The HIS 205 Field School Notebook is the one major separate HIS 205 academic responsibility.  Each student should write daily in their Field School Notebook.  The purpose of the Notebook is both to help you to absorb and remember new information and to encourage you to engage in the on-going process of reflecting upon this new learning and your Field School experiences.  Appropriate material for the Notebook includes but is not limited to the following:

-- In the field notes associated with the various sites we visit;

-- Photography field notes;

-- Notes from assigned or optional readings and documentaries;

-- Notes based upon your own independent in-the-field or on-line research;

-- Notes drawn from pre-trip study;

-- Notes connected to a few in-trip exercises;

-- Observations, musings, jottings, and reflections.

This assignment is meant to provide you with raw material for your Final Project and also to connect to the Cultural Lens #2 and Cultural Lens #3 mini-assignments.  You should be be thinking about the Final Project from early in the Field School and should try to structure your Notebook so that it helps to orient you for that.

One option is to get a Notebook and then hand write everything in that.  A completely digital approach, however, is also appropriate and I am open to a hybrid portfolio approach that combines hand writing and some digital reflection so long as this is then presented to me in an organized way.

Reflective Writing:  I encourage all students to include at least some reflective writing in your Notebook, though the amount of this will vary from student to student.  Some of you who like to write may want to consider some longer Journal-like entries or even a full Travel Journal.  I would suggest the latter only for those of you who would like to do that and who think they want something to help remember their trip by.

The Field School Notebook is a HIS 205 responsibility and should contain much information about history.  It's fine to include other material as well, however, including more personal reflections and observations.