Setting Up Your Interactive Student Notebook (ISN)

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Notebook (ISN)Notebook (ISN)

Setting Up Your Setting Up Your Interactive Student Interactive Student

Notebook (ISN)Notebook (ISN)

Your Key to Success Your Key to Success in United States Historyin United States History

Have you ever heard yourself say . . .

Materials Needed (everyday):

Composition Notebook Pens or pencils

Colored pencilsGlue sticks

What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized textbook• A working portfolio – all of your

notes and classwork– in one convenient spot.

Inside Cover

Your NameMrs. Harbaugh

Your Class PeriodUnited States History

2012-2013

Author’s Page

You may decorate your page on your own time!

Rules and Procedures(Write the following word for word on the

last page of your notebook.)

1. The ISN must be brought to class every day.

2. NO Ripping out pages from the ISN. 3. The top left side is used for the Write

and Reflect (WAR) 4. You must write out the daily WAR

question or prompt before answering it in a complete sentence.

5. Draw a line under the WAR, and begin the Work It Out(WIO). (The WIO follows immediately after the WAR.) All work done in the WIO must be your own work. This is for comprehension.

6. The Words of Wisdom(WOW) is ALWAYS on the right hand side of the page.

Rules and Procedures (continued)

7. You must write the TOPIC #, TOPIC TITLE, and DATE on the top right hand corner for each entry. Make sure the WOW page always has the topic # on the top right.

8. Table of Contents must be filled in with each new entry.

9. Your ISN is part of the 30% class work grade and must be kept up to date.

Rules and Procedures –(continued)

10. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to copy down the missed assignment from the Master ISN Teacher Book or from the teacher’s website.

11. No doodling – no pictures that are irrelevant to the topic.

Rules and Procedures (continued)

WOW• The WOW is for learning!• The WOW are your notes from class.• The WOW has all “testable”

information.

WIO• The WIO is for “reflection”• The WIO lets me know if you

understand what was taught. The WIO belongs to YOU and only YOU! (Must be your own work!)

Table of Contents(next 4 pages of your ISN)

Chapter One– The World before the Opening of the Atlantic

1. The Earliest Americans

Topic Number

Topic Title

Example of Unit Page:Our Colonial Heritage

Illustrated Outlines

Sensory Figures

Sensory Figures, cont.

Concept Map

Acrostics

Comic Strips

Venn Diagram