Warm-Up Begin to number your composition book in the upper right corner like this: (Be sure to number every single page carefully.) 2 3

When you finish numbering: Write your name on your composition book like the pictures below.

Set up your Table of Contents like this: Use the already printed red lines and a ruler to help you divide your Table of Contents. You will write: “date” in the left column “Table of Contents” in the middle column “page #” in the right column Stop at page 10

Every time you put a new activity in your notebook, you will need to put it in your table of contents as well. Throughout the year, your Table of Contents will start to look like this: 1 Table of Contents Date Page 8/21 1-10 Write this. this, And this.

What we’ve read this year Next Step: Your Reading Selections It is important to keep up with all short stories, novels, articles, poems and plays we read in class. Everytime we read, you will document the selection and the reason we read it. The next section you will create in your interactive notebook will be your “What we’ve read this year”section. You will dedicate 2 pages to this section. Pages 11-12. Title the pages “What we’ve read this year:” Add Masque of Red Death: 11 What we’ve read this year Date 8/21 Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe Tone Title Author Why

1 Don’t forget to go back and add it to your table of contents! Date 8/21 Don’t forget to go back and add it to your table of contents! Page # 1-10 8/21 What We’ve Read this Year 11 - 12 Tip: Do NOT skip lines in your table of contents!

Title the last 5 pages (10, including front/back) “R. V. G Title the last 5 pages (10, including front/back) “R.V.G.” (reading vocabulary glossary) 90 RVG Masque of the Red Death Write Masque of the Red Death as your first subtitle.

write the following terms under the subtitle “masque of the red death pestilence (n) - an epidemic of deadly proportion; widespread disease eccentric (ADJ) - odd; unusual habiliments (N) - clothing for a special occasion phantasm (N) - illusion; a product of the imagination gaunt (adj) - thin; boney

1 Don’t forget to go back and add it to your table of contents! Date 8/21 Don’t forget to go back and add it to your table of contents! Page # 1-10 8/21 What We’ve Read this Year 11 - 12 8/21 Reading VOcabulary Glossary 190 - 200 Tip: Do NOT skip lines in your table of contents!

You will use your notebooks/journals almost everyday You will use your notebooks/journals almost everyday. You will be required to keep up will all activities in your notebook, even if you are absent. We will use our notebooks for: Warm-ups Notes Writing samples Vocabulary Creativity Organization Accountability Notebooks never should leave the classroom. They will live in your class bin. They will be checked at some point for a major grade.

What is an interactive notebook? The purpose of the interactive notebook is to enable students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers. Interactive notebooks are used for class notes as well as for other activities where the student will be asked to express his/her own ideas and process the information presented in class.

1st Journal Entry Reflect on your first week of school. What did you like? What are you nervous about? Is there anything in particular you are excited about this school year? If you would change something, what would it be? And how would you change it? Write about anything you like. NOte: make sure you to go back and add the journal entry to your table of contents