1. Ms. Baumeister English 10/H English 10
First Day
Ms. Baumeister
English 10/H English 10

2. Sit in your COLOR groups
SWBAT: understand the expectations of English 10/H English 10
Collect SR notes
Seating Charts
Syllabus
Course Q/A

3. Interactive Notebooks

4. Sit in your Color groups. Copy the objective (SWBAT
Sit in your Color groups!!! Copy the objective (SWBAT..) onto the top of page 1 of your notebook. Follow that with the agenda for the day.
SWBAT: 1. share their best thing/worst thing about break 2. understand the procedures for interactive notebooks
Ice breakers
notes

5. Best thing/Worst thing
On your first page in your notebook, write down the best thing that you experienced over break, and the worst thing that you experienced over break.
cannot be: had to come back to school and have Baumeister as your English 10 teacher as worst thing….

6. Best/Worst Whole Group
Choose a leader from your table group
They are going to share their best or worst things from your groups. Yes, leaders will need to share everyone’s best worst things.
We may have questions, so be prepared 

7. Interactive Notebooks
Ms. Baumeister
English 10/H English 10

8. What is an interactive notebook?
A style of notetaking that utilizes as notebook as a collection of work to be reflected upon as a whole unit.
Includes journal, reflection, notes, homework, objectives, summaries, organizational table of contents, foldables, etc.

9. How/Why does it work? Requires you to use both sides of your brain
Requires you to record and respond to information in a manner that is organized, systematic, personal, and intentional
Enables you to refer to that information more quickly and to apply it more effectively
Provides a structure in which there is room for creative variation and requires thoughtful, self-directed interaction

10. Front cover of your notebook
First and Last name
Class Period
English 10/Honors English 10

11. Inside
Number your pages in the upper exterior corner of each page. Odds should be on the right hand pages, even numbers on the top left hand pages. Number to page 20 or so
Count three lines from the bottom on every odd-numbered page (on the right side) and trace the fifth line from the bottom in highlighter or marker. This is where you will write your daily summary (what we did in class). You will do this everyday as your closing activity. You may want to write the word “summary” on your first line of the highlighted area

12. Inside front cover Glue the rubric to the inside of the front cover
You should refer to it often to remind yourself of the expectations of this notebook
Ms. Baumeister will staple a mini version to your notebook cycles after they have been graded.

13. Table of Contents Turn to the last page of your notebook
Begin a table of contents
Fold last page hotdog style and draw a line down the middle
Number the even lines on the left side and the odd numbers on the right side. MAKE SURE THAT YOU LABEL THE FIRST LINE ON THE LEFT SIDE COVER NOT 2.
Next to COVER write: Rubric
Next to 1 write: notes about IN

14. Let’s get using these books
Page 1
Heading: Things to remember about interactive notebooks

15. Summary!

16. Day 2: Sit with your Number Groups!!
SWBAT: Write their hopes and finish notes on notebooks.
LS/RS Setup
Hope activity
Notes

17. Right side v left side of notebook
Right side (odd pages) is your library
Lecture notes, discussion, seminar, summary, foldables
Left side (even pages) is your laboratory
meaningful, authentic questions and seek their answers
Journal
Reflection

18. Guidelines for Notebooks
Date a new page every day
Copy the daily objective and agenda on RS
Notes on RS
Both listening and writing
Do not depend on Ms. Baumeister to tell you what to write down
Listen for verbal cues (repetition, “this is important”)
Do not write everything down word for word unless directed
Paraphrase instead
Ask for clarification, rather than to repeat
Use highlighters to mark important ideas

19. LS
Journal #1:
Reflection: What was the most important thing that you learned today? (3-5 sentences) RS
Notes
Summary

20. Journal #1 (Five sentences or more)
What is the number one hope you have for yourself? Is this hope for you now, at the end of 10th grade? Five years into the future? How will succeeding in this hope affect your future?

21. Visual Hope
Take a piece of printer paper and illustrate your hope. You can put your name on the back of it. You should fill the page, not just draw a stick figure in the corner. Also make sure to title the picture with what your hope is.