TEXTBOOK
AND LECTURE NOTES
A dialogue notebook is useful for taking notes from the textbook and
lectures.
Make two columns on a notebook page. In the left
column jot down notes (as suggested below) from the reading and lectures.
Use the right hand column for your own comments on the notes (as described
below. It's called a dialogue notebook because it encourages you to start
a dialogue with the materials you are noting. For each textbook chapter and lecture topic, use your notebook's left column for the
following:
1. Topic
2. The thesis or most important organizing idea about the topic.
3. Several key events you consider are most significant for illustrating the topic and
thesis.
4. Key names, words, concepts.
5. Note any primary sources from SB or the Web that may be relevant to the textbook
chapter or lecture.
The right column should have your comments on why you chose the events as well as
questions or ideas of your own about the material. WRITE ONE OR TWO SENTENCES ON
WHAT THIS CHAPTER OR LECTURE ADDS TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE MODERN WORLD WAS
SHAPED.
