This morning, you are going to put your notebook together yourselves, using materials we have here in class today. Read through this whole post so you get a good idea of what needs to go in to your notebook. I am putting the materials out on the desk as you read this.
1) Cover Sheet - You will get a cover sheet, and put your name in the appropriate box. You may use color pencils or pens to write your name, but it should be clear. Put the cover sheet in outside plastic sleeve.
2) Dividers. - I have dividers and divider labels up out for you. You will need to label your own dividers and put them in your notebook. You will need dividers for: Warm-Ups, Classwork, Assignments, Handouts, and a last one that is blank (for your spare paper) in that order. If you like, I also have heavy construction paper that you can use as dividers, it adds some color.
3) Handout/Assignment Index - This will go in the front of the sections (by the way, your dividers are in FRONT of the section). You should make your first I am going to make this next part bold, italic and seperate so you are all sure to read it.
Your index's should ALWAYS read EXACTLY like it is written on the class sheet on the wall. Verbatim!
Now that we have that out of the way....
4) Put your work in the folder - put your warm up from yesterday as the first in the warm up section. Update BOTH your assignment index, and your handout index (see bold note above), and put those items behind their respective index's...
Once you have completed setting up your notebook, you can continue working on your short story we started in class yesterday.
