Note-Taking

Qualities of good note-taking are asking questions about the text if you don't understand it. Making comments and connections to the text. Also taking out the main ideas and supporting details from the reading. 2. Why do you think good note-making is widely considered a standard for success in AP classes? I think its a standard for an AP class because the text thats read in an AP class is a lot more difficult than a textbook from an Honors or CP class.
 * Acitivity 3.1: Opener: **
 * 1) What are the qualities of good note-making?

//Strategies of Good Note-Taking //
 * Activity 3.2: Note-Taking Essesntials **


 * Review your previewing notes and use those thoughts to guide you
 * Break reading into smaller, manageable chunks, maybe based on the headings in the text
 * Write notes only after reading through a portion of the reading (a "chunk")
 * Paraphrase the most important information from each chunk
 * Add the most important details
 * Make connections to other history that you have learned or current events
 * Keep track of important vocabulary
 * Ask questions and try to answer them
 * Write the main ideas, in your own words, from each subtopic and one for the overall topic of the reading


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 3.3: Making Notes for Independant Understanding **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think that the model had showed me a better way to take notes for when I am reading any text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah they did becaus they where simple instructions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah because the text would be analyzed so that I would understand it more. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main idea and supporting details. I always summarize the supporting details into my amin idea and make one summary.
 * Activity 3.4: Reflectiosn of Note-Taking**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think of our note-making model?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did our instructions help you better understand how to make notes?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you feel that after using these note-making strategies you have a better understanding of the text than if you had just read it? Why or why not?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which of the Note-Making Essentials did you struggle the most with? Why?