The purpose of this interactive notebook...
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The purpose of this interactive notebook is to enable students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers.
Interactive notebooks are used for class notes, activities where students are asked to express their own ideas, and processing of the information presented in class.
Students use both their visual and linguistic intelligences
Approach understanding in many ways
Use many types of writing and graphic techniques
Each student can personalize their learning
Left brain controls the right side
Right brain controls the left side
Left Brain Right Brain
•Logical
•Sequential
•Rational
•Analytical
•Objective
•Looks at parts
•Random
•Intuitive
•Holistic
•Synthesizing
•Subjective
•Looks at wholes
Experimentation has shown that the two different sides, or hemispheres, of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking. The following table illustrates the differences between left-brain and right-brain thinking:
The Left side is “left” for students. This is the side that students can use to demonstrate their understanding & creativity.
The Right side is “Restricted” and contains teacher guided notes, homework, textbook outlines
Index Cards
4 Spiral Notebooks 11 x 8 ½ (*with PLASTIC covers 80-100 pages)
Blue or black pens/ pencils
Colored pencils
Glue sticks (10)
Scissors
Highlighters
1st Section – Tool Box (syllabus and reference materials)
Chapter Cover Page
Table of Contents
Notes
Processing Activities
Vocabulary
Homework Outlines
Left Side Right Side
Title
Homework or Notes Processing
Right Side
Title
Homework or Notes
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17 Topic
2 1/2”
/TITLE Ch. 11 Section 1
MAIN IDEA Early Industry & Inventions
HOMEWORK
I. How did factories get started? A. B. II. Why did factories start in New England? A. III. Why did women work in the mills? A. B. IV. How did manufacturing change? A. V. How did people, good, and messages move? A. B. VI. What new types of technology improved farming? A.
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Summary
Cue Questions
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6 TITLE Industrial Bubble Map
TITLE Ch. 11 National & Regional Growth
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Scores
Ch. 11 National & Regional Growth (1800-1844)
ADescribe how new machines impacted the way people worked and where they
lived
B Explain the factory system and working conditions for laborers
CDescribe how innovations in transportation, farming, and communication
influenced production
Examine practice of slavery Goal #2 Examine practice of slavery & plantation system
D Examine historical, social and cultural aspects of slavery
E Explain how new technology led to the growth of slavery
Goal #3 Compare nationalism and sectionalism
F Explain how changes in transportation unified the states
GIdentify sources of tension between different sections and solutions
Goal #1 Analyze impact of industrialization
Goals Sheet Colored Picture Student Record of scores
Table of Contents for Interactive Notebook
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1. The notebook will evaluated by the teacher with a random check . 2. No credit will be given for any entries not up to date or on the wrong
page. 3. It is the student’s responsibility to obtain class notes and to do
the left side processing activities when they are absent. This will be treated as part of make up work for the missed class.
4. All entries are to be numbered and dated. Each entry must be recorded IN THE CORRECT ORDER.
5. A student may only copy another student’s right side of the notebook to get missed class notes. Other portions of the notebook MUST BE UNIQUE unless the teacher specifies otherwise. Notebook entries must reflect the student’s personal learning experiences.
