Interactive Student Notebook Your Key to Success in Reading / Accelerated Reading

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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 PAGE LEFT PAGE Student Responses Pg # 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.

Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook THE 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 name Period Decorate the page AUTHOR’S PAGE #1

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.