How to handle book annotations when multiple classes share the same copies
When students write in shared books, notes from earlier classes crowd the margins and interfere with the next periods. Sticky notes seem like a solution, but they easily fall out of journals and lose student work.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Having students keep a separate reading diary or journal for notesDid this help you?
- 2Printing off specific passages or important scenes for students to annotateDid this help you?
- 3Having students initial their annotations or use different colors per classDid this help you?
In their words
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“Sure, they can write in these books, but if my 1st period does that, then by the time it gets to my last period, there's going to be a fair amount of coopting what's already there.”source ↗
“The post it’s are great in theory but I tried post its in their journals one year and the things just fall out left and right.”source ↗
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