Interactive Student Interactive Student NotebooksNotebooks

“ISN”

What is the ISN?

Notebook for grammar and videos

A creative outlet

An alternate portfolio

A place to keep organized notes

Setting up your ISN

❀ Decorate the cover (this should be about Spanish class)

❀ Number pages (front and back) beginning at 1 (in the upper outside corner)

❀ Decorate and label your title page (this should be all about YOU)

❀ Glue in the necessary pages (see handout)

❀ Format your Table of Contents (TOC)

Right Hand❀ Always odd pages

❀ For notes (Cornell style unless told otherwise). Notes that are more than a page should be glued to the bottom of the current sheet (see class example)

❀ Also for worksheets, tests, handouts, and quizzes, classwork, and homework.

❀ Use highlighters and graphic organizers to make notes meaningful.

Right Hand Examples

Left Hand Used to synthesize information and notes.

Always even pages

Can use any the following activities:Thinking Maps Foldables

Original Drawings Reflections

Postcards Cartoons

Sentences or Paragraphs (in Spanish)

Posters/Comic Strips

Advertisements Poems

“What if?” Statements HOT questions w/answers

Left Hand Examples

Things to Remember

❀ For every page of notes, there should be a heft-hand assignment.

❀ DO NOT use the back of a page for notes. Continue on a separate sheet.

❀ Use varied assignments on the left-hand side.

❀ Glue in sheets at the beginning of class instead of waiting until the next day (or later).

Things to Remember

It’s okay to draw on your notes.

Complete all left-hand assignments after writing summary of Cornell Notes.

Don’t wait until last minute to create left-side assignments.