Text Notes Methods
Note Card Method
Using Index Cards 4”x6” or larger include the following
for Vocabulary Words, Bolded Words, Specific Paragraph
Titles
Front – Name of the Term or Idea
Back – (Lined Side) Include the following
Who:
What:
When:
Significance: (Why is this important to World History?)
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Hunters and Gatherers
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100,000 – 5,000 B.C.E.
People who search who move and
search for food (nomads)
Early man before agriculture
Use simple stone tools
Significance - More Gender Equality
than settled societies etc…
Text Notes Methods
Questioning Method
Use the Chapter Paragraph Headings to answer questions.
Use an outline method to answer questions.
- Turn paragraph header into question. Write Question down.
Answer question with following text
o Use Thin and Thick Questions to pull out main idea
information.
 Thin – Adding the word “what was”
 Thick – Adding the word “how” or “why”
- Use paragraphs as an estimation of how many bullets or answers
to your questions.
Chapter 1 From Human Prehistory to Civilization
I.
II.
What was human life like in the era of hunters and gatherers?
(Thin Question)
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a. How did the early Paleolithic Period compare with the Late
Paleolithic Period?
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What was the Neolithic Revolution
Text Notes Methods
T-Chart Method
Use this method for analyzing changes and continuities
to similarities and differences.
Part I: From Hunting and Gathering to Civilization – 2.5 Million – 1000 B.C.E. –
Origins Pages 1 - 7
III.
CHANGES
CONTINUITIES
(What Stayed the Same)
Other key points/vocabulary (what didn’t fit within changes