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Note Taking:

General Advice:

·         Note Taking Advice

 

Document Analysis Tools:

·         AP Parts

·         Soapstone

 

Note Taking Templates and Models*:

·         Target Notes (for any reading assignment – focus on specific events and their meanings)

·         Episodic Notes (for any reading assignment – visual and written notes)

·         VIPER Notes  (for textbook reading assignments)

·         Outline Notes (use for any reading assignment)

·         Event Notes (use for a historical event)

·         Web Notes (use for any reading assignment)

·         SQ4R Notes (use for any assignment - Survey, Question, Read, Review, Recite, Reflect)

·         4 Square Perspective (use to look at an event or concept from multiple points of view)

·         Inference: Text & Subtext (use for close readings of short texts)

·         Key Concepts (use for gathering the big picture)

·         Pyramid Notes (use to identify main idea, supporting details, and to elaborate on details)

·         Q-Notes (use to write section questions and then answer them)

·         Character Bookmarks (use to mark sections in novels and plays about specific characters)

 

*Many of these note taking guides or templates were found online.  Copyright information found on individual examples.