The document describes an Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) for a Spanish class. The ISN is used to keep organized notes, as an alternative portfolio, and for creative work. Students are instructed to decorate the cover, number pages, include a title page, and format a table of contents. Notes are written on right-hand pages using styles like Cornell notes or by gluing in worksheets. Left-hand pages are for synthesizing information through activities like drawings, reflections, posters, or poems. Students should complete a left-hand activity for each set of notes.

1. Interactive Student
Notebooks
“ISN”

2. What is the ISN?
 Notebook for grammar and videos
 A creative outlet
 An alternate portfolio
 A place to keep organized notes

3. 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)

4. 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.

5. Right Hand Examples

6. 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 Posters/Comic Strips
Spanish)
Advertisements Poems
“What if?” Statements HOT questions w/answers

7. Left Hand Examples

8. 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).

9. 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.