Taking Lecture Notes “Crunching” Practice

Directions: Crunch each of the following ideas into a short note you might use if you heard it in a lecture. Remember that during the enhancement phase you can inflate or expand the note. The first three are examples.

1. Humans have sewn by hand for 20,000 years. The needles were first made of bones until the iron needle was invented in the 14^th century.

sew 20,000 yrs old— bone needles then iron 14^th C___________

2. Geologists classify rocks into three types: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.

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3. Marking in your textbook is almost a necessity if you want to understand it.

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4. The single most important thing you can do to be successful in college is to attend classes regularly.

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5. PowerPoint presentations are often a favorite of teachers but these presentations put many students to sleep.

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6. Phobias are extreme fears and manias are extreme cravings.

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7. In 1910, one in thirteen marriages ended in divorce; today nearly one in two ends in divorce.

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8. It is a myth that you can tell the age of a rattlesnake by the number of rattles on its tail; a healthy rattlesnake can grow several new rattles in a single year.

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9. It is important that parents respond quickly to a baby’s cry for the first two years of its life. Quick responses build a sense a trust in the baby.

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10. A semicolon is a punctuation mark used primarily to join two complete sentences together when their meanings are related.

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11. Quizzing yourself many times with breaks in between is far more effective than studying the same thing in one long block of time.

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12. The deceit of memory is that we believe we will remember something permanently after hearing or reading it for the first time.

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