2. Agenda
• Welcome
• Print/save CC slide shows
• Reading Horizons
• Cornell Note Taking System
• Q & A
3. Printing and Saving CCs
• Just in case your teacher speaks too quickly, or
you want to print something from class connect,
here is what you do:
• Go to File
• Save/Print (your choice)
• Whiteboard
• Select what you want to save
• Save as a .pdf NOT .wbd
4. Reading Horizons
• What is Reading Horizons?
• Similar to your traditional pullout
program in the brick and mortar
school, but you are able to complete
the program at home.
• Multi-sensory method that focuses on
phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension.
7. Cornell Notes
• Note taking strategy created at Cornell
University to help law students withtheir
students and improve test scores.
• Can use during lecture or while you read
assigned reading
8. Cornell Notes
• Keeps your notes organized
• Helps you to find important
information easier
• Focuses on important concepts like
vocabulary words, dates and people,
etc.
• Easy way to study
• Helpful way to review for tests.
16. How Do I take Cornell Notes?
6 Steps to taking Cornell Notes
1. Title and date your notes
2. Divide paper into the note taking section, question
section, and summary section
3. Take notes during Class Connects and OLS lessons
4. Create questions for the notes you took like you would see
on an assessment
5. Write a summary of the notes in your own words
6. STUDY YOUR NOTES!
17. Why Do You Want Me to Do This?
1. By taking notes and actively engaging in your
learning, you are letting your brain process the
information that was presented to you
2. Writing a summary of the notes also helps you
put the information in your own words so that
recall will come more naturally
3. Creating questions like you would see on an
assessment has helped your brain think of the
information in a different way and help with
applying the information you have learned
18. Tips for Successful Note Taking and
Studying
• Have your materials ready
• Avoid distractions
• Concentrate
• Have a good attitude
• Review notes several times
• Check for accuracy of your notes
• Underline/Highlight the important stuff
• Use notes to self test
19. More Tips
When you are reviewing, use different
colored highlighters to check your progress
• Green- I know this
• Yellow- I am close to knowing this
• Red- I don’t get this yet
22. Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old
Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws,
she gets crushes on boys. Until one night
when Soviet officers barge into her home,
tearing her family from the comfortable life
they've known. Separated from her father,
forced onto a crowded and dirty train car,
Lina, her mother, and her young brother
slowly make their way north, crossing the
Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest
reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced,
under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight
for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously--and
at great risk--documenting events by drawing,
hoping these messages will make their way to
her father's prison camp to let him know they
are still alive. It is a long and harrowing
journey, spanning years and covering 6,500
miles, but it is through incredible strength,
love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives.
