1. Interactive Notebook Set-up
7th grade Language Arts
Mr. emenecker

2. Overview:
Your Interactive Notebook for Language Arts will be a place for you to record all your notes and to practice and apply the skills taught in class.
This notebook will become a portable portfolio of all your efforts during this school year.
It will be a tool to help you study and, ultimately, be a reflection of you as a student in my classroom.
You should value this notebook and take pride in its appearance and contents.

3. The Cover (front and back)
Task: Decorate your Interactive Notebook cover to reflect who you are as a reader and Language Arts student.
Directions-You cover must include ALL of the following bullet points:
Images of 3 -5 books that have left a lasting impression on you (These can be from early childhood to the present).
Favorite genre
Favorite author
Favorite book series OR favorite character(s) from novel(s)
Positive quote(s) about reading
Inspirational quote(s) for life
Optional:
One picture of yourself
*All images and words must be school appropriate.

4. Reading Timeline Tree Map/Summation Paragraphs:
Upon completion of your cover you will be crafting a reading timeline Tree Map and writing a summation paragraph on the first pages of your Interactive Notebook (INB).
I will model and explain this process and the final product.

5. FIVE POINT SCORING RUBRIC
5 Points - (a WOW product) 100%/25 points
· all of the requirements are evident and EXCEEDED
· the product is VERY neatly done and EXTREMELY well organized
· the product shows LOTS of creativity and is colorfully illustrated
· completed on time
4 Points - (What is EXPECTED) 90%/22.5 points

6. Rubric continued… 3 Points – (Almost What is EXPECTED) 80%/20 points
· the requirements are evident (maybe 1 or 2 are missing)
· the product is neatly done and organized
· the product shows some creativity and is illustrated
· completed on time
2 Points – (Sort of What is EXPECTED) 70%/17.5 points
· the requirements are evident (maybe 3 or 4 are missing)
· the product is done and sort of organized
· the product shows little creativity and is illustrated
1 Point – (Two or More parts are missing) 60%/15 points
· MANY of the requirements are NOT PRESENT
· the product is VERY POORLY done and POORLY organized
· the product shows little TO NO creativity and THE illustrations IS POORLYDONE
0 Points - (Does not meet Standards) 50%/12.5 points
· Cannot be scored or no product

7. Inside Cover
Reading Timeline Tree Map
Make sure your first and last
name is written clearly on this
inside cover.

8. Summation Paragraph(s)
Quality Work Expectations

9. Quality Work Expectations
Quality work looks like…
Neat, legible handwriting
Crisp paper (no rips, wrinkles, or fringes)
Complete and thoughtful responses with text evidence and support/elaboration
Proper citation of sources
Proper use of punctuation and grammar
Limited to no spelling errors
Proper formatting
Submission ready (printed, stapled, etc.)

10. Summation Paragraphs
Quality Work Expectations
Notebook Expectations:

11. Notebook Expectations:
My notebook should be in class at all times.
I am responsible for my notebook (location and
content).
3. It is my responsibility to collect or copy missing
pages when absent.
4. Notebooks may be collected randomly and will be
graded.
5. My handwriting will be neat and legible.
I understand that all writing is practice and will
follow the rules of grammar, mechanics, and
punctuation.
I will never tear pages out of my notebook.
I will not doodle or scribble in my notebook
(unless assigned to do so).

12. Back pages: REFERENCES and Reading Log
FIVE POINT RUBRIC
MLA FORMAT
Back Inside Cover

13. Next pages
MLA Format
In-Text Citation