[LIT] Management Details

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In a message dated 3/3/07 11:42:52 PM, rpmgrace at cox.net writes:


> Do the students keep the composition books with them or do you file them
> somehow in the room? 
> 

Nope, I don't have sufficient room to keep 125-130 notebooks.   The kids 
carry their notebooks back and forth.   In fact, that is one of the reasons I 
don't collect all notebooks at once.   I'm not sure where I'd put them to grade!!  
 I made that mistake early last year and by the day's mid-point, I started 
telling the kids that I knew   I said I'd collect the notebooks, but changed my 
mind and I'd let them know when I was ready to collect them-LOL.   If I did 
that I'd have to get rid of at least one of my classroom library bookshelves.  I 
actually proposed that towards the end of our 1st quarter (as some of the 
kids were getting lazy and kept "forgetting" their notebooks at home).   They 
used positive peer pressure to convince the lazy ones and called and reminded the 
truly forgetful kids.   End of problem.   They really enjoy the books that I 
spend entirely too much money on (although ordering through Scholastic 
magazines and putting all my points into books has been a boon).   

Someone, Kim maybe?, said that they collect 1/2 a class at a time.   How and 
when do you let the kids know you are collecting notebooks?   That sounds like 
something that might work for me.



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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