InDesign Page question

Hello, doing a project for a college course, and having a hard time with something.
My book is complete, but the teacher advised us to make a new document and put it into a reader spread, which really is just moving all the stuff I already have over to the new document, while keeping a extra blank page, which makes everything from the left page, go to the right.
Anyways, I have objects that cross the boarder into the next page when I do this. It isnt a huge problem on some of the pages, but on others it is. So im looking for a way to make the pages more independant. I would rather not have them seperated, because of the project, she has us fold each page over on itself. So is there anyway short of going through every page and deleteing all the images that cross over?
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Cr0n0dbz/Untitled.png
That is a image of it. Notice how it crosses to the left page, but that page is saposed to be blank. I need help in making it so that it wont at least print to that side.
Thanks for any help!

Phase1234 wrote:
The assignment is to make a book that covers some of the different terms used in textography. My book, has the definition on the left side, and the example of it on the right.
In order to do this folding thing she wants us to do, I have to make all the definitions on the left, move to the right. This way they are on the backside of the fold, therefore on the left hand side of the binding.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If your definitions are to be on the left page after the book is bound, and the examples on the right, they need to appear in those positions when you look at the book in readers spreads (i.e. in your consecutive page layout) and in printers spreads too, though the order will be shuffled.
If the book is eight pages, for example, Print Booklet will impose this into four printers spreads like this (numbers are the actual physical pages, not necessarily the numers assigned to them in numbering options):
8 and 1 (outside back and outside front covers)
2 and 7 (Inside front and inside back covers)
6 and 3
4 and 5
Note that even numbers are ALWAYS on the left and odd numbers ALWAYS on the right in any pair.
When the paper is flipped page 2 will be on the back of page 1 and 7 on the back of 8, 4 on the back of three and 5 on the back of 6, and after collating and folding they will read in the correct order. Demonstrate this by taking two sheets of paper and folding them in half to make a blank booklet. Now number the leaves starting on the outside front, tuning pages until you get to the outside back, then open and separate the booklet and unfold the sheets.
You CAN do this kind of imposition by hand by dragging pages around in the panel, but you really shouldn't because it's prone to error and Print Booklet or a script will do it for you automatically. If you use a script or do it manually you need to be sure that you check the "spreads" box in the print dialog to get each spread to print together on the sheet. Imposing a document for commercial output is a big mistake, as mentioned earlier. Only the printer is in the position to know how it needs to be imposed to fit his equipment (he may need 8 or 16 pages on each side of the sheet, or some other number, depending on the size of the page and the press), and if you do it incorectly he must either undo it or ask you to submit the file again without imposing because he can't undo it, and either one of those cases will cost you money in surcharges.

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