1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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
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

6. 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
Tip: Do NOT skip lines in your table of contents!

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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
8/21
Reading VOcabulary Glossary
Tip: Do NOT skip lines in your table of contents!

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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