The document provides instructions for taking Cornell notes on a chapter from the book "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas Foster. The chapter is titled "When in Doubt, It's from Shakespeare". The instructions include 5 focus questions about the chapter and key terms to define. The notes are to address the questions using details from the text, define the vocabulary, and include a summary.

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Eng 12CP
DUE: ________
Cornell Notes Focus Questions
“When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare” Chapter
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
Instructions: Your Cornell notesshould ultimately address the following questions and concepts articulated below. That said, you
are not just merely sticking to thisinformation alone and your notes should NOT merely be a list of these questions with answers.
You are to use your noteson the entire chapterto address the main idea points presented here.
1. Cite a line from the chapter that states the main message of the chapter. Explain how this is the
main idea in terms of the chapter’s title “When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare.”
2. Why is Shakespeare so often a point of references for new writers? Cite 3 reasons according to
the text.
3. What makes Shakespeare an “authority”? (Especially since we don’t know if he actually wrote
his own plays.)
4. Foster offers numerous examples of ways Shakespeare has been recreated; identify & explain 3.
5. Foster notes, “Shakespeare[...]provides a figure against whom writers can struggle, a source of
texts against which other texts can bounce ideas.” Explain this statement.
KEY VOCABULARY: the Bard, authority (in terms of being a “sacred text”), uniquity, interplay
FOCUS CORRECTIONAL AREAS
________/ 30 Total Points
MRS J YOU TOTAL
PTS
10 All main idea questions prompted (above) are fully addressed/answered.
5 Each key vocabulary word appears highlighted/underlined and accurately defined.
5 Key Concepts include a record ofat least 8-10 key ideas expressed directly in the
text (should appear as a balance between direct quoting and key phrases/points).
5 Recorded Notes include thorough and accurate responses to the Key Concepts
section by specifically referencing details from the text.
5 Summary fully and accurately sums up, in 6-8 sentences minimum, at least 5 main
ideas expressed in the chapter.
Requirements:
❏ MLA format; types (unless otherwise approved)
❏ Cornell notes format (must include Key Concepts, Recorded Notes, & Summary sections)
❏ Chapter title in quotation marks and book title in italics/underline
❏ Notes appear in “short-hand” techniques are used in that bullet points, indentation,
highlighting/bolding/underlining appear to organize the chapter in notation form
Dominick Horton-Miller

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Eng 12CP
Mrs. Jenkins
English 12CP
1 December 2015
“It’s from Shakespeare”
KEY CONCEPTS RECORDED NOTES
1.Main Messsage of Chapter
2. Shakespeare as a.Point of
Reference
3. Shakespeare as an authority
Interplay
4. Shakespeare-Recreation
5. Shakespeare-Ideas
Bard
● Shakespear’s never the same, “every age and every writer
reinvents its own Shakespeare. All this from a man who
we’re still not sure actually wrote the plays that bear his
name”- This is stating how William Shakespeare is a
timeless figure that is almost a resource to people in
society.
● Relating to Taming of the Shrew-Musical “Kiss Me Kate”
● West Side Story is a revoking story of Romeo and Juliet
● Shakespeare was seen as an authority through how his work
appeared for many centuries, and can be seen as a way of
resource. Shakespeare today is someone everyone knows
and affects the way of specific modern writings and
paradies that have been created as well.
● opposite relationship, action, and influence of characters
and a stories plot
● Through the chapter of “When in doubt, It’s from
Shakespeare” T.S. Elliot’s story “the lovesong of J. Alfred
Peacock” relates to hamlet showing how he isn’t a good
king which is the same thing that is stated to hamlet. This is
just one symbolization of intertextuality that has an impact
from Shakespeare’s writing.
● Shakespeare is a form of idea sources for writers, because
as stated previously he is an authority figure where his
written work is used in writings now either as a plot, or a
complete parody of a Shakespeare writing. Because of this
Shakespeare and his ideas have definitely been some of the
best out of any writers because of how well known he is,
and how much they are used today.
a form of poet known for writing epics and heroic poems which,
Shakespeare can be known for because of how he is classic and

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used a lot.
SUMMARY: This entire chapter of the story is a complete explanation of Shakespeare’s way of writing
and how his writing(s) as well as his name have appeared many times through several different stories for
many, many years. After this entire chapter I have learned that there are many reasons for Shakespeare
reappearing over history as well as there being many more sources of information through different
writings.