What's Black, White, and Read All Over?
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What Have You Used a Composition Book for?
JournalingWriting with Peer
ReviewsNotes for a
Project or Presentation
Labs
Composition Books vs. Spiral Notebooks
COMPOSITION BOOK
Pages not easily torn out
Everything stays in chronological order
Binding keeps all pages in order and place.
Pages easily torn out
Not always kept in chronological order
Spiral bindings have a tendency to fall apart over the course of the school year.
SPIRAL NOTEBOOK
Benefits of Using Composition Books in Your Classroom
Smaller More durableNot the correct paper size = no or less papers missing
Easily keep notes in chronological order
A Brief History of Cornell Notes
Developed in 1949 at Cornell University by Walter Pauk
Designed/Created in response to frustration over student test scores
Created to be easily used as a test study guide
*Cornell notes have been adopted by most major law schools as the preferred note taking method.
Why Cornell Notes ROCK!
1. Keeps your notes organized, so you can revise and review them later.
2. Allows you to find important information easier.
3. Focuses on important concepts like vocabulary words, dates and people, theories, processes,
4. etc. 5. Provides an efficient method of taking
notes during any kind of lecture. 6. Allows for an easier way to study that can
lead to higher grades in college. 7. Allows you to review for tests in an
organized way.
Using Cornell Notes to Study
1. Cover up right side page. Read the questions. Recite information as fully as possible. Uncover the sheet and verify information frequently (single, most powerful learning tool!)
2. Reflect on the organization of all the lectures. Overlap notes and read recall cues. Study the progression of the information.
3. Review by reciting, reflecting, and reading insights.
5 Steps of the Cornell System of Notes
1. Record lectures in the main column2. Refine lectures with questions,
corrections, underlining, recall cues, graphics and pictures
3. Recite by covering main column and expanding on recall cues-then verify
4. Reflect on organization by studying all cues
5. Review by repeating recite and reflect steps