1. Note-Taking and Idea-Making for Revision
Unit 2 Lesson 3

4. Tips on note-taking
Read a section of text, pause to think about what is important, and then write your notes.
Consider the main ideas and supporting details as you read. A structure like boxes and bullets can help you to organize your notes.
Instead of copying from the text, try to put the information in your own words.(If this is hard, don’t look at the original text when recording notes.)
Keep track of your source so you can return later to confirm or get more information.

5. Teaching point
Today, I wan to teach you that researchers shift between reading to collect and record information and writing to grow ideas. As note-takers, the researchers record and ALSO reflect. When reflecting, researchers think, and talk, and jot about patterns, surprises, points of comparison or contrast, and they entertain questions.

6. The Race West
“People in the United States and Canada became more interested in the West. They heard stories about rich ranchers, huge areas of unused land, and gold finds. The two countries grew fearful that they might lose this land to each other or Mexico. They needed citizens to go occupy the land in order to keep it. Both governments offered cheap land to anyone who claimed it, and the race to settle the West began. “

7. The Race West
“People in the United States and Canada became more interested in the West. They heard stories about rich ranchers, huge areas of unused land, and gold finds. The two countries grew fearful that they might lose this land to each other or Mexico. They needed citizens to go occupy the land in order to keep it. Both governments offered cheap land to anyone who claimed it, and the race to settle the West began. “
U.S. and Canada wanted to keep land in the west. Gov’t offered cheap land to settlers who wanted to get rich.

8. U. S. and Canada wanted to keep land in the west
U.S. and Canada wanted to keep land in the west. Gov’t offered cheap land to settlers who wanted to get rich.
Why didn’t Mexico do the same thing? Why didn’t they offer the land to their people?

9. U. S. and Canada wanted to keep land in the west
U.S. and Canada wanted to keep land in the west. Gov’t offered cheap land to settlers who wanted to get rich.
Why didn’t Mexico do the same thing? Why didn’t they offer the land to their people?
Push my thinking: Maybe Mexico didn’t realize how valuable the land was, or maybe Mexico was busy fighting for independence from Spain. Maybe they felt as though they had enough land and didn’t want to fight with the U.S. and Canada.

10. Now you do
“People in the United States and Canada became more interested in the West. They heard stories about rich ranchers, huge areas of unused land, and gold finds. The two countries grew fearful that they might lose this land to each other or Mexico. They needed citizens to go occupy the land in order to keep it. Both governments offered cheap land to anyone who claimed it, and the race to settle the West began. “

11. What do you wonder?

12. What do you wonder?
Maybe how the U.S. gained the advantage over Canada?

13. Information Writers
1. Think about the topic-and the parts of the topic-to write about
2. Plan how the writing might go.
3. Research, taking notes.
4. Draft
Revise with various lenses: Growing ideas, looking for patterns, and asking questions.