Transcript AVID Interactive Notebook

Have you ever heard yourself say…
Get it together with your…
What is an Interactive Notebook?
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A place where all of your work will be kept
 Notes
 Class
work (most of it)
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A record of what you’ve learned this year
Your own personalized textbook!
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A part of your AVID grade!!!
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Why Do We Use an Interactive
Notebook?
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Uses both the right and left hemispheres of the
brain
Sort, categorize and remember information
Creatively interact with new knowledge
The MORE you process, the MORE you
understand and the LONGER you retain the
information
What you’ve learned over the course of the
year, all in one place!
Two Composition Books
Tape the two
composition books
together
- “Focus Notes”
on Top
- “100-sheet
Composition
Book” on the
Bottom
Focus-Notes (Note-taking)
Composition Book
100-sheet Composition
Book
Setting Up the AVID INB
1.
Number each RIGHT-HAND page
 1,3,5,7,9…
and so on
Focus-Notes
 The last right-hand page should be #159
100-Sheet Composition Book
 Begin numbering with the number 1
 The last right-hand page should be #199
2.
Tape composition books together
Expectations
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You bring the AVID Interactive Notebook (INB)
with you to class each and everyday
 YOU are responsible for your INB
You review your INB nightly and complete
any incomplete work and homework
Maintaining the AVID INB
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No ripped out pages or torn corners
No doodling that doesn’t relate to the work
New day = New DATE at top of pg.
Incomplete work AND homework completed
DAILY
Tab important assignments/notes using postits
Left vs. Right
Left-Side Activities
 Output, student
directed
 Shows your
understanding
 Interactions w/ info
 Reflects how you learn
 Use color; color helps
you REMEMBER
Right-Side Activities
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Input, teacher directed
Assignments
All right hand pages
need a complete
heading
 including date and
title/topic
Left-Side Activities