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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