Note Making
An excellent skill to learn!
Helps you pay attention in class and remember
what you have learned. It also provides a place
to easily find information you want to
remember.
Your notes are a letter that you write to
yourself to remind you what you need to
know. Be sure to read the letter a
couple of times to be sure you know
your stuff.
NOTEBOOK ASSIGNMENT 1
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Write the TRANSLATION TIPS on
notebook paper and put at front of your
notebook! (Posted on wall and also available
on my webpage).
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We will refer to the Translation Tips often,
and everyone needs their own copy to use
when translating passages!
What to Include in Notes
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Summarize (in my own words) anything I didn’t already know
when we started the chapter (new information)
A definition of a word or phrase (COPY definitions directly
from your book) or a rule.
Items the teacher or the book emphasize
Examples that help explain the information we are learning
Explanations
For a new language, list of vocabulary words, along with
meanings and related English words.
Information you will need at a later time, for example, to
create a project, including due dates
Interactive notebook pages – interact with material in some
manner.
Sample Paragraph
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English is a combination of Roman Latin, Ancient
Greek, German, Anglo-Saxon, Spanish, American
Indian and other tongues. Even with all of these
influences, Latin, the language of ancient Rome, is
still the most important source of English words. We
will learn about our own English by learning about
the Latin remnants inside it. Remnants? Yes. Many
of our words are made of two or three fragments of
Latin. We sometimes call these pieces prefixes,
suffixes, root words (or stems). To make things easy,
we call them all stems.
With your group, make a list of things you would
need to include in your notes. VOICE LEVEL 2!
Notes I Would Take
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English is made from a mix of many languages
Latin is the most important source of English
words
Parts of Latin words are inside English
They show up as stems (prefix, suffix, stem or
root word)
Sample Paragraph Two
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The stem sub, for example, is part of many English
words. Sub means under and we find it in words like
submarine, submerge, and subtract. We also find it in
harder words, like subterranean, subordinate,
substantial, and even subterfuge. Even though words
like these seem hard at first, they are not as hard as
they look – if you know the Latin stems. Most of
what you call ‘big words’ are really not so difficult
after all if you know the Latin stems that are in them.
Each time you learn one easy stem, you have learned
an important part of dozens of English words; so
learning Latin stems is power-learning, because you
only have to study one small thing in order to learn a
part of many things.
Notes I would take
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Learning Latin is power learning. When you
learn the stems, you will know lots of English
words, without having to learn them
separately.
Example, sub means under. Knowing this
helps me understand many English words that
use sub (submarine – underwater, subterranean
– under the land, subordinate – under the
order)
Summarizing Information
Readingquest.org
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http://readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html
How to summarize!
Column Notes and sample
Sum It Up – good strategy to use while
learning how to summarize