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Taking Textbook Notes

Taking Textbook Notes. Please have your textbook open to chapter 10 Have a piece of paper and pencil ready to go. WHY TAKE NOTES?. You need to be able to take notes to Remember what was said and written in class and from your textbook Helps you develop critical thinking skills

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Taking Textbook Notes

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  1. Taking Textbook Notes Please have your textbook open to chapter 10 Have a piece of paper and pencil ready to go

  2. WHY TAKE NOTES? • You need to be able to take notes to • Remember what was said and written in class and from your textbook • Helps you develop critical thinking skills • “GOOD” notes can help you prepare for test

  3. Textbook formats • Almost every textbook follows this format • An introduction to the chapter (in our case the field notes) • Key ideas / questions / concepts for the chapter • The textbook is then set-up in outline form. In our book the major heading is in BLACK BOLD type • Sub points are the written in GREEN type • Points within the sub points are in a BURNT ORANGE color • How would you make this into an outline? • I • A • i

  4. Chapter Notes– Before you start reading • Title your paper with the Chapter number and main topic • In this case it should be Chapter 10 Development • Next turn to the Key Questions for the chapter and write them in your notes • Now turn to the last page of the chapter and take a mental note of all of the vocabulary used in the chapter. • Make a chart on your paper with 3 columns • 1) words I know • 2) words I think I know but need to see in context • 3) words I should look up

  5. Before you start reading • Next read the chapter summary at the end of the chapter • What does this tell you? • Read the Field Note • What is the title of the field note? • Summarize it in 3-4 sentences

  6. Reading and outlining notes Write down the BOLDED title • How is development defined and measured • Wide variety of wealth around the world • Africa farmers growing root crops • South Korean Automobile production • Development can not be measured in $ alone • Can’ be measured solely on what is produced but on how and where it is produced as well • Development means “progress” • Technology • production • Social and Economic well-being of the people

  7. Gross National Income • Three ways of measuring- Economic welfare/Technology and production/Social Welfare • Economic welfare • GNP • GDP • GNI • Per Capita GNI • US $45,850 --Luxembourg $64,400--India $3580—Nigeria $1770 • Formal economy-- • Informal economy – • Limitations of the GNI— • Extremes in distributions of wealth • Doesn’t measure outputs IE pollution • Alternative measures • Technology-- occupational structure what are people doing for work? • Production how productive is the population? • Communication how main telephones internet users • Dependency Ratio- • Percentage of young and old depending on 100 employed people

  8. Supplementary notes • On a separate piece of paper you should have titled • Chapter 10 supplementary notes • This should include the following • Vocabulary words from the chapter with a definition for each term • These are found in order in the reading in BLACK BOLD FACE TYPE • A listing of models and a corresponding drawing and description of each model as well as the page number you found the model • For example • ROSTOWS LADDER OF DEVELOPMENT (pg. 342) Five stages of ec0nomic development Traditional Preconditions to takeoff Takeoff Drive to maturity High Mass consumption

  9. Supplementary notes cont • You should then include questions you have or clarification you would like about the reading or concepts addressed in class

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