Summarizing & Note-taking

1. Summarizing& Note-taking Session #1 Note-Taking Overview Reading, Listening & writing to Learn

2. The Why? • Studies show that your achievement will increase by 34% in all content areas.

3. Let’s Learn Like Historians • Seek to “discover” history. • Read like witnessing the event. • Read like a lawyer making a case. • Ask the purpose of the text. • View text as man-made with a view of events. • Assume bias in text. • Consider word choice and tone. • Compares text to judge different, perhaps opposing accounts of the same event or topic.

4. Taking Notes • Taking more notes is better thanfewer notes. • Writing down every word my teacher tells me to write down is ineffective because it does not allow time for me to process the information.

6. Which strategy will work best for you? • Cornell Notes • Note-Taking System for Learning • T-List • Graphically-Organized Notes

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOsVKWeyAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7WM_fmR1k

8. Name: Date: Class Period: Cornell Notes • Write your name, date, class, and period in the upper right hand corner (see above). • Write the topic of the notes (ex. WWII, Cells, Nouns, etc.) on the top line (see above).

9. Page setup Draw a horizontal line about five lines up from the bottom. Name: Date: Class Period: Cornell Notes • Draw a vertical line down the page about one third of distance from the left.

10. Main Idea Key Question (after notes are completed) Key words & ideas Important dates/people/places Repeated/Stressed Info Ideas/brainstorming written on board / overhead projector Info from textbook/stories Diagrams & Pictures Formulas Name: Date: Class Period: Cornell Notes

11. Student Example

12. Helpful Hints for Straight A Notes Abbrev. , Paraphrase. Use symbols (arrows, circles, underlining) or highlighting to emphasize important ideas and relationships. Name: Date: Class Period: Cornell Notes • Skip lines between ideas. • Within 24 hours, review notes and develop study questions on the left side. • Be aware of teacher clues.*

13. How do I know if what the teacher says is important? Repetition or stressed inflection Voice gets louder/softer or faster/slower Writing on the board or overhead “This will be on the test.” Gestures (hand/arm movements) “This is important.” Name: Date: Class Period: Teacher Clues

14. Name: Date: Class Period: So, what about the bottom of my paper? What belongs in the bottom space? • Summary - review notes as soon as possible after class and write a summary in your own words about the main ideas. Are there any gaps in your understanding? (see next point) • Questions for the teacher. • Doodles - down here they won’t get in the way of the important stuff. Summary, questions, doodles

15. Name: Date: Class Period: Abbreviation ExerciseAbbreviate the following linesso they still make sense • Hippocrates, a Greek who is considered to be the Father of Medicine, was born on the island of Cos in 460 B.C. • George Washington was not, in a sense, America’s first president. • Mark Twain fell in love with Olivia Langdon. They married in 1870 and moved to Hartford, Connecticut.

16. Hippocrates (Gr.) Father of Med b.Cos 460B.C G. Wash. Not Am’s 1st Pres.? Twain - Olivia Langdon m. 1870 to Hart Conn Name Date Class Period Abbreviation ExercisePossible Answers

17. Note-Taking System for Learning

18. Title I. Main Topic A. Important Subtopic 1. Detail a. Sub-detail b. Sub-detail c. Sub-detail 2. Detail 3. Detail a. Sub-detail b. Sub-detail B. Important Subtopic Main Topic A. Important Subtopic 1. Detail a. Sub-detail b. Sub-detail c. Sub-detail 2. Detail Recording • Write down the main ideas and supporting details in outline form. • Leave space between the main ideas as needed for future notes and additions.

19. Organizing • Read through notes. • In the left margin, create labels in the left margin that identify the main topics included in the notes. • Highlight and/or label according to categories you create or use one of these:

20. Organizing • Highlight and/or label according to categories you create or use one of these:

21. Organizing 4) Write any questions you may have and/or things you would like to know more about in the margin as well. 5) Add to your notes information from other sources (text, other books, primary sources, lecture, etc.) about the same topic.

22. Studying • Use your notes to study. • The labels and information in the left margin provide a summary and overview of your notes.

23. T-List Main Ideas Details

24. Record the corresponding details that support the main ideas. Include vocabulary words and explanations for those unfamiliar words to you. Write in your own words – do not copy. Organize the main ideas and details of the SS lesson on the chart below: T-List Main Ideas Details • List main ideas or key concepts. • Use only two or three words.

25. Graphically-Organized Notes

26. Timeline (Chronology)

27. Sequencing

28. Event/Characteristics (Descriptions)

29. Cause and Effect

30. History Frame

31. Buckets

32. Venn Diagram (Compare and Contrast)

33. Central Idea & Supporting Details

34. Claim, Evidence & Reasoning Stool

35. Historical Character Map

36. Foldables

37. Technology Tools