1. Interactive Notebook Ms. Quintina Merriweather
AP Language and Composition
English III Honors

2. What is an interactive notebook?
A composition notebook that includes all notes taken in class and anything else that is class related and your personal connection to those notes.

3. Why is it called an INTERACTIVE notebook?
To interact is to connect
Bring together what you know with what you’ve learned
Think of what you’ve learned in class in combination to or as it relates to something else

4. How do you interact with what you’ve learned?
Left Side of Your Notebook
Right Side of Your Notebook
Your connections
Your way of understanding the notes, quote, terms
How you relate to or connect with your notes, quote, or terms.
Your notes from Class
Quotes
Terms from your mini handbook (found on Engrade)

5. What can you use on the left side?
Left Side of Your Notebook
Left Side of Your Notebook
Connect quotes to terms found in your mini handbook
Connect quotes to a text read in class
Connect terms to a text read in class.
Paraphrase
Give your own examples
Use graphic organizers
Venn diagrams, problem solution charts, outlines, Cause and effect charts, etc.
Draw pictures that relate to the notes, quotes, or terms
Connect notes, quotes, or terms to something you’ve learned in another class
Create discussion questions using the question templates used in class
Mnemonic devices
Brainstorming maps
Song lyrics, poems, movies

6. Left Side Work

7. Left Side Work: Sample Graphic Organizer

9. IF YOU WANT MORE EXAMPLES…
GOOGLE THEM

10. What do you need? Colored Pencils Highlighters of various colors
Glue sticks or tape
Hand-held pencil sharpener
Colorful Post-It® notes (optional)
Construction paper
BE CREATIVE!!!!!

11. What will go in your interactive notebook?
Table of Contents – Leave the first 3 FULL pages empty to create a running table.

12. What will go in your interactive notebook?
Terms from your Mini Handbook (found on Engrade)
Reading and Response Quotes
ALL notes taken in class.
Yes, you must transfer your notes to your interactive notebook.

13. Reading Response Quote
Left Side
Right Side
“Do what is right, not what is easy”

14. Terms from Mini Handbook
Left Side
Right Side
FEED CATS
Example/ Exemplification - Example is a specific event, person, or detail of an idea cited and or developed to support or illustrate a thesis or topic. Provide examples or cases in point. Are there examples – facts, statistics, cases in point personal experiences, interview quotations- that you could add to help you achieve the purpose of your essay?