1. Structure Section 1: notebook entries
Section 2: reading questions, vocabulary, and response writing
Section 3: brainstorming, drafting (process writing)

2. Topic: Name
Period
Date
Essential Question:
Questions
Notes
Summary:

3. Notebook Entries You must bring your English notebook daily to class.
Number and label each entry to get full credit.
Complete the required number of lines.
When absent, be sure to make up entries missed (posted on Web page one week in advance of due date).
Notebooks entries will be collected and graded after 8-10 assignments (3 points per entry).
If a notebook is too sloppy to grade, it will be returned without credit.

4. Notebook Entries
First Marking Period

5. 1: Ideal Teacher
(10 lines in seven minutes)
Describe your ideal teacher. In your opinion, what qualities does a good teacher possess? What turns you off to a teacher? Think of past teachers and describe a positive and a negative experience. Don’t name names!!!

6. 2: Kindness
(10 lines in seven minutes)
“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”
What does this precept mean to you?
Describe a time when you or someone you know had to choose between being right and being kind.
Think about interactions with parents, teachers, and friends.

7. Sample: 3: Sympathetic Character (10 lines in seven minutes)
Write a character sketch of a sympathetic
character who has a fear to overcome.
Sample:
Jimmy Winters is a 14-year-old boy who just moved from New York City to Last Run, a remote mountain town in Colorado where his parents plan to renovate an old ski resort. A city boy and not much of a nature lover, Jimmy is ill at ease in his new mountain home. He misses the sights and sounds of NYC and can’t stand the quiet. This move is his parents’ last ditch effort to save their marriage and Jimmy feels like a third wheel. What’s worse and incredibly ironic, Jimmy is afraid of heights and not at all excited about living at a ski resort. He does not plan to go anywhere near the lifts.

8. Sample: 4: Setting (10 lines in seven minutes)
Write a character sketch of a sympathetic
character who has a fear to overcome.
Sample:
Jimmy Winters is a 14-year-old boy who just moved from New York City to Last Run, a remote mountain town in Colorado where his parents plan to renovate an old ski resort. A city boy and not much of a nature lover, Jimmy is ill at ease in his new mountain home. He misses the sights and sounds of NYC and can’t stand the quiet. This move is his parents’ last ditch effort to save their marriage and Jimmy feels like a third wheel. What’s worse and incredibly ironic, Jimmy is afraid of heights and not at all excited about living at a ski resort. He does not plan to go anywhere near the lifts.

9. 5: Conflict (10 lines in seven minutes) Write about the conflict of your Reading Counts book. Are there internal conflicts, external conflicts, or both? Does the conflict interest you? Can you make a text to text connection or a personal connection with the conflict?

10. 6: THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR
(10 lines in seven minutes)
Options:
Describe a theft from the thief’s point of view.
Describe a punishment from the child’s point of view.
Describe the teacher from the disruptive student’s point of view.
Describe a man from his ex-wife’s point of view.
Describe a dog from a cat’s point of view.

11. it to get something out of
7: Use the Words
(10 lines in seven minutes)
Rows A,B, C: Use the following vocabulary words in an opinion about the standardized testing:
Vex, hypocritical, conceive, audacity, vehemently
Rows E,F,G: Use the following vocabulary words as you describe a thief getting away with the goods:
crevice, stifle, derision, stealthily, acute
it to get something out of

12. 8: Zombies (10 lines in seven minutes) Do you watch Zombies movies or shows? Why do you think they are so popular?

13. 9: Superstition (10 lines in 7 minutes) Are you superstitious
9: Superstition (10 lines in 7 minutes) Are you superstitious? Do you believe in good luck or bad luck? Do you believe that you can bring forth one or the other by your actions? Do you hesitate to walk under a ladder? Do you have a ritual or special item you wear when playing sports?

14. 10: Omens (10 lines in 7 minutes) What do you think of all of the natural disasters we are experiencing right now? We have hurricanes, wild fires, earthquakes hitting so many parts of the world. Do you attach any supernatural meaning to these events?

15. Outsider 11
(10 lines in 7 minutes)
What does it mean to be an “outsider”? When do you feel like one? Always? In certain situations or groups? Describe your outsider experience.

16. 12: Unfathomable (10 lines in 7 minutes) Describe things that are unfathomable to you. You might include forces in the natural world, academic concepts, or the behavior of others. Use the word unfathomable at least three times in the entry.

17. 13: Vocabulary:
Rows a and b: Describe a break-in that features the following words: bawl, roguishly, and quivering.
Rows c and d: Write an exchange between a parent and child that features the following words: incredulous, defensively, and unfathomable.
Rows e and f: Describe a thief at a flea market that features the following words: nonchalantly, savvy, and rarities.
bawl (8)
quivering (8)
unfathomable (10)
rarities (11)
savvy (17)
Roguishly (22)
Incredulous (24)
Nonchalantly (25)
Defensively (26)

18. 14: the meeting Apprehensive Defiance Contemptuously Ruefully Premonition The principal has asked to see you. You decide why and what occurs before, during, and after the meeting.

19. Chapter 7
15: Epiphany (10 lines in 7 minutes) What comes of Ponyboy’s interaction with Randy?

20. Chapter 8
16: Cherry:
(10 lines in 7 minutes)
What do you think about Ponyboy’s conversation with Cherry on page 129? What does this say about her as a character? What conflict does Ponyboy struggle with as he is speaking with her?

21. 17: Stay Gold
(10 lines in 7 minutes)
What does Johnny mean when he tells Pony boy, “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold…” (9.148) Explain this in 5-7 lines.

22. 18: the Evolution of Ponyboy
10 lines in 7 minutes
How has Ponyboy changed throughout the novel? What has he gained? What has he lost?

23. 19: Ten Years Later
What happened to characters ten years later? Describe what you imagine the life of the following characters to be: Ponyboy, Darry, Soda, Randy, Cherry.