I like the idea of splitting the notebooks into halves and turning them upside down for that. I already do collect one period per day. I guess I am just picky about wanting to respond to as much as I can in the notebook. I still msy go with three, and the writer's notebook will be non-graded. i can peruse it during conferences, but not actually grade it.
Thank you all so much. You'd think after 16 years in elementary I would have had this all figured out, but I am constantly looking for ways to make my work less and teach them more. I may never find all the answers. Shoot, I can't even find all the questions...lol Kim On 2/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use 2 marble books- one is a Writer's Notebook and the other a Lit. Log > and both follow the Interactive Notebook model. > > In the front of the Writer's Notebook are different lists and things to > help them come up with their own ideas for writing such as a timeline of > their life, a heart map, lists of possible writing topics, an "Itches to > Scratch" list, favorite poems, scrumptious word list....The model goes on > the left side and their practice/tryout goes on the right. I then have the > kids turn their books upside down and backwards and have them free write in > the back. Pieces are dated, but may continue on over days. > > In the Lit. Log, we start with Table of Contents. Again, anything I give > them is glued on the left, a practice of whatever it is goes on the > right. This way they have a model and their own version of anything we > do. This really cuts down on the "I didn't remember what to do" stuff. In > the back, upside down and from the back, is homework which is usually > literary response to Independent Reading. > > These two books are our textbooks and have most of their work for the > year. I check the Writer's notebooks every 2-3 weeks and do one class per > night. I do not read everything, but have them select several, then count > up the rest. In the Lit. Log, I check the homework daily for completeness > and spotcheck other stuff once or twice a term. > > We keep both books in a large ziplock bag along with their Independent > reading books. The bags go home nightly and are expected in class each > day. If either book is lost, it must be replaced immediatly and the student > has to stay after school and reglue in all the missing sheets. This is a > real pain, but once it gets around the kids how long it takes, I don't seem > to have any more problems. > > I hope this helps! > > Karen Onyx > Carusi Middle School > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:32 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. 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