Details/MM

Reading for Details - Mindmapping

How do you do it?

Materials from Berkin, MAKING AMERICA 2/E, 2ed 1999 30310
displayed with special permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
All rights reserved.

Step 1: Write the title of the section in the middle of the paper
and draw a rectangle around it.

Step 2: Read the main idea you've written next to the first
paragraph. Condense it as much as you can and write it in
a circle to the upper right of the rectange (about 1:00).

Step 3: Begin reading the paragraph. As soon as you identify an
important point or detail, draw a line from the circle in the opposite
direction of the rectangle and write it down as concisely as concisely
as possible.

Step 4: Read the sentence again and add the details from it that
relate to the point you've written down.

Step 5: Read the sentence again and add the additional details that
relate to the point you've written.

Step 6: Read the main idea you've written next to the second paragraph. Write it as concisely as you can in a circle moving
clockwise around the rectange.

Step 7: Attach the details that explain or support the main idea you've
written in the second circle.

Step 8: Continue in this way until you finish the section, moving
clockwise around the rectange, putting each paragraph main idea
in a circle and attaching the supporting details to it.

Complete the assignments listed below. Fax me your mindmaps
or drop them off in Room 402 for me. The quizzes will be composed
of the questions in the text at the beginning of the section.

To prepare for the quizzes, practice reading your mindmap as a
story as we did in class.

Task	Mindmapping Assignment	Feedback
Task #17	Pp. 791 - 801	Fax me your mindmap or drop it off at school in room 402. Then e-mail me for quiz
Task #18	pp. 801-808	Fax me your mindmap or drop it off at school in room 402. Then e-mail me for quiz

Reading for Details - Outlining

How do you do it?

Materials from Berkin, MAKING AMERICA 2/E,2ed 1999 303130
displayed with special permission of Houghton MifflinCompany.
All rights reserved.

Outlining is a second way of taking notes while you are reading for
details. Its goal is the same as that of mindmapping: to show the relationship of one piece of information to another. Some people
prefer it as a notetaking method because it seems more orderly to
them.

Like mindmapping, outlining uses the spatial placement of information
to indicate its relative importance in relationship to other pieces of information and its connection to them.

The generally agreed upon presentation for outlining looks like this:

                I. Main point
                    A. Major point supporting I.
                         1. Detail supporting A.
                         2. Detail supporting A.
                              a. Minor detail supporting 2.
                              b. Minor detail supporting 2.
                    B. Major point supporting I.
                II. Main Point

As you can see, both the amount of indentation and the form of the number or letter that begins each line denotes the level of importance
of the information that follows.

Step 1: Next to the roman numeral, write the heading of the section.

I. Bank Holiday

Step 2: Read over the main idea you've written in the margin next
to the 1st paragraph. Then next to the letter "A." write it down as concisely as possible. Use phrases, not complete sentences.

I. Bank Holiday
A. Banking system crisis threatened economy.

Step 3: Read the sentences carefully and add the details that relate to point A. under it. When you've finished capturing the details in the
first paragraph, proceed to the next paragraph. Next to the letter "B." write the main idea of the second paragraph, basing it on the main
idea you've written in the margin next to it.

I. Bank Holiday
     A.Banking system crisis threatened            economy.
           1. Banks going out of business.
                 a. Couldn't collect on bad
                      debts.
                  b. $ invested lost in stock
                       market.
                  c. Depositors lost all.
             2. Crisis accelerating.
                   a. 1932 - 1,456 banks
                       closed.
                    b. 1933 - runs on banks;
                         more closures.
              3. 3/4/33 - all U.S. banks
                    closed.
        B. FDR tells country not to worry.

Step 4: Proceed in this way until you've finished the section. Then begin with roman numeral "II." and main idea of the next paragraph.

When you've finished an assignment, e-mail it to me. Practice
reading it as a story. Request the quiz when you're ready. The quiz will be composed of the questions that begin each major section.

Task	Outline	Feedback
#19	pp. 808 - 814	e-mail me outline; request quiz
#20	pp. 814 - 819	e-mail outline to listserv (wreading@listserv.cc.va.us); e-mail me to request quiz