Reading Strategy: Simple Outlining in World History

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Reading Strategy Simple Outlining in World
History
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Making Outlines

• There is so much information included in
  textbooks.
• Outlining teaches you to arrange information in
  an organized way and quickly identify the main
  ideas and supporting details of a reading
  selection.

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Directions Simple Outlining

1. The lesson title will be the title of your
   outline.
2. The headings/topics of a lesson are the headings
   of your outline and are designated by Roman
   numerals.
3. The subheadings/subtopics of a lesson are the
   main ideas and are designated by capital letters.
4. The supporting details within main ideas are
   designated by Arabic numerals.
5. The subdetails within the supporting details are
   designated by lower case letters.

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Please note

1. There are always two or more headings supporting
   each subdivision
2. Each subdivision is indented to show their
   relative importance
3. You can outline in phrases and short sentences
4. Sometimes minor headings dont need to be more
   than one word
5. You can find many excellent examples of outlines
   in encyclopedias

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Sample Outline

• TITLE
• ?. Heading/Topic
• A. Main idea
• 1. Supporting detail
• 2. Supporting detail
• a. subdetail
• b. subdetail

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Sample Outline

• TITLE
• ?. Heading/Topic
• A. Main idea
• 1. Supporting detail
• 2. Supporting detail
• a. subdetail
• b. subdetail
• B. Main idea
• 1. Supporting detail
• 2. Supporting detail
• a. subdetail
• b. subdetail

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The Geography of Greece Chapter 9 - Lesson 1

• ?. A Mountainous Land
• A. Greece is a rugged mountainous land
  with deep valleys and rugged highlands
• 1. No great rivers to overflow and
  make the
• soil good for farming
• 2. Does not have much good farmland
• B. Mountains divide the people
• 1. Not a unified country
• 2. Main part on the southern tip of
  the Balkan
• Peninsula
• a. also lived on islands in
  the Aegean Sea
• b. Aegean Sea separates
  Greece from the
• western edge of Asia known as
  Asia Minor

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• ?. A Land Tied to the Sea

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• ?. Independent Communities

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• ?V. Two Early Greek Civilizations