Interactive Student Notebook: Your Key to Success

1. Interactive Student Notebook • Your Key to Success • in English II • 2015-2016

2. I can't find my… notes, homework, old quizzes . . . I can't remember what we did in class yesterday. I'm sure it’s in . . . mom’s car . . . my book bag . . . my room . . . I was absent yesterday. Did I miss anything?

3. Get it together with your Interactive Student Notebook

4. What is an Interactive Notebook? • A personalized textbook • A working portfolio – all of your notes, essays, worksheets, class work, quizzes – in one convenient spot.

5. PURPOSE • Be a creative, independent and reflective thinker and writer throughout the year. • Express your own ideas and process and or apply the information and skills learned in this class.

6. LEFT PAGE Student Responses RIGHT PAGE Teacher Input

7. Right Side • The Right side belongs to Mrs. Karney • The Right side has all “testable” information • Date • Title and Unit pages • Vocabulary • Class, reading, and discussion notes • Worksheets • Table of Contents • Study Guides • Quizzes • Objectives • Other relevant information

8. Right Side • 1. Should be completely done. • 2. Title, date, and page number on every page • 3. All assignments should be in chronological order • 4. All right side assignments should be done only on right sides. Any missing part (date, title, incomplete, etc.) will cause points to be deduced.

9. Examples of Right Side Assignments • Articles • Notes, vocabulary terms • Graphic Organizers / Thinking Maps • In-class Assignments • Essays, writing assignments • Worksheets

10. Left Side • Left Side is to record your thinking, reflections, questions, thoughts, impressions, connections, and wonderings. • The Left side belongs to YOU! (It will be graded)

11. Ideas for Left Side • Use graphs, charts, Venn Diagrams, research from internet , draw pictures • Make connections between new and old learning • Questions • Poems or songs • Brainstorming • Sketches related to learning • Create mnemonic devices

12. Examples of Left Side Assignments

13. LEFT SIDE • All of these can be done for the left side of each right side page. Every individual right side page (even for many pages of the same assignment) must have an accompanying left side activity.

14. XAMPLE OF LEFT AND RIGHT PAGE

15. Maintaining the Interactive Notebook • No ripped out pages or torn corners • No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes • Date, title and number each page

16. YOU will need a new notebook for each semester!

17. GRADING OF INB • Each time the notebook is evaluated it will constitute a major grade. Notebook checks are unannounced and can occur at any random time during the school year.

18. Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook • THE ISN

19. #1 AUTHOR’S PAGE • Glued here: Notice and Note Bookmark! Do Not take up the entire side. Your name Period Decorate the page Inside cover

20. Quick Reference page 2 and 3 • Leave Blank

21. Table of Contents • Pages 4, 5, 6, 7 • This is the student’s organizing page. • It can be as detailed as the students want • It will help you evaluate their work and comprehension • Is an outline of their notebook and can be filled in as they go or completed at the end of the unit. It is easier to fill in as you go! • Make sure students leave enough room, especially for big units

22. Label each Page • Starting on Page 8: • Label all pages until completion!

23. First Activity Starting on Left Side pg 8 • Why did you pick these specific quotes ? • What made them stand out as weird? • What did you learn about the story through these specific quotes? Right Side pg 9 • Write at least 6 quotes that you starred while reading.