I put a calendar on the board. Per 1 Monday/Tuesday...Per 2 Wednesday/Thursday I found I can adjust it as necessary. I don't grade the stuff we did that day, as mostly it is unfinished. But I expect the other stuff to be done. Many would wait until the last minute to finish stuff if I warned them about collection time. I go through this process about every three weeks...I'd like to do it more next year. The list of activites/notes gets so long that all I do is check off whether something is in there or not. I'd rather have a separate response book that can be turned in more often purely for response...not grading per se. Then I can grade the "notes" less often.
I was thinking of investing some money, or some time begging, in two drawer file cabinets for each class. Some notebooks can be stored in the file cabinets when not in use. If I can find heavy duty ones, I can put my bookshelves in them. They are short and I have to crawl on my hands and knees to find books on the bottom shelf... -- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
