How to take notes from your textbook I

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How to take notes from your textbook I

• World History
• Patterns of Interactions
• Fall 2002 - Mills

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Why take notes?

• Summarize the main points from the reading
• Organize the reading into smaller parts
• To help you understand the information you read
• So you can use them on the quizzes!

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Various styles of note taking

• Outline style
• Cornell Notes
• SQ3R
• Q Notes
• Your own style

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Outline Note taking

• Use Roman numerals, letters, and numbers to
  organize the information
• Begin your notes with the chapter title and main
  idea
• Use section headings and subheadings to organize
  and title your notes
• Easiest way to break down a section from the
  textbook
• Our example Ch. 36, section 1 (pp.938-944)

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Title of Chapter Science and Technology Shape
Human Outlook

• MAIN IDEA Advances in technology after WWII led
  to global interdependence and improved quality of
  life
• WHY IT MATTERS NOW the lives of all people
  around the world are affected by advances in
  science and technology

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Use section headings and subheadings to organize
and title your notes

• I. Probing the Solar System and Beyond
  
• A. Space Race becomes cooperative
• B. Exploring the Universe
• C. Space goes commercial
• II. Expanding Global Communications
• A. smaller, more powerful computers
• B. Communications networks
• III. Transforming Human Life
• A. Health and Medicine
• B. The Green Revolution

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Add detail to each section

• I. Probing the Solar System and Beyond the
  space race was a competition between the US and
  the USSR to reach the moon and beyond took place
  from the 1950s to 1970s
• A. Space Race becomes cooperative
• 1. US and USSR sign agreement in 1972 to dock
  Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft
• 2. Apollo-Soyuz dock on July 17, 1975
• 3. Soviets first to send an international crew
  into space Mir and International Space Station
  developed

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Add detail to each section

• B. Exploring the Universe
• 1. unmanned space probes explore Jupiter,
  Saturn, Mars, Uranus and Neptune
• 2. Hubble Space telescope developed by NASA and
  ESA (European Space Agency) and launched in 1990
  to observe objects in remote areas of the
  universe
• C. Space goes commercial
• 1. private companies have become more involved
  in space
• 2. most common commercial use of space is the
  field of communication

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Add detail to each section

• II. Expanding Global Communications satellite
  communication has aided worldwide communication
  since the 1960s (result global village). This
  has been made possible by the miniaturization of
  the computer. Ex funeral of Princess Diana (2
  billion viewers worldwide, 1/3rd pop.)
• A. Smaller, more powerful computers
• Vacuum tubes replaced by silicon chips much
  smaller and more powerful
• Silicon chips now used in other consumer goods
  (insert examples here)
• Personal computers essential in most offices,
  millions in homes
• B. Communications networks
• Internet voluntary linkage of computer networks
  around the world began in the late 1960s for
  scientists to exchange research information
• From 1993 to 1996, internet use increased x7
• Internet now used for business (technology
  changing how and where people worked)

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Your homework

• Finish outline-style notes for chapter 36,
  section 1 (pp. 941-944)
• Quiz tomorrow on this section
• Dont forget You can use your notes on the quiz!