[LIT] Management Details

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In a message dated 2/20/07 4:33:10 PM, dkaduce at kcmsd.net writes:


> I also combine my Reader's/Writer's Notebooks into one interactive
> journal.  I would suggest that you NOT go to 3 or 4 smaller notebooks,
> as then you have 3 or 4 more artifacts to grade.  I can see your
> complaint about the 3-subject notebook being too big to lug around and
> grade; but I certainly wouldn't want to grade even 2 different notebooks
> with my 4 core Lang. Arts sections.  That would multiply my grading
> headache to 8 sets of notebooks instead of 4.  You would be compounding
> your headache into 12 or more sets of notebooks to slog through.  I just
> use a 70-page notebook.  That seemed to work fine until we needed to get
> new notebooks for the semester change and transfer essential papers from
> the old to the new notebook.  I think there is no one perfect way; just
> a matter of how much headache do you want to suffer.
> 

Pam writes:   I agree - I posted earlier that I use 4 composition books, but 
NOT at once.   I use one per 9 weeks.   I'd go stark raving mad if I had to 
try to keep the kids organized with 4 different notebooks!!!



Pam Tempest
Team Neon-6th Gr. ELA
Hudson Middle School
http://nlcommunities.com/communities/tempest

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as 
that every child should be given the wish to learn." John Lubbock





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