AF: Dear Student and Classmates

Here is a question I received from a student via email:

My apologies, Ms. Fletcher. I have few questions my classmates and I have been wondering if you don’t mind.

Would you like us to print out the debate articles, annotate them, then glue it onto our notebooks? I wasn’t so sure since there’s a variety of articles to label on the notebook. 

After reading the Long Reads, do we print them out as well and annotate them into our notebooks? 

There are 7-pages of detailed instructions for summer homework, linked behind that blonde lady.

The phrase "...since there's a variety of articles to label on the notebook" is confusing to me.  What do you mean by "label on the notebook"?  This phrase seems clear, but what does it mean?

Just in case I am losing my mind, I searched the homework instructions for the words "annotate" and "glue," and I only got one hit:  "annotate."  But that word appears in a passage of advice on how best to read nonfiction text.  The word "glue" does not appear anywhere.  

I do not understand where you kids (the speaker and "[her] classmates") are getting these ideas. It's not that I have never asked people to glue stuff into notebooks -- I actually do that often.  But not now, not yet, and there is nothing I can find that explains where that idea originated.  

There are actually detailed instructions about the notes you should be taking as you work with The Long Read and Room for Debate.  Please make sure you read those notes, because if you just glue a bunch of articles into your notebook instead...well, that will be a problem.

There is a checklist of everything you have to do for summer homework at the end of the summer homework instructions.  Print that page out, and work with that.  

AFletcher