Cornell NoteTaking

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• Cornell note taking stimulates critical thinking
  skills.
• Note taking helps students remember what is said
  in class.
• A good set of notes can help students work on
  assignments and prepare for tests outside of the
  classroom.

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• Good notes allow students to help each other
  problem solve.
• Good Notes help students organize and process
  data and information.
• Helps student recall by
  getting them to process
  their notes at least 3 times.

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• Meant to be easily used
  as a test study guide.

• Writing is a great tool for learning!

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Document
Name Date Class Period

• 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).

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Divide the Paper
Name Date Class Period

• Page setup

• Draw a horizontal line about five lines up from
  the bottom.

• Draw a vertical line down the page about one
  third of distance from the left.

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Write Notes
Name Date Class Period

• In the large, right hand column, take notes like
  you normally would.
• You may use any style of note-taking you wish
• outline format,
• narrative format,
• symbols,
• short hand, etc.

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Teacher Clues
Name Date Class Period

• 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.

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Cornell Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Helpful Hints for Straight A Notes

• Abbrev. , Paraphrase.
• Use symbols (arrows, circles, underlining) or
  highlighting to emphasize important ideas and
  relationships.

• Skip lines between ideas.
• Within 24 hours, review notes and develop study
  questions on the left side.
• Be aware of teacher clues.

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Review and Clarify

• After class, compare notes with a partner.
• Talk about what you wrote and why.
  Look for gaps missed info.
• Both partners should feel free to add to their
  notes.

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Review and Clarify
Name Date Class Period

• With your partner(s), create questions in the
  left hand column.

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Review and Clarify
Name Date Class Period

• Your questions should reflect
• Info you dont understand or want to discuss with
  your teacher/tutor.
• Info you think would go good on an essay test.
• Gaps in your notes.

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So, what about the bottom of my paper?
Name Date Class Period

• 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 wont get in the way of
  the important stuff.

What belongs in the bottom space?
Summary, questions, doodles
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Cornell Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Key words ideas
• Important dates/people/places
• Repeated/Stressed Info
• Ideas/brainstorming written on board / overhead
  projector
• Info from textbook/stories
• Diagrams Pictures
• Formulas

• Main Idea
• Key Question (after notes are completed)

Summary of your notes in your own words
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Study Your Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Spend most of your time studying the ideas in
  the left column and the summary at the bottom.

• Re-read your notes in the right column

• These are the most important ideas and will
  probably include most of the information that you
  will be tested on.

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SAMPLEFor English
Name Date Class Period

• What is a noun?
• What are the two types of nouns?
• What is a compound noun?

• Noun - person, place, thing, idea
• Types - concrete abstract
• concrete - taste, touch, smell, see
• abstract - ideas (emotions)
• compound - two or more words combined to create
  one thing ex fireman, bedroom

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Abbreviation ExerciseAbbreviate the following
lines so 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, Americas
  first president.
• Mark Twain fell in love with Olivia Langdon.
  They married in 1870 and moved to Hartford,
  Connecticut.

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Abbreviation ExerciseAnswers
Name Date Class Period

• Hippocrates (Gr.) Father of Med b.Cos 460B.C
• G. Wash. Not Ams 1st Pres.?
• Twain - Olivia Langdon m. 1870
  to Hart Conn

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(Diagram copied during lecture)
(Questions about it )

• How do the ticks find the cattle?
• Why dont the ticks usually kill their host?
• How could tick infestations in cattle impact
  humans?

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