The Writer's Notebook is a place to jot down thoughts, ideas, or to write for a long time about anything that's on your mind. If you need ideas, please refer to the Notebook Menu.

Notebook Menu

Lists of 12 for memories, information, persuasion, and books

Write a "what if" for an event in the book you are reading.  Change the plot.

"So you want to..." list

Generate twenty questions.

I am ______ .

Names

Lists: foods, places, people, peeves, "I remember..."

Write from:

 text

 a quote

a memory

 a photo

 an object

Mine your notebook

Write on news or current events

Create webs or personal graphs.

write about a person

write from someone else's lead

write from a different point of view

write from art

POETRY OPTIONS:

•  Found Poems
• Acrostics
• Free Verse
• similes
• metaphors
• Personification (try creating a character from a vocabulary word in your glossary)
  
  *When writing in your notebook remember, Volume, Variety, Conventions, and Thoughtfulness!*