This document provides instructions for students to set up their notebooks and folders for history class. It includes: 1) Numbering the pages of their historian's notebook to create a table of contents and atlas section with maps. 2) Organizing class work like assignments and quizzes in a unit folder using a table of contents sheet. 3) Labeling the front of their notebooks and folders with their name and class information to keep materials organized all year. The setup aims to create a system for keeping learning materials in order.

1. End
Tuesday, September 3rd
Sit: Where you’ve been sitting
Take Out: Your composition notebook and your
folder with brads.
Folder Table of Contents
Page Title Due Points
7 ARQ #1 8/27 5
8 ARQ #1 8/27
9 DBQ #1 – What is an American? IC 5
Take: The papers from the front table.
On This Day in U.S. History:
1783– The Treaty of Paris which
ended the American Revolution was
signed.
Do Now
1. Copy page 6-9 on the table on the right onto the
Table of Contents you picked up from the front of
the room.
2. Put the following due dates in your planner
1. September 5th – ARQ #2
2. September 6th – Geography Quiz
What are we doing today and why?
• Setting up folders and notebooks in order to create a
system that will keep our learning organized all year
long.

2. Setting Up
Notebooks and Folders
• You have 2 things that you will need to bring to class
each day:
– Unit Folder: Contains all work and notes for the current
unit.
• You keep this organized using the FOLDER TABLE OF
CONTENTS SHEET and the website.
• Will be graded at the end of each unit.
– Historian’s Notebook: Contains an atlas, directions for
historical thinking exercises and a record of your learning
for the year.
• You will keep this organized using the website.
• Can be spot graded at any time.
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3. Historian’s Notebook
• Number the first 30 pages. Number both sides
of the page.
– Odd numbers are always on the right…even
numbers are on the left.
– You can number in any corner that you want.
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4. Turn to Page 11
• Write the following
neatly in the center
of the page:
Historical Atlas
of the
United States
1607-1877
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5. • Cut out around all of the maps that you got last
Thursday. Glue them to the following pages.
Label each page like the example
– 13 – Political Map of the U.S.
– 15 – Physical Map of the U.S.
– 17 – Northeast Region
– 19 – Southern Region
– 21 – Midwest Region
– 23 – Western Region
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6. Sticker Time
• Place a sticker on the front that says
– Your name
– Historian’s Notebook
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7. Unit 1 Folder
• Put the pages you have in order based on how
they are listed on the Table of Contents sheet.
• Place them in your folder in the brads.
• Place the Table of Contents in one of the
pockets. Don’t put it in the brads.
• Place a sticker on the front that says
– Your Name
– Unit 1: European Exploration and Settlement
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