1. BUILDING A CHAPTER OUTLINE
EASY STEPS

2. READ AND UNDERSTAND
Scan the chapter for bold printed words and familiarize yourself with them
Understand all section titles
Read all titles printed in red, blue or green
Take a look at all pictures and see
how they relate to the text

3. ROMAN NUMERALS Roman Numerals should be the titles of each section
Subsections (1,2,etc.) should identify the main ideas of the section title and list important places and terms

4. ALPHABETICAL LISTINGS
Alphabet letters should designate the subsections of the main section topic. (In your book these are printed in red or blue lettering.)

5. NUMERICAL LISTINGS
These identify the topics that the subsections explain (These are in green in your book)

6. CONTENT
All content should be read and the main points should be listed under the green heading. Use short sentences and paraphrase the main ideas of each paragraph.

7. EXAMPLE CHAPTER 11 sec. 1
I. Today’s issues- Latin America
1. Special interest groups make competing demands on the resources of the rain forest
2. As the rain forests are destroyed, the quality of life on earth is threatened
3. biodiversity, deforestation,
global warming, debt-for-nature
swap

8. EXAMPLE CHAPTER 11 sec. 1
Human perspective- scientists confirm richness of plant and animal life in Amazon rainforest
Rain Forest Land Uses- rainforest is important but is being destroyed
1. Clearing the rainforest-timber demand is great; natives cut down trees for land but it is not fertile;
trees cut for cattle grazing land

9. EXAMPLE CHAPTER 11 sec. 1
Population pressures- Brazilian pop. Contributing to forest decline; developers want to cut forest to build homes for growing population
C. Price of Destruction- short term benefits offset by damage to environment

10. EXAMPLE CHAPTER 11 sec. 1
Environmental concerns- forests regulate climate; when forest shrink more CO2 appears; slash-and-burn produces CO2
Plants and animals in danger- forests cover 6% of world but home to 50% of plant and animal species;
these will disappear when forest
dies

11. EXAMPLE CHAPTER 11 sec. 1
Moving toward solutions- creative solutions needed to solve problems
1. Juggling act- countries trying to decide how to balance economic growth and preservation activities
Fighting eco. with eco.- debt-for-nature swap seen as solution to
preserve forest

12. EXAMPLE CHAPTER 11
Giving Citizens a Voice
Continue the remainder of the chapter just as we did in section 1.