****PLEASE NOTE: When I assign you questions that come attached to a text, I expect your answers to be supported by the text. You will not receive full credit for answers that are not based in textual evidence/logic.
Below is one way of structuring your notes for better organization and clarity:
1. First ask yourself: What do I need to know?
- Accompanying questions to the text will often provide specific information about what you need to know/what you need to find out.
- If there are no specific questions, but rather a prompt or directions for a guided response, then you should try to answer: how will I prove my opinion?
- Bottom line: read questions/guidelines/directions before you begin to read the text.
2. What do I know/how do I know what I know?
- As you read, underline or make note of any passage that may provide an answer to the questions in the previous step.
- Summarize these ideas in your own language
- You must support any conclusions with evidence/logic from the text.
3. What questions do I have?
- Is there anything unclear in the text? Are you missing certain key information necessary to draw conclusions? Is there something you disagree with? Write it down for further investigation.
- Developing questions about the text helps us think critically about what is being written, and helps us identify gaps in our own knowledge.
4. How will I find my answers?
- Questions are an important part of beginning to understand a text, but the pursuit of answers will actually help us deepen our learning and give us a clearer idea of what we're dealing with.
- Finding answers may involve re-reading the text to check for details you might have missed.
- Finding answers may also involve taking matters into your own hands: asking a knowledgeable source, doing research, thinking deeper about the question, etc.
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