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[kimberlee hannan]

I was thinking of having one for Reader's Strategies/Writer's Workshop
notes.  If they open the book at the separation in the middle, they can have
reading on one side and if they flip it over, writing from the back.   I
want one to be a Writer's Journal, one for Reading Responses and one for
Word Work.  I can feasibly keep two in the classroom for them, so they only
are responsible for two.

As for grading I have begun to take up half a class every day.  I have five
classes.  I have enough time during my prep to respond to them, if behave
and not get too social (lol).   I get through the notebooks in about two
weeks and then start over again.  The one that will be the biggest to me is
the response ones anyway.

I will change my mind about 80 times before school starts, but this is the
best plan I have now.
Kim

On 3/3/07, ReadersnRacers at aol.com <ReadersnRacers at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 2/20/07 4:33:10 PM, dkaduce at kcmsd.net writes:
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> > 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.
> >
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> 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!!!
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> Pam Tempest
> Team Neon-6th Gr. ELA
> Hudson Middle School
> http://nlcommunities.com/communities/tempest
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> "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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Kimberlee Hannan
Department Chair
Sequoia Middle School
Fresno, CA

kxhanna at fresno.k12.ca.us