1. August 17, 2011 Do Now: Quietly find your seat
Take out a pencil AND a pen
Take out your ISN notebook
Write in your agenda
Agenda for today:
Warm-up
MAZE assessment
Create ISN---Label TOC, leave space for friendly letter and warm-up
Friendly letter
Show website
Procedure BINGO

2. ISN Take out your ISN notebook
IF you do not have it (shame!!!) take out a piece of scrap paper or get one in the bookshelf
Record your warm-up on page FIVE

3. Walking on the Boundaries of Change Sara Holbrook
Day by day
a tightrope,
walking on the boundaries
of change,
One step –
firm, familiar,
the next step –
shaky, strange.

4. Some friends will dare danger, mock or push each step
Some friends will dare danger, mock or push each step. knock your confidence.

5. Real friends form a net.

6. What do YOU have to say about this poem?
On page five of your ISN, write “Warm Up”. Underneath, in complete sentences, respond to the poem
Can you relate to it? What does it remind you of? The only response that is unacceptable is not responding.
(And anything that is not school appropriate)

7. MAZE Assessment

8. Creating our LA ISN

9. How is it organized? Notes Left Side Right Side Learning Objective:
Cue Questions
Notes
Summary

10. Left Side – Right Side Orientation
The Left side is “left” for students. This is the side that students can use to demonstrate their understanding & creativity.
The Right side is “Restricted” and contains teacher guided notes

11. Right Side Teacher presents new info
Class notes (Cornell)
Discussion notes
Reading notes
Video notes
Handouts with new information
Graphic organizers
Vocabulary
Foldables
An opportunity for teachers to model how to think graphically
Odd Pages

12. Left Side- Students Process New Ideas
Reorganize new information in creative formats
Express opinions and feelings
Requires students to actively do something with the information to internalize it
Gives students permission to be playful, imaginative, experimental, creative
Allows various learning styles to process information
Even Pages

14. What can go in it? Drawings Poetry Raps Graphic organizers Cartoons
Maps
Charts and graphs
Invitations
Letters
ANYTHING!!!

15. More Examples of Left Side
Making Real World Connections
Thinking Maps
Political Cartoons & Comic Strips
Annotated Illustrations
Advertisements
Illustrated Proverbs
Journaling
Book or CD Covers
Caricatures
What if...situations
Poetry
Sensory Figures
Facial Expressions

16. Acrostics

17. Comic Strips

20. Venns & Thinking Maps

21. Remember… Summary added AFTER questions are finished
Summary should address the day’s learning objective
Summaries DO NOT replace left side processing. You still need to process your notes. (on the left side)

22. Lets Begin….
Have students save 5-10 pages at the front of the notebook to house information about notebook (rubrics,syllabus), and the cumulative table of contents.
Have them number the pages immediately so that they start in an organized fashion.
Number each page front and back
Odd pages on left Even pages on the right.
There will be no blank pages
Pages do not get torn out!!!

23. First Assignment Write a friendly letter introducing yourself to me
Include in your letter:
Where you grew up
What you like to do for fun
How you like to learn
Your goals for Language Arts
What you would like to improve in Language Arts
What you are looking forward to in Language Arts
Your own personal mantra

25. Ms. C’s Website

26. Classroom procedures BINGO