Interactive Notebook Guidelines

Your Interactive Notebook will be your only notebook for Language Arts. This notebook will contain warm-ups, journals, class work, homework, and any other assignment completed in this class for the entire year.

The Interactive Notebook should be a 200-page spiral notebook.

Required materials: blue or black pen, pencils, colored pencils, markers, glue sticks.

Do not write in your notebook until the whole class numbers their pages together.

Every page will be numbered front and back. Do not skip pages.

We will create a Table of Contents together as a class.

Never tear any paper out of your notebook unless directed to do so by Mr. Odorizzi.

Never use your notebook for another class.

I will have Notebook Checks at least once per Quarter to ensure that all of your notes and assignments are completed and in order.

Worksheets must be glued or taped into your notebook in order to receive credit. Pages can be glued or taped in many different ways, allowing you to see both sides of a worksheet, to write under a worksheet, or to cover up a mistake.

If you make a mistake in your notebook ask Mr. Odorizzi for the best way to neatly fix it.

All vocabulary words should be highlighted or underlined.

You are responsible for all pages missed due to an absence. There should NEVER be a blank page.

Your notebook will be graded on neatness, organization, and accuracy of assignments.

Most of what we do in class will go in your notebook. By the end of the year, you will have a comprehensive review of the 8th grade curriculum that will help prepare you for the Reading EOG.

You must bring your notebook to class everyday!

Interactive Notebook Design

Outside Front Cover:

On the outside front cover you will decorate your Interactive Notebook with elements that represent Language Arts. You may draw, use magazines, or print images from the Internet to create your cover. Think of symbols, poems, quotes, authors, scenes from novels, short stories, etc. to get started. Your cover is whatever you want it to be, as long as it represent Language Arts.

Inside Front Cover:

(Write or print all of the following information very neatly)

Your first and last name

8th grade Language Arts

Class Period: ___

2017-2018

Mr. Odorizzi D-219

This is where I get to learn about who you are as a person and where you get to express yourself creatively. On the inside front cover you are going to create an Author’s Page. On this page you should include:

A picture of you (doesn’t have to be a photograph)

Personal Information: birth place, nickname, favorite color, music, hobbies, etc.

A symbol of who you are. For example, if you are a dancer, your symbol could be pointe shoes. A musician could use an instrument or music notes. Be creative!

Use your creativity to develop an author’s page you can be proud of. You can use crayons, markers, magazine cut-outs, and construction paper to create a cover that reflects your interests.