Objectives:

The student will be able to:

• listen to and evaluate oral communications for delivery, purpose, ideas, content, point of view, and value.

• solve problems by identifying, synthesizing and evaluating data.

• apply active reading strategies to focus on key concepts in texts.

• take organized notes from lecture, text and various media.

• practice effective test-taking strategies for a variety of assessments.

• select the appropriate during reading strategies to aid comprehension

• evaluate the methods of literary techniques utilized by the author of a text.

• read text to comprehend,  interpret and evaluate for a specific purpose.  (i.e. tone, mood, viewpoint, cultural, inferences, etc.)

Purpose: 

Reading is too often a passive experience for many students.  Students sit down with a book, pass their eyes over the words and say that they have completed the reading assignment.  This is not the true meaning of reading a book.  These three types of note-taking methods are meant to assist students in becoming active readers.

Dialectical Notes for Novels (pdf file)

Lecture Note-taking for Cornell Method & Mind Mapping (pdf file)

Cornell Method blank note page (pdf file)

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Literature with Shriner
Cimarron-Memorial High School
2301 N. Tenaya
Las Vegas, NV 89128
702.799.4400

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