1. Your Success in English Class

2.   A personalized textbook  A working portfolio that contains all of your notes, assignments, quizzes, terms, all in one place. What is an Interactive Notebook?

3.   Be a creative, independent, and reflective thinker and writer throughout the year.  Express your own ideas and process in order to apply the information and skills learned during class. Purpose

4.  Pages in Notebook  Left Side  Right Side Teacher Information Student Information

5.   The left side is to record your thinking, reflections, thoughts, impressions, connections, and wonderings.  The left side belongs to you!  Apply skills learned in class  Use grafts, charts, and diagrams  Make connections between new and prior knowledge  Questions  Homework  Classwork  Brainstorming Left Side

6.   Vocabulary Cards  Compare & Contrast Terminology  Poems  Writing Assignments  Creative Designs  Conceptual Frameworks  Mini Posters  Think-Pair-Share Activites Examples of LSAs

7.   The right side belongs to Ms. Starr  The right side contains all testable information  Vocabulary  Cornell Notes  Class reading  Handouts  Content and language objectives  Study guides Right Side

8.   Cornell Notes:  Literary Terms  Sentence Patterns Practice  Author’s Purpose  Reading Strategies  Vocabulary Terms  In-class Assignments  Close Reading of Texts  The Writing Process Examples of RSAs

9.   Composition Notebook  College-ruled  No spiral notebooks  You will need one per semester  Highlighters  Glue  Tape (for page extenders)  Colored Pencils  Markers  Scissors Materials

10.   No ripped out pages or torn corners  No doodling that doesn’t relate to classwork  Each page needs a date, title, and page number  Everyone’s ISN must match!  Update your Table of Contents daily Maintaining Your Interactive Student Notebook

11.   Your notebook will be 30% of your total grade each semester.  Your notebooks will be evaluated unannounced and periodically. Each notebook evaluation will be a notebook “test” score.  Therefore, it is imperative you maintain and bring your notebook to class everyday! Grades

12.   If you forgot your notebook when a notebook check is announced, you may bring it the very next day, but it will be deducted 30%.  After two calendar days, no points can be earned for that notebook evaluation.  Any right side assignment that is out of order will automatically be deducted 10% for that particular notebook evaluation. Deductions for Lateness and Lack of Order

13.   The first thing you need to do is check my moodle website on the PHS webpage. Go to PHS high school home page  student  online learning  Eng 3-4 Starr  This will give you an outline of the day’s events and the homework assigned.  You need to see me before or after school when you return to school. I will keep a master copy of the class’ interactive notebook with the formatting in order for you update your notebook.  This is very important! Do not fall behind in keeping your notebook current. Remember, notebook checks are unannounced. What if I’m absent?

14.   You will need to immediately start another notebook.  You will need to view and copy the class’ notebook outside of regular class.  You will need to make up the LSAs.  The percentage you are currently earning will be used as a temporary Interactive Notebook score until you are back on track. What if I lose it?

15.   You will be held responsible for day to day assignments, homework, & Cornell notes.  At the end of each week, stamps are highlighted and counted for credit. Late stamps are never an option.  I will grade your daily assignments in class based on this rubric: Got Stamps? 3 Points (a WOW product) all requirements are evident and EXCEEDED the product is VERY neatly done and EXTREMELY well- organized the product shows LOTS of creativity completed on time 2 Points (what is EXPECTED) the requirements are evident the product is neatly done and organized the product shows some creatively completed on time 1 Point (One or More Parts are Missing) few of the requirements are evident the product is fairly neatly done and partly organized the product shows little creativity completed on time

16.  Initial Set Up Inside Front Cover  Gems of Wisdom  extra credit opportunity  authentic reflection  spontaneous assignment  record of learning process  points are added each notebook evaluation  gems of wisdom credit = one extra-credit stamp First Page  Author’s Page #1 Your Name Period Decorate the Page!

17.   Pages 2-5 in your notebook  Title each of these pages “Table of Contents”  Each page needs to look like this: Table of Contents Assignment Title Page #