Permission slips are due today. Finish recording the questions and answering them on your paper "U.S. History Intro Survey" and turn it in. Textbooks were distributed. The "white book" (by Henretta, Hinderacker, Edwards, & Self) is the traditional textbook from which the assigned homework readings will come. Chapter 1 is due next Friday. To get started, we set up two "E.Q." (Essential Question) pages ON PAPER (no typed notes) -- one for Book Notes and one for Class Activities. Instead of a separate CQ page, put your curiosity questions directly into your E.Q. notes and color code them to stand out (colored pen or highlight). I suggested students may want to purchase their own copy of the textbooks used from abebooks.com or textbooks.com if they find it helpful to be able write in their books. Another option is to use the books I checked out to them and to write notes on post-it notes. In either case, using the small, clear, colored post-it tabs to tag key points in the book is useful. We then began "gutting" the first part of Chapter 1 all together via SMARTboard with my demonstrating how to pull out good notes and be focused during reading, reminding to have Google up and running for looking up terms as needed. Students then continued the work with access to each other for collaboration and I roamed, giving feedback on their note-taking.
