1. Your Writer’s Notebook
Writing Your Way to Success

2. “One day at a time –
     this is enough
Do not look back
     and grieve over the past,
     for it is gone;
And do not be troubled
     about the future,
     for it has not yet come.
Live in the present,
     and make it so beautiful
     that it will be worth remembering.”
                                              Ida Scott Taylor

3. On the inside front cover, write: Your Name Class Period

4. Glue WN Requirements on inside front cover

5. Glue WN Ideas on the inside back cover.

6. Glue Kinds of writing on the inside back page.

7. Make your name easy to see on the front cover.

8. Decorate your writer’s notebook!

9. For Each Entry Write:
The Date
A Brief Title
Your entry

10. Each Entry Should Be: About 1 page long or more
Written 3 per school week unless otherwise instructed.

11. Be Careful: If you write about someone hurting you, I have to tell.
If you write about hurting someone else, I have to tell.

12. Fold Your Page Over IF: You write something you’d rather I’d not read.
I’ll know if there’s writing there
(I have so much to read, I won’t mind skipping one BELIEVE ME!)
If you don’t want me to know, I don’t want to know.

13. GRADING DATE 1 point TITLE 1 point WRITING 3 points
Total: 5 points each

14. When Given Class Time to write
If you forgot your WN that day, write on a piece of paper and tape it into the WN later.