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  • IB Business Management
    • 01 Business Organization and the Environment >
      • 1.1 Introduction to Business Management
      • 1.2 Types of business organizations
      • 1.3 Organizational objectives
      • 1.4 Stakeholders
      • 1.5 External Environment
      • 1.6 Growth and Evolution
      • 1.7 Organizational planning tools
    • 02 Human Resources >
      • 2.1 Human Resource Planning
      • 2.2 Organizational Structure
      • 2.3 Leadership and Management
      • 2.4 Motivation
      • 2.5 Organizational and corporate cultures
      • 2.6 Employer and employee relations
    • 03 Finance and Accounting >
      • 3.1 Sources of finance
      • 3.2 Costs and revenues
      • 3.3 Break-even analysis
      • 3.4 Financial Accounts
      • 3.5 & 3.6 Ratio Analysis
      • 3.7 Cash flow
      • 3.8 Investment appraisal
      • 3.9 Budgets
    • 04 Marketing >
      • 4.1 The Role Marketing
      • 4.2 Marketing Planning
      • 4.3 Sales Forcasting
      • 4.4 Market Research
      • 4.5 Product >
        • 4.5 Price
        • 4.5 Promotion
        • 4.5 Place
      • 4.7 International Marketing and Globalization
    • The Exam
  • IB Economics
    • 01 Microeconomics >
      • 1. The Foundations of Economics
      • 1.1 Demand and Supply
      • 1.2 Elasticities
      • 1.3 Government Intervention
      • 1.4 Market Failure
    • 02 Macroeconomics >
      • 01 Level of Economic Activity
      • 2.2 Aggregate Demand
      • 2.3 Aggregate Supply
      • 2.4 Macroeconomic Equlibruim
      • 2.5 Unemployment
      • 2.6 Inflation
      • 2.7 Economic Growth
      • 2.8 Equity in the distribution of income
    • 03 International Economics >
      • 3.1 Free Trade
      • 3.2 Protectionism
      • 3.3 Exchange Rates
      • 3.4 Balance of Payments
      • 3.5 Economic Integration
    • 04 Development Economics >
      • 4.1 Economic Development
      • 4.2 Measuring Development
    • 05 Exam Preparation
  • Individuals & Societies 8
    • 01 Belief systems and their influence on culture
    • 02 How are societies governed?
    • 03 Japan 1603 - 1945: Isolation and then expansion
    • 04 What are natural hazards and how do societies respond to them? Case Study: Japan
  • Individuals & Societies 7
    • 01 Economic Growth and Development
    • 02 Where are all the people?
    • 03 What can we learn from Classical Civilizations (Greece) >
      • 03 What can we learn from Classical Civilizations?
    • 04 How has globalization shaped the world?
  • AP World History
    • Free Response Questions
    • 10,000 BCE - 600CE
    • 600 - 1450
    • 1450 - 1750
  • AP Human Geo
    • 01 Geography its nature and perspectives
    • 02 Population and Migration
    • 03 Cultural Geography
    • 04 Political Geography
    • 05 Urban Geography
    • 06 Economic Geography
    • 07 Agricultural Geography
    • Exam Review
  • Previously Taught Courses
    • G12 Economics >
      • Basic Economic Ideas
      • Producing and Consuming
      • Financial Capability
      • Managing the Economy
    • G10 World History >
      • 01 Exploration, Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
      • 02 The American Revolution
      • 03 France: Absolute Monarchy & Revolution
      • 04 The Industrial Revolution
      • 05 Imperialism and Nationalism
      • 06 WW1
      • 07 Inter-War Period
      • 08 WW2
    • G9 World History >
      • 01 Human beginnings and early civilizations
      • 03 Classical China
      • 04 The Muslim World
      • 05 Interregional Networks and Contacts 500 - 1450
      • 01 The Individuals and Societies Toolbox
      • 06 The Renaissance and Reformation >
        • Oral Presentations
    • G9 Social Studies >
      • History >
        • Analyzing Sources
      • Geography
    • G7 Social Studies >
      • Introduction to Empowerment
      • Economic Empowerment
      • Political Empowerment
      • Cultural Empowerment
      • National Empowerment
      • 04 Resources and the environment
      • Finance and Accounting >
        • 3.1 Sources of finance
        • 3.2 Investment appraisal
        • 3.3 Working capital
        • 3.4 Budgeting
        • 3.5 Financial Accounts
        • 3.6 Ratio Analysis
  • Extended Essay
    • 01 Getting Started
    • 02 Structuring the EE
  • Writing Skills
  • Critical Reading

Critical Reading and Taking Notes

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Reading and note taking a are important skills that are essential to any Social Studies (History, Geography, Economics and Politics) course. Throughout the courses you are taking you will be asked to skim read, proofread or highlight the key ideas of a piece of writing . The following worksheets will be used during the year and can help you with common reading and note taking tasks assigned by other teachers .

Interactive Social Studies Notebooks

Reading Your Textbook And Vocabulary Building 

The Freyer Model is a graphic organizer – an effective way to teach vocabulary at all grade levels.  My students complete a Freyer Model for every vocabulary word we are learning, showing their understanding both linguistically and non-linguistically.  There are five parts to this graphic organizer.  

In the middle of the graphic organizer, in the circle, students enter their vocabulary word, e.g. cat.  Then, students write the definition of their vocabulary word in the upper left hand box, e.g. a small domesticated carnivore. 

In the upper right hand corner box, students write characteristics that come to mind about this word, e.g. furry, friendly, kittens, etc. 

Students then write some examples and non-examples in the lower right and lower left hand boxes
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Applying Critical Thinking When Reading

The Cornell Note Taking Method

The following method of taking notes is very useful for high school students, particularly those taking AP World History or AP Human Geography.  This method will help you to organize your notes in a uniform style and most importantly will help you to only take notes on the pertinent information from your textbook. This is a skill we will practice in class and will be one you can use when you study at university. 
Notetaking Workshop for Teachers
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Document Analysis
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Notetaking for Students
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Using note cards
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Document / Source Analysis

As a student of Social Studies you will often have analyze primary and secondary sources which can be quite daunting depending on the length of the source and when it was written. You will practice analyzing documents / sources throughout middle and high school and will use worksheets as the ones attached below to make it easier for you.

Analyzing and Interpreting Images

Think Literacy: Reading Photographs (with a focus on making inferences) 

Being able to analyzing and interpret images (paintings, photographs and cartoons) is just as much as an important skill for an historian as being able to work with written documents. As we move through the presentation on the Great Wall students will complete the following table with their partner. 
*Make sure you use language such as:
  • The presentation depicted _____________which would suggest that _________ 
  • Based on the image of the a/the we can infer that ______. This tells us that ____________. 
The Great Wall of China
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The Great Wall Image Analysis
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Conducting Research

If you are asked by your teacher to conduct research on a particular topic or historical figure you should consider questions that you would like to be answers. Use the following question matrix to help you.

Peer Editing

Peer editing groups give each writer a chance to write for an audience other than the professor--when you know that your peers are going to be reading your draft, you are often more likely to think ahead about how you can interest your audience and how you can explain your ideas clearly After some initial inevitable self-consciousness, writing groups can really come together, look forward to reading and responding to each others' work, and take pride in the accomplishments of others.

 Peer editing can be a confidence builder to those writers who are insecure about their own writing. You are likely to find that others first drafts aren't so great either, and you'll find out how much you can actually help other writers with your own responses. Below is an example of a peer editing checklist we use for AP World History. Different grade levels will use different types of peer editing checklists.

Skimming and Scanning

Skimming and Scanning
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Making Judgements

Making Judgments Confederation
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