Class Notes  (submitted 3 times during the semester)

General Description: Submit your personal notes from in-class lectures and discussions. Treat this as if you are creating a clear and helpful resource on History.

Guiding Questions:
    -If you had to teach this class a year from now, would your notes be helpful?
    -Better yet, if somebody else had to teach this class based on your notes, would they be helpful?

Purpose

• Assignment Objectives:
• Managing Information: This assignment measures your ability to record and organize information as if you would use them for easy long-term recall.
• Critical Thinking: This assignment measures your ability to analyze recorded evidence and apply it to critical-thinking prompts.
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• Post-School Applications: Most workplaces require employees to record information and organize it in ways that help themselves and others for later use. Examples"
• employees record information to shape policy guides,
  
• devise workflow plans and instructions, and
  
• archive customer feedback.

Task

1. Take notes during class
   
   1. Lecture segments:               (includes: story/lecture/interactive lecture)
   • Write down main topics, points, and significance.
   2. Question Discussion segments:
      
   • Write down class discussion questions and your answer to them.
   3. Primary Source discussion segments:
      
   • Write down the title/author and what you learned from the document discussed in your breakout session.
     
   
   
2. Answer "Special Question" for the current class "section."
   
• (Questions listed at bottom of this page.)
  


3. Submit Notes to "Notes Submission" in Canvas at the end of Each "section."
1. Handwritten
1. Scan or take pictures and submit it as a single PDF.
2. Typed
1. Submit as docx,pdf,google doc
   

Measured Components: I will be looking for the following in assessing your notes.

1. Thoroughness
2. Accuracy
3. Organizational Clarity
4. Overall Usefulness for Information Recall and Later Study

Helpful Tips
a. You do not need quotes or citations, unless you find them helpful. Otherwise, I will presume you got your information from the in-class experience.
b. These must be your own work product. You may not take notes from a classmate or other sources. TurnItIn will make it vary obvious if you share or borrow notes. If you miss a class session, you are responsible for watching the recorded session posted on Canvas.
    You are also not allowed to auto-dictate/auto-transcribe my course lesson.
                  NO AI products may be used in the preparing of your notes for submission.

Section 1 Special Question: (Argument) Develop three thesis statements that reflect the learned content in Section 1. What do you think are the three key argumentative ideas that are the connective foundations of this section? (TIP: All three do not have to be related. They can cover three separate issues. But each should span across more than one lesson.)

--This submission should consist of 3 entries of 1 developed sentence each. (Argumentative thesis)

Section 2 Special Question:  (Evidence) Develop three examples that best represent themes of Section 2.  Choose three specific historical details/accounts/stories from the class or textbook.  Explain in two sentences each what the chosen example demonstrates or the historical lesson taken from that example.

--This submission should consist of 3 entries of 2-3 sentences each. (Example/explanation)

Section 3 Special Question: (Essay) Develop three essay questions that one would ask based on the material from Section 3.  Answer each of your questions.  Provide one piece of evidence to support each answer.  If you were to write three essay questions that both encompass the themes of the course and the material from this section to be answered in essay form what would they be?

--This submission should consist of 3 entries of 3-4 sentences each.  (Question/ Answer/ piece of evidence)

*Note: Failure to answer the Special Question automatically deducts 10% from assignment grade.