I hope that you are all prepared for tomorrow's Recitation Day. After morning prayer we will remain in the sanctuary for your recitations. The order of your recitations will be random. After recitations are over we will return to our room and you will write a description of one of the pieces that you heard and if there is any time left we will begin our study of Andrew Jackson.
I mentioned this before break, but make sure that you have taken the time to give your notebooks some attention. All your papers should be correctly filed in their proper places. I also promised some tips for the keeping of your timelines and key people in your chapters, so here goes:
#1 When doing both of these assignments put the entire chapter onto one timeline and one list. Don't do a seperate one for each weeks readings - you want the whole period accessible at a glance.
#2 Put your timeline first and one that you created yourself will serve your SELF - EDUCATION better than one you printed out. It's ok to check and revise your timeline by another and it's ok to include another in addition to your own, but take the time to do this work.
#3 As you may have noticed the chapters are not strictly chronological, there is a bit of shuffling because of how different topics are related. When you make your timeline it is a good idea to leave space between dates to add more information later. On the timelines I have made it has worked well to leave about 5 lines between each year. So if my first date is 1806 and my next is 1808 - I have ten lines between them - but figure out what works for you!
#4 A list of people's names with absolutely no indication of who they are or why they are in this chapter is of nearly no use to you. You should not write down someone's name without also recording relevant information about them. Some people require more space than others. I have found that there have been at least a couple of people in each chapter who warrant their own page. For instance in a few chapters Thomas Jefferson has warranted his own page, likewise Burr in last chapter, and even Jackson. It should be obvious that in this era of 'Andrew Jackson' that he will most likely warrant his own page as well.
Below I've included a couple of photographs of some of my notebook pages so you get the idea:
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