Interactive Notebooks Mr Williamson Interactive Notebook Cover Interactive

Interactive Notebooks Mr. Williamson

Interactive Notebook Cover Interactive Notebook Mr. Williamson’s Class 2014 -2015 1 -2 Quarter Name____________ -------------------------*add the above to the cover of your notebook along with a creative cover

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.

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.

Interactive Notebook Policies 1. Care and up keep of the notebook is the students responsibility. Students are expected to have their notebook DAILY!! 2. Notebooks will be graded at least once per unit of study and students will receive a 2 day warning prior to a notebook check. 3. When a student is absent, they are responsible for making up what was added to the notebook (See Mr. Williamson’s teacher page).

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

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!!

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

Input & Output Left Student Created Teacher Created Right

Why do this? ? ? • Discuss this with your partner

• 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.