Agenda, Jan. 19, 2011 Remember your reaction to the President’s speech. Quick-write, to be completed in your Notebook. Let’s read page 5 of the Guidebook, keep your agenda out. Read and complete Guidebook page 6. After that let’s study different styles of note-taking. Copy the samples into your Notebook. Time remaining examine “Learning & Memory” beginning on page 7 of your Guidebook & Workbook. If we still have time remaining examine page 8, “The Laws of Learning” in your Guidebook. Homework: Page 7 of your Workbook, “Note Taking.” Also use your new note-taking skills and taking web/mapping notes on your 3 greatest achievements and something you can teach someone else.

Objectives Jan. 19, 2011 All Students Shall; Become familiar with 3 common styles of note-taking by practicing them in their Notebooks. Learn the advantages and disadvantages of each. Begin to study two styles of memory, learning instantly and by repetition. Be able to return tomorrow with notes from another class converted into the Cornell Note format in the space provided in the Workbook.

Quick-write, Roger Staubach & achievement “Spectacular achievement comes from unspectacular preparation.” Quoted from Roger Staubach Dallas Cowboys and U.S. Naval Academy Hall of Famer.

Note-taking tips. Cornell Notes Main Idea Important Information

Practice Cornell Notes America During World War II Main Idea Important Information Pearl Harbor The USA officially entered World War II after Japan attacked the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. Declaration of War The following day the U.S. Congress declared war on Japan. American Ethnic Groups American ethnic groups like Asians, Native-Americans, Latinos, and African-Americans served with honor during the war. The 442 regiment was an all Japanese-American Army unit. The Navajo Code-talkers were Marines that sent secret messages that the Japanese army could not break. Mexican-Americans won the most honors than any other group. More than 1 million African-Americans joined the U.S. military during World War II.