Cornell Notes
Course Readings
Big History
Middle School History
Know your school
100

These two pieces of information belong at the top of each page of Cornell Notes? 

Topic/Subject and date

100

In the Beginning contains a collection of these? 

Creation stories/myths

100

It is believed that our universe it approximately this old? 

13.8 billion years 

100

He was the 6th president of the United States? 

JQA 

100

Formerly the home of Science, this newly renovated building will now house History and English? 

Minis

200

This is the name for the left-hand column that can include questions and vocabulary? 

Cue

200

This book, by Yuval Noah Harari, explores the peculiar characteristics of our human species? 

Sapiens

200
This term describes the process of examining a topic from different perspectives of time and space? 

Scale switching

200

The United States entered World War I in this year? 

1917

200

SCDS was founded in which year? 

1955 (1905)

300

What should students include at the end of each note-taking session? This is done at the bottom of the page. 

Summary

300

You will read a book titled "A History of the World in XXX Objects." How many objects will the book cover? 

100

300

Big History attempts to unify these two disciplines in order to better understand the human past? 

History and Science

300

Women gained the right to vote with this Constitutional amendment? 

19

300

Mr. Mitchell (9th grade English) completed his B.A. at Elon University. In high school (Asheville School), he was varsity captain of this team?  

Lacrosse

400

True or False: Cornell Notes can ONLY be used for lectures and text-based readings? 

False. Cornell Notes can be used for all teaching/learning media. 

400

Where do i look to see what readings are assigned for homework? 

Blackbaud

400

These are critical turning points when the right ingredients emerged under the right conditions to create more complexity? 

Threshold

400

This is the name historians use to describe the period immediately following the Civil War when the government attempted to reconcile differences between Northern and Southern states? 

Reconstruction

400

Ms. Bethel joins us from the University of Georgia in Athens. A native of Atlanta, she attended this school before heading to college? 

Pace Academy
500

Cornell University, from where Cornell notes derive, is located where (city AND state)? 

Ithaca, New York

500

She is the author of In the Beginning

Virginia Hamilton

500

This term is used to describe the process of proving a hypothesis or theory? 

Claim testing

500

The Bay of Pigs invasion involved a U.S.-assisted attack on which country's government? 

Cuba

500

Ms. Myers (10th grade History) joins us just having completed her M.A. at Georgetown University. From which state does she hail? 

Maryland

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