Remember historians frequently disagree. But they also produce interpretations which can be connected together to form larger and larger pictures of the past. and what one might expect to learn from them. As your groups get more organized you will want to make sure that someone in your group covers each question so that the group can share their answer and ask questions about it. The journal that you keep this semester will be an important part of our class. Your journal will be exploratory writing.
Exploratory writing is part of the process of thinking and a document of it.
The process of writing will stimulate your imagination and help you to generate ideas about our course. The entries that you make in your journal will be of special interest to yourself, because you will write them in your own way. Your journal is the place where you can give full range to your ideas and freedom to your writing style. Entries in your journal should allow you to enjoy writing, actively involve you in issues raised by the course, and prepare you for other more formal writing assignments. Journal entries should be typed, carefully labeled, and dated.