Reading Skills

• General Notes - taking: lecture and reading; includes SQRRR and SOS methods. (Link temporarily unavailable.)
  
  
• 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
  
   
• Deciding Which Question to answer (if you have a choice)
  
   
• 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.