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							Note Taking Skills
         Lesson Objectives

• To learn how to improve your note taking
  skills
               Lesson Plan
• Introduction – why is it important to be able to
  take notes effectively? (5mins)
• Activity 1 – how do you currently take notes and
  how useful are they? Fill in worksheets (5mins)
• Activity 2 – how can you improve your note
  taking skills? Do and Don’t Sheets (5mins)
• Activity 3 – note taking activity (10mins)
• Plenary – discussion of advantages and
  disadvantages of the different note taking
  methods
• ‘Notes are not about what you already
  know, but what you do not already know
  and may not remember unless you write it
  down.’
                                          Activity 1
•   How good are you at making notes?


•   Are your notes:

•   1 (awful)                                                                      10 (excellent)


•   hard to read ………………………………………………………..easy to read


•   too detailed to work from …………………………………………brief to the point


•   poorly organised……………………………………………………well organised


•   no system…………………………………………………………...pages numbered / labelled


•   difficult to work from ……..……………………………………....easy to learn from


•   no abbreviations…………………………………………………….well abbreviated


•   not easy to see important points……………………………important ideas stand out clearly


•   chunks copied from books / teacher’s notes / websites…………….in my own words
               Activity 2
How can you improve your note taking
 skills?
DISCUSS
Do
•Think before you write
•Keep notes brief
•Keep notes organised with numbered pages and dates
•Use your own words
•Leave a wide margin and spaces to add more later
•Note key words and main ideas
•Write phrases not full sentences
•Use abbreviations
•Use headings
•Number points
•Make the page memorable with colour, pictures or highlighting
•Link up points with arrows, dotted lines, numbers or boxes
•Write quotations in a different colour
•Have ‘post it’ notes with you for ‘planning’- style notes as you can shift these around
Don’t
•Copy chunks and phrases
•Write more notes than you can use again
•Write notes out to make them neater
Ten ways of improving your note making skills
1. Think before you write: what is the main point of the paragraph /
    statement…etc
2. Note down sources of info exactly – so if it’s from a written or internet
    text, you can find it again easily.
3. Highlight key words and phrases as you are writing (or afterwards if it’s
    easier)
4. Use abbreviations, headings, numbers – anything to help you make
    your notes brief
5. Keep notes organised: date them, write down their source, file them
    logically
6. Use your own words – no chance of plagiarising
7. Write phrases, not sentences
8. Leave lots of space / margins – you can add to them when revising /
    using them for an assignment
9. Aim to have just one set of notes: making endless copies / shortening
    will only leave you confused when it comes to using them / revising them
10. Last, but not least – number the pages of your notes.
                  Activity 3
Split class into 4 group. Hand out the text on gun
    crime and ask them to make notes, assigning
    each group one of the methods below.

Different note taking methods (description on
    handout)
1. Academic method
2. SQ3R
3. The Cornell Method
4. The sentence method
A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the US border yesterdaY left
21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said.
The fire fight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20km) from the Arizona border, near
the city of Nogales, that is considered a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.
The Sonora state attorney general's office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at
the scene of the shootings, six of whom had been wounded in the confrontation. Eight vehicles and seven
weapons were also seized.
All of the victims were believed to be members of the gangs.
The shootings occurred near a dirt road between the hamlets of Tubutama and Saric, in an area often used
by traffickers.
Gangs often fight for control of trafficking routes and sometimes steal "shipments" of undocumented
migrants from each other, but seldom have they staged such mass gun battles.
Gang violence near the Arizona border has led to calls from officials in the US state for greater control of
the border and is one reason given for a controversial law passed in April requiring Arizona police to ask
people about their immigration status in certain situations.
In another part of the US border, gunmen killed an assistant attorney general for Chihuahua state and one
of her bodyguards.
After being chased by armed assailants through the darkened streets of Ciudad Juárez, the vehicle
carrying Sandra Salas Garcia and two bodyguards was riddled with bullets on Wednesday night.
Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, said the second bodyguard was seriously
wounded.
Salas was responsible for evaluating the work of prosecutors and special investigations units in
Chihuahua.
Drug violence has killed more than 4,300 people in recent years in Ciudad Juárez, which borders El Paso,
Texas.
More than 23,000 people have been killed by drug violence since late 2006, when President Felipe
Calderón began deploying thousands of troops and federal police to drug hot spots.
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