Interactive Notes
The purpose of completing an interactive notebook page for each chapter is to help you process, organize and synthesize information. Each interactive notebook pages must include 5 things. You may include a combination of the following:
Must Have (at least one of the following):
- One story element
- One quote
- One personal impression or conclusion
May Have:
1. Story Information: Characters, Setting, Plot Development, Significant Quotes
2. Language: Terms and Definitions; Figurative Language-metaphor, simile, hyperbole; Content Specific Terms; Wording: colloquial, slang or academic
3. Literary Feature: Foreshadowing, Irony, Motif, Point of View, Allegory, Alliteration, Allusion
4. Personal Impressions or Conclusions: Inferences, Predictions, Themes, Questions
Document Findings: you may choose to share your conclusions and findings in whatever format works best for you:
- Writing or Drawing
- Document Quotes
- Concept Maps
- Creating Lists
- The Sky's the Limit
Keep in mind Bloom’s Taxonomy of Critical Thinking:
- Recall-repeat or retell information. Recall involves remembering and reciting key facts, ideas, definitions, and rules.
- Analysis-involves separating the main ideas or components of a larger whole—that is, dividing a whole into its smaller parts to create "information clusters," related pieces that fit together to form the whole.
- Comparison-refers to noting the similarities and difference among the component parts. Comparison asks how the component parts are alike and how they are different.
- Inference-making predictions or generalizations through deductive or inductive reasoning:
Start with a general statement or principle and then explain how specific details relate to it.
Inductive reasoning: investigate specific details in search of an underlying, unifying general principle.
- Evaluation-reaching a conclusion supported by evidence. Bring together your analyses, comparisons, and inferences to synthesize a conclusion.
Must Have (at least one of the following):
- One story element
- One quote
- One personal impression or conclusion
May Have:
1. Story Information: Characters, Setting, Plot Development, Significant Quotes
2. Language: Terms and Definitions; Figurative Language-metaphor, simile, hyperbole; Content Specific Terms; Wording: colloquial, slang or academic
3. Literary Feature: Foreshadowing, Irony, Motif, Point of View, Allegory, Alliteration, Allusion
4. Personal Impressions or Conclusions: Inferences, Predictions, Themes, Questions
Document Findings: you may choose to share your conclusions and findings in whatever format works best for you:
- Writing or Drawing
- Document Quotes
- Concept Maps
- Creating Lists
- The Sky's the Limit
Keep in mind Bloom’s Taxonomy of Critical Thinking:
- Recall-repeat or retell information. Recall involves remembering and reciting key facts, ideas, definitions, and rules.
- Analysis-involves separating the main ideas or components of a larger whole—that is, dividing a whole into its smaller parts to create "information clusters," related pieces that fit together to form the whole.
- Comparison-refers to noting the similarities and difference among the component parts. Comparison asks how the component parts are alike and how they are different.
- Inference-making predictions or generalizations through deductive or inductive reasoning:
Start with a general statement or principle and then explain how specific details relate to it.
Inductive reasoning: investigate specific details in search of an underlying, unifying general principle.
- Evaluation-reaching a conclusion supported by evidence. Bring together your analyses, comparisons, and inferences to synthesize a conclusion.