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Our district is starting the year with remote learning, and students will be spending ample time on laptops. As we are meeting with students and posting texts, assignments, and resources all online, it is critical that we offer students meaningful opportunities to process their learning and thinking away from a screen. While many studies have pointed to the increased effectiveness of handwritten notes, the purpose of this notebook goes beyond the retention of information. In the workshop approach to teaching literacy, the notebook is the writer's "workbench" where students sketch out ideas and inspiration their pieces, engage in daily "quickwrites" to explore different topics and prompts, analyze and process newly researched information, and on many occasions, spill onto the page their hopes, fears, and frustrations. Come September, many of our incoming 9th graders will be mourning the "normal" first semester of high school that they thought they would experience in halls and classrooms of our building. We can't bring "normal" back, but we can offer an outlet--a special, bound red notebook destined for each student--that will help them to process and chronicle this extraordinary moment in history, growing not only as readers, writers, and historians but as people.

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Our district is starting the year with remote learning, and students will be spending ample time on laptops. As we are meeting with students and posting texts, assignments, and resources all online, it is critical that we offer students meaningful opportunities to process their learning and thinking away from a screen. While many studies have pointed to the increased effectiveness of handwritten notes, the purpose of this notebook goes beyond the retention of information. In the workshop approach to teaching literacy, the notebook is the writer's "workbench" where students sketch out ideas and inspiration their pieces, engage in daily "quickwrites" to explore different topics and prompts, analyze and process newly researched information, and on many occasions, spill onto the page their hopes, fears, and frustrations. Come September, many of our incoming 9th graders will be mourning the "normal" first semester of high school that they thought they would experience in halls and classrooms of our building. We can't bring "normal" back, but we can offer an outlet--a special, bound red notebook destined for each student--that will help them to process and chronicle this extraordinary moment in history, growing not only as readers, writers, and historians but as people.

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