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.
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
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.
