January 15, 2008

January 15, 2008
Students received the disclosure document and took an open-text, open-neighbor quiz on it.
Two very clever and quick students led us in correcting it.

Students set up their Writers' Notebooks.*

Students received the "Collage of Creativity" Assignment. See the post here containing that assignment.

*Directions for the Writer’s Notebook:
You need an 8 1/2 x 11” notebook (One is provided for you.)
1. Write your name on the back and front of the notebook.
2. Leave the first two pages for a Table of Contents.
Write Table of Contents at the top of those first two pages.
(Use only the front of each page.) (Don’t number these pages.)
3. Start numbering with the third page -- #1.
Number the pages in the upper right hand corner.
Number and write on one side only, though you may
tape handouts on the back of a page.
4. Label the next page (page #1) My Proofreading List.
(Record this on your Table of Contents)
5. Label the next four pages (#2-#5) as Writing Territories.
(Record this on your Table of Contents)
6. Label the two pages after that (#6- #7) Wonderful Words.
(Record this on your Table of Contents)
7. Label the two pages after that (#8 - #9) Quotable Quotes
(Record this on your Table of Contents)
8. Label the three pages after that (#10, #11. #12) Prewriting Practice.
(Record this on your Table of Contents)
9. Make a large title on page #13, Lessons and Drafts and Other Stuff
(Record this on your Table of Contents)