NEST Day 5: Focused Notes

Writing the Summary

Review Costa’s Questions Finish Writing Questions Start Writing Summary

Today’s Goals

Focused Notes are MANY things… A way to collect information in class A way to interact with the information you

learned (today’s focus) A way to collaborate with peers A tool to help you study information

What are Focused Notes?

Last time we… Introduced Costa’s Levels of Inquiry Practiced Levels of Inquiry Added questions to your notes

Please take out… Your Focused Notes PINK handout Focused Notes about School Policies

Let’s Review

Use your PINK handout page and turn to “Costa’s Levels of Inquiry”

Today you will be reviewing the different levels of inquiry questions that you can use in your Cornell Notes

Writing Questions

The type of question you write, will largely depend on the type of information you’d like to discover.

Let’s briefly review them…

Writing Questions

Level 1- “knowledge gathering” questions Level 2- “processing” questions Level 3- “application” questions

Do you remember how to ask the different levels of questioning…

Writing Questions

Question Levels

Remember the Penguins?

Let’s APPLY our new knowledge..

Take time to review your notes and check your questions– finish writing the questions for your notes

Writing Questions

FIRST, we took notes. SECOND, we created questions by looking at

our notes.

And finally…

Let’s Continue…

Writing a summary is the THIRD way you are able to review your notes

The summary is located at the end of your notes

The purpose of a summary is to restate the main ideas in your notes

Writing a Summary

1. Introductory Sentences (2 sentences) Topic sentence + 1 other intro sentence for the

reader

2. Supporting Details (# is determined by your notes)

Provides details from the notes that answer the EQ

3. Closing Sentences (1 sentence) Restates the topic of your summary in a new

way and provides a closing thought

Parts of a Summary

Introductory Sentences (2)

Detail(elaborate/

explain)

Detail(elaborate/

explain)

Detail(elaborate/

explain)

Closing Sentence (1)

Parts of a Summary

Let’s start with your introductory sentences…1. Focus on RESTATING the essential question into

a statement Briefly review the essential question (what is it?)

EQ: What are important school wide policies and procedures and how do they affect me as a student?

Writing a Summary

TIP: Take the essential question and turn it into a statement (you may include main ideas from your notes)

EQ: What are important school wide policies and procedures and how do they affect me as a student?

Writing a Summary

Essential Question

• What are important schoolwide policies and procedures and how do they affect me as a student?

Turned into a statement

• There are several important schoolwide policies and procedures that affect students.

Writing a Summary: INTRODUCTORY SENTENCE

By turning the essential question into a statement, you have now created your first introductory sentence.

LET’S WRITE IT… Draw a horizontal line across your paper at the

end of your notes Under this line, Write your summary topic

sentence

Writing a Summary: INTRODUCTORY SENTENCE

1st Introductory Sentence =

There are several important schoolwide policies and procedures that affect students.

Writing a Summary: INTRODUCTORY SENTENCE

Following your first introductory sentence, provide another sentence that helps provide the reader more focus about the topic. Introduce the importance of the topic Explain the context of the topic Provide a rationale for further reading

Now let’s add another one…

There are several important school wide policies and procedures that affect students.Some choices for the 2nd introductory sentence are… # 1: These policies are important for keeping helping

keep our school safe and focused on learning. # 2: Such policies are created for students to ensure

that they understand expectations for their behavior and the consequences of their actions.

#3: Policies regarding (list some main ideas in notes) are shared to make sure that students understand these guidelines.

Example

Now add your 2nd introductory sentence similar to the samples on the previous page.

FINISHING the Introductory Sentences

TODAY we… Reviewed Costa’s Questions Finished Writing Questions for our notes

2nd way to review the information Started Writing Summary

Used the essential question for introductory sentence

NEXT you will be… Write supporting details

Today’s Goals