Interactive Student Interactive Student NotebookNotebook

Interactive Student Interactive Student NotebookNotebook

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What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized textbook• A working portfolio – all of your

notes, class work, quizzes – in one convenient spot.

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.

Date Title

RIGHT PAGERIGHT PAGE LEFT PAGELEFT PAGE

Student Responses

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Teacher Information

Right Side• The Right side belongs to Mrs. Bentheim• 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– Content and Language Objectives– Other relevant information

Right Side• 1. Should be completely done. • 2. Should clearly have both the title of the assignment

at the top and the date centered to the right of the title. The page should be numbered in the top right-hand corner.

• 3. All assignments should be in chronological order by the times they were assigned.

• 4. All right side assignments should be done only on right sides unless other instructed by Mrs. Bentheim.

• 5. Each fully completed and correct right side assignment earns a grade.

Any missing part (date, title, incomplete, etc.) will cause points to be deduced.

Examples of Right Side Assignments

• Articles• Notes• Graphic Organizers / Thinking

Maps• In-class Assignments• Recording Sheets

Left Side• Left Side is to record your thinking,

reflections, questions, thoughts, impressions, connections, and wonderings.

• The Left side belongs to YOU!– Apply skills learned in class– Use graphs, charts, Venn Diagrams, research from

internet – Make connections between new and old learning– Questions– Thinking Maps– Poems– Songs– Homework– Classwork– Brainstorming– Sketches related to learning– Other relevant information

Examples of Left Side Assignments

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.

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Illustrated Outlines

Sensory Figures

Sensory Figures, cont.

Concept Map

Acrostics

Venn Diagram

Student Materials• Spiral notebook (STAYS IN CLASS)• Colored pencils• Glue stick • Maybe tape

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– Everyone’s ISN must MATCH!

A new notebook for each quarter!!!

Deductions for Lateness and Lack of Chronological

Order • 1. If a student has forgotten to bring their notebook for

that particular class when a notebook check is announced, they may bring it by the very next calendar day, but 30% will be deducted from their notebook score for that check; If the notebook is brought the next time US History meets (two calendar days later), 50% will be deducted from the overall score for that check. After two calendar days, no points can be earned for that notebook check.

• 2. Any right side assignment that is found to be out of chronological order will cause a 10% reduction in the overall score of a notebook evaluation.

Each time the notebook is evaluated it will constitute a test grade. Notebook checks are unannounced and can occur at any random time during the school year.

How long should it take to work on my

notebook? • Normally class time is given to work on right

side assignments and sometimes this includes time to work on a left side. The expectation is that you will revisit their right side that evening or the next to review the material by completing a left side activity of your own choosing. Once you have a good understanding of the kinds of left side activities that can be done, it should take you about 15 minutes to complete a left side.

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THE ISNTHE ISN

Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook

THE ISN

Initial Set Up• 1. The notebook should have been set up

following the directions given by Mrs. B in class (a copy of these can be found on our class website).

• 2. The table of contents must be updated regularly and will be checked during each notebook check.

• 3. Any missing or incomplete part of these directions will cause a 25% deduction in the overall evaluation grade each time the notebook is evaluated.

• COURSE EXPECTATIONS stapled in place

Inside cover

Your namePeriod

Decorate the page

AUTHOR’S PAGE

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Cover • Using photos, clippings, markers,

glue, paper, and scissors, etc., decorate the cover of your Interactive Student Notebook as if it were the cover to the book that tells the story of YOUR life thus far.