If you do not have the reader for  Office 2007 (.docx), you can get it here.

Reading Skills

• General Notes - taking: lecture and reading; includes SQRRR and SOS methods.
  
  
• Ms Miner's SQ3R instructions.
  
   
• Document Analysis -- those four items to consider: primary sources or excerpts from secondary sources
  
  

Essay Writing Skills

•  AP = "Answer the Prompt" -- analysis of the prompt.

• Thesis Statement - Topic, Precise Opinion, Roadmap (blueprint)
   
• Document Analysis -- those four items to consider when writing a DBQ response
  
  
• Transitions -- to help clarify your thoughts and your writing
  
   

In the Classroom

• Debate / Discussion   -- "Informal Debate" style  (.pdf)
  
  
• Cornell System  for taking "live" notes; this method is different from "SOS" method.