them out during a 50 minute vocab/spelling test that they take every two weeks. They refile it.
It is cumbersome having these crates for 150 students on tables in my room but it is working for me. They are neat and they cannot say they can't find them. They are graded on their organization I tell them. Journals are to stay in the room at all times. I do not have them take them out of the room. We took them to the computer lab and to the library for a book talk with the librarian. I brought the crates (2 per class) along so they refiled right there. Otherwise I have a huge pile of journals. I want to hear more about your workshops. We do reading 2-3 days, vocabulary one full day, and writing not on a set schedule. Please share how you work your reading and writing into your days. Thanks. Lucinda Tucson, Az. ----- Original Message ----- From: "kimberlee hannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:32 AM Subject: [LIT] Management Details > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.2/692 - Release Date: 2/18/2007 > > _______________________________________________ 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
