Interactive Notebook

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Interactive Notebook

• Your Key to Success
• in Social Studies

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Have you ever heard yourself say . . .
I can't find my . . . notes, homework, old
quizzes . . .
I can't remember what we did in class yesterday.
I'm sure its in . . . my locker . . . my book bag
. . . my room . . .
I was absent last week, did I miss anything?
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Get it together with your
Interactive Notebook
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What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized textbook
• A working portfolio all of your notes,
  classwork, quizzes in one convenient spot.

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Left Side Right Side Orientation

• The Left side is left for you. This is the
  side that you can use to show me your creativity.
• The Right side is Restricted and contains
  teacher guided notes. Nothing else should be
  placed on the Right side!!

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Left Side

• The left side belongs to you. It contains your
  warm-up (question mark) and the days activity
  (light bulb). On this page you may include
  diagrams, cartoons, drawings, poems, foldables,
  etc.

Odd Pages
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Examples of Left Side Assignments

• Warm-Up
• Webs
• Diagrams
• Poems
• Reflections
• Comics

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Advertisements
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Illustrated Outlines
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Sensory Figures
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Sensory Figures, cont.
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Concept Map
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Acrostics
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Comic Strips
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Venn Diagram
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Right Side

• The right side belongs to me and should only
  contain teacher directed guided notes. Nothing
  else should be placed on this page! The right
  side contains the notepad icon and will contain
  all the testable material.

Even Pages
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Examples of Right Side Assignments

• Notes
• Study Guides
• Vocabulary

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Student Materials

• Mead 5 Star Notebook
• Erasable pens
• Colored pencils
• Glue sticks (2 per month)
• Scissors
• Highlighters

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Maintaining the Interactive Notebook

• No ripped out pages or torn corners
• No doodling that doesnt relate to notes
• Notebook should only be used in Social Studies.
  (No other classes!!)
• Date and number each page