Note-Making

**Activity #3.1: Opener:**
Qualities of good note-making are including only the most important information and creating main ideas, supporting details, and summaries so when you go back to it you don't have much to go through to know what you read. Good note-making is widely considered a standard for success in AP classes because there is a lot of reading involved and if you don't make good notes then when you need to study it then you're going to have to read it all again. It also helps you understand all the reading in a couple sentences in simple terms.
 * What are the qualities of good note-making? **
 * Why do you think good note-making is widely considered a standard for success in AP classes? **


 * Activity # 3.2: Note-making Essentials: **
 * 1) Review your previewing notes and use those thoughts to guide you
 * 2) Break reading into smaller, manageable chunks, maybe based on the headings in the text
 * 3) Write notes only after reading through a portion of the reading (a "chunk")
 * 4) Paraphrase the most important information from each chunk
 * 5) Add the most important details
 * 6) Make connections to other history that you have learned or current events
 * 7) Keep track of important vocabulary
 * 8) Ask questions and try to answer them
 * 9) Write the main ideas, in your own words, from each subtopic and one for the overall topic of the reading

power even which we do not know of. It just comes to them and we can even try to obtain some of these qualities so that can do common good with it and gladly go over this "spell" of these x-factors.
 * Activity # 3.3: Making Notes for Independent Understanding **
 * CCQ's || Topic: X-factors of Success ||
 * -People who have these x-factors know what they hold over us. They have this

-Charisma is always talked about everywhere and it seems like you have to have a lot to be charismatic. In a Korean group called SHINee there is a guy named Minho and he is known as "Flaming Charisma". He is amazing and he's an inspiration to many people by having the self-confidence he had to become who he is now.

-Chutzpah is like not caring about the world says around you and doing what you want to do. You believe in what you want to and not change your thoughts about it because someone else thinks something different. No one can influence you to think something or do something when you've already decided.

-Joie De Vivre is something you're born with, so does that mean it is one of the qualities you can't increase in by some factor?

-Do people with joie de vivre feel embarrassed? Are they really that enthusiastic that it's strange?

-Why are the names of these x-factors so strange? I only know charisma and grace while chutzpah and joie de vivre are words I've never heard of. Are they from a different language? || __Chunk 1: The X-factors of Success__ MI. There are four x-factors in which people can increase in by some factor to appreciate their rare charms. ++ The four x-factors are charisma, chutzpah, joie de vivre and grace. ++ They do not guarentee success, but they're often seen in people who are successful around us __Chunk 2: Charisma: The Spellbinders__ MI. Charisma is a kind of "magic" in people for inspire devotion. ++ It consists of components such as expressivity, sensitivity, control, eloquence, vision and self-confidence. ++ Leaders have charisma __Chunk 3: Chutzpah: Oh, The Nerve__ MI. Chutzpah is having the insight on an idea and knowing it's important and knowing that you need to pursue it even when the world doesn't agree. ++ They take advantage of social knowledge. ++ Risk-seekers have chutzpah.It is a behavior that crosses a social norm, not to get away with something, but to purposefully challenge it. __Chunk 4: Joie De Vivre: The Day-Seizers__ MI. Joie De Vivre is when you have your emotions out on the line and you are extremely enthusiastic. ++ Passionate exuberance is what you have and you're born with it. ++ People think they haven't seen the complexity of life with their enthusiasm, but they have. __Chunk 5: Grace: Fierce Benevolence__ MI. Grace is being passionate and rarely stir up the annoyance or suspicion we may feel toward bold or highly excitable people. ++ Having characteristics like wisdom, benevolence and being compassionate ++ Quietest x-factor ||

I think it's pretty helpful once you understand it because at first I didn't get the set up, but the layout seemed helpful. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, because it helped me understand how to section things and read or skim everything before actually writing any notes at all. It is important to take only the most important information so that you don't have a whole bunch of uneccessary information. ====Yes, because it's way easier for me to understand what I've read without having to read the reading again, but instead to go back to my notes and know exactly what I'm talking about. It is in simpiler terms too so I can look at it and understand it without having to look up words. ==== ====**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which of the Note-Making Essentials did you struggle the most with? Why? **==== ====I struggled with what I usually struggle with, looking up words. When I don't understand a word I usually just use context clues to figure it out and it was hard for me to actually take the time to go and look them up. Since when I'm focused in the reading I don't like getting off it and doing something else even if it's going to help me understand something better. I have to try to improve on that because I think it'll really help me like it did this time when I did it.====
 * Activity # 3.4: Reflections on Note-Making:**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think of our note-making model? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did our instructions help you better understand how to make notes? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you feel that after using these note-making strategies you have a better understanding of the text than if you had just read it? Why or why not? **