Dear Mother-Teacher,
Before I homeschooled, I taught high school history. I collected work from their notebooks, and all of their work went into their notebooks. I didn’t collect any worksheets; I only graded their notebooks.
Notebooking shows the students’ understanding and love of a subject or topic. While notebooking, students practice their handwriting, drawing, and narrating skills. As time goes on with notebooking, students learn to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate topics.
Notebooking isn’t only for elementary students; notebooking works for high schoolers. They do the same right-hand, left-hand page layout. Extras go on the left-hand page, and narrations with illustrations go on the right.
What changes is their narration. Rather than only retelling the story, high school students have to be able to connect the dots. For example, students should be able to retell a story from history and explain the effect. In other words, how did one event lead to another?
In high school, narrations and notebooking should be done individually with little, if any, guidance, especially if the student has been notebooking since elementary school.
Do your high schoolers’ notebook?
Yours faithfully,
- Mirley
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