Outlining: How to Take Notes

 

When you are outlining you should only use the most important information and put it in your own words so that you can understand your notes later when you look back. Only use the author's words when he has chosen vocabulary you feel perfectly describes an issue or event. When you do quote an author, write down the page number of the quote immediately.

*Note: Due to internet constraints the following outline is not indented properly. You will need to indent your outline.

 

 It would be very good to say that this friendship
     lasted a long time; but, unfortunately, that was not to be.
     More English people came to America, and they were not in
     need of help from the Indians as were the original
     Pilgrims. Many of the newcomers forgot the help the Indians
     had given them. Mistrust started to grow and the friendship
     weakened. The Pilgrims started telling their Indian
     neighbors that their Indian religion and Indian customs
     were wrong. The Pilgrims displayed an intolerance toward
     the Indian religion similar to the intolerance displayed
     toward the less popular religions in Europe. The
     relationship deteriorated and within a few years the
     children of the people who ate together at the first
     Thanksgiving were killing one another in what came to be
     called King Phillip's War.

I. Relationship
.......A. Short-lived
............1. more immigrants
................a. forgot Indian help
............2. mistrust
............3. didn't agree with Indian religion
"The Pilgrims displayed an intolerance toward the Indian religion similar to the intolerance displayed toward the less popular religions in Europe" (p. 6)
............4. later settlers killed Indians - King ...............Phillips War