Your Writer’s Notebook is a place to keep thoughts, feelings, memories, and just about anything that pops into your head. What you put in your notebook may become writing that you want to revise and share with others.

 For our class, please have a notebook in which the pages were not meant to be removed. We’ll be adding to it just about every day, so it needs to withstand constant use. (An old fashioned “comp book” works great. Just fix up the cover so it doesn’t look so dull.)

Read an excerpt called What Is A Writer’s Notebook Anyway? from Ralph Fletcher’s A Writer’s Notebook for

 

 more info. Or an essay by author Joan Didion on her Writer’s Notebook.

 

Click here for everything you would ever want to know about Writer’s Notebooks in the classroom.

 

 

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