# Turn a text into a teaching sequence — Gemini Notebook prompt

> For teachers. Takes an uploaded work or syllabus and proposes a session-by-session sequence, with the passage each session covers and the questions likely to come up — the planning pass, kept anchored to the actual text.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/islamic-studies/lesson-plan-from-syllabus — for AI and LLM crawlers. Content is identical to the web page._

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- Category: Islamic studies
- Goes in: Chat message

## The prompt

```
I am teaching [subject] from the sources I have uploaded, to [describe the students and their level], over [number] sessions.

Propose a teaching sequence. For each session:
- The passages it covers, cited by location
- The two or three points a student must leave with
- The prerequisite each point rests on, so I can see if my ordering is wrong
- Two questions students at this level commonly find difficult here, and where in the text the answer lies
- One short exercise drawn from the text itself

Then tell me:
1. Which sessions carry too much and should be split
2. What the sequence assumes students already know that my sources do not teach

Build only from the uploaded material. If a topic in my syllabus is not covered by these sources, list it separately as a gap rather than filling it in.
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## How to use it

1. Open your notebook at notebooklm.google.com.
2. Replace the [bracketed] parts with your specifics.
3. Paste the prompt into the chat box and send it.

Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.

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