1. Interactive Notebooks
Mr. Williamson

2. Interactive Notebook Cover
Mr. Williamson’s Class
1-2 Quarter
Name________________________
*add the above to the cover of your notebook along with a creative cover

5. Getting Started
Author Page (put this at the top of the page)
Where? First Page of Notebook
It should include the following: 5 sentences about the author and a picture of the author.

7. Interactive Notebook Proficiency Scale
have all expectations (daily objectives, titles, page numbers, Table of Contents, notes attached, highlighting, activities) completed with details and quality (neat & organized).
have one or two missing expectations but what is completed is detailed
and quality.
have more than two missing expectations, what is completed isn’t detailed or quality.

8. Interactive Notebook Policies
Care and up keep of the notebook is the students responsibility. Students are expected to have their notebook DAILY!!
Notebooks will be graded at least once per unit of study and students will receive a 2 day warning prior to a notebook check.
When a student is absent, they are responsible for making up what was added to the notebook (See Mr. Williamson’s teacher page).

9. Students are expected to highlight daily Grading
Highlighting System
Key Words/Vocabulary/People or
Dates
Locations
Students are expected to highlight daily
Grading
Student can go back and Repaired your notebooks to improve their grade – see Scoring Rubric for scoring.

11. Table of Contents Table of Contents (put this at the top of the Page)
Skip 5 pages (back to back) right after the Author Page
Table of Contents should include the page number, topic of the day, and date
Example
1 Primary & Secondary Sources 8/6
Students will be expected to keep up on this on a daily basis!!

14. Guidelines – Input & Output
(left side of page)
This side is STUDENT created to practice material.
Examples: Thinking Maps, Bell work, All Activities
INPUT
(right side of page)
This side is TEACHER created to teach material.
Examples: Notes, documents, handouts, or pictures

15. Input & Output
Left
Teacher Created
Right
Student Created

18. Why do this???
Discuss this with your partner

19. Why Interactive Notebooks engage students:
• Students use both their visual and linguistic intelligences
• Note taking becomes an active process. These notebooks invite students to become engaged in their learning
• Notebooks help students to systematically organize as they learn. With the teacher’s encouragement, students can used their notebooks to record ideas about every activity they engage in during a unit. Have them use a variety of organization techniques-topic headings, colored highlights, different writing styles-to synthesize historical concepts and make coherence of what they learn.
• Notebooks become a portfolio on individual learning. These personal, creative notebooks become a record of each student’s growth. The teacher, students, and even parents can review a student’s progress in writing, illustrating, recording, thinking, and organization skills.