Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Civil War Note Taking Assignment

This is the Cornell Method of Note Taking.
You need to fill it out to get credit for the assignment.

Thus, here are the steps.

1. List what you know about the causes of the Civil War. Not writing anything = no credit. Some people just don't know and that's why we do this assignment.
2. List 10 questions that you want your notes to answer. Not writing 10=partial credit. I asked you to think about this. Use your "W" words (Who, What, Where, When, Why, hoW). You're in college now. Challenge yourself and impress me. It's all about the hoops.
3. Finish the out of class sections at home after finishing the in class note taking section.
4. Finally, finish the whole thing with a TYPED (if it's not typed, it's not done - really) journal on how your notes are different from the ones that you used to take (such as the ones in your National Parks Outline - I'm looking for focus in that for points).

If you need it, you can look at the following links:

Cal Poly Note Taking Systems - this will help with this assignment and the first steps of the research paper.
Bloom's Taxonomy - Higher Level Thinking Questioning, which will help with the essay completion and my goals for you to achieve. See analysis, synthesis, evaluation.

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