Taking Cornell Notes from a Text

AVID Standard 2.3: Refine note taking skills in the Cornell Note Taking Method

Cornell Note Format

Write Your Heading

John DoeGovernmentPeriod 18/22/11

Topic

• Chapter titles or sections make great topics.

• Write the topic at the top of your notes.

Topic

John DoeGovernmentPeriod 18/22/11

Nominating Candidates

Questions

• Look for any headings. Headings or subheadings become questions. Write questions on the left hand side of your notes.

• If there are no headings, read through each paragraph and decide what the main idea is. Turn the main idea into a question.

• Write details in the “notes” section on the right hand side.

Questions

John DoeGovernmentPeriod 18/22/11

Nominating Candidates

How are candidates selected?

Notes

• On the right hand side, write details that answer the question in the “notes” section.

Notes

John DoeGovernmentPeriod 18/22/11

Nominating Candidates

How are candidates selected?

Caucuses – private meetingsof party leaders

Nominating Conventions – meeting of party to choose candidate for office

Summary

• Turn the topic of your notes into a topic sentence.

• Choose the most important main ideas from your notes and turn them into sentences.

Summary

John DoeGovernmentPeriod 18/22/11

Nominating Candidates

How are candidates selected?

Caucuses – private meetingsof party leaders

Nominating Conventions – meeting of party to choose candidate for office

SummaryNominating candidates occurs in four different ways. The first way is caucusing. The second is by nominating conventions…

Practice

• What would your questions be?

• What main ideas would you write on the right side of your notes?

Practice

• What would your topic be?

• What would your questions be?

• What main ideas would you write on the right side of your notes?

Practice

On Your Own