Cornell Notes

Cornell NotesName, class, period, date

Title of the notesWhat is the subject

of the notes?

Notes: Take them any way that makes sense to you.

(Concrete/Abstract would go here.) After the class, go

back and highlight key facts or star important info.

Questions generated from the notes or main ideas in the notes

Summary of notes

Why take Cornell Notes?

• Questions help you study.• Who went back to their notes before the

compound sentence test?• Doing so may have saved several of you from

having to retake.• What is the purpose of the summary?• Make sure you understand the info in the

notes.

Use Cornell Notes to take notes on Complex Sentences

• Prep your notes.• Draw a line down from the top line 1/3 of the

way over, leaving space at the bottom (3-4 lines) for the summary.

• Label with your name, class, period, and date.• Put Complex Sentences as your title.

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Randi LundgrenEnglish II3rd Period1-13-14

Complex Sentences

• Complex sentences have ONE independent clause and ONE or MORE dependant clauses.

• For something to be considered a clause, it must have a subject and verb in it. If it only has one of these, it is a phrase, not a clause (Infinitive phrase, prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase).

• Don’t get clauses and phrases mixed up.

Take a card and crease and tear it hamburger style.

• Take a card and write P on one side and C on the other.

• On the other write I on one side and D on the other.

Determine which of the following examples are clauses and which are phrases.

• While jogging• If you buy a mouse a cookie• Between Joe and Mary• When I leave school• After the monkey died• To go to work• Violently in his sleep• With Mickey and Minnie

• P• C• P• C• C• P• P• P

Determine which of the following clauses are independent or dependant.

• I jog daily.• If I die young.• When the time is up.• I want a ride to the store.• After the movie was over.• The homework was tough.• With the hero winning.• I need a hero.

• I• D• D• I• D• I• D• I

Many sentences have both a dependant and independent clause.

• Kathy stayed home because she had a fever.

• If the weather is nice, Sally will go to the park.

• I will sleep until the alarm rings.

Do not confuse an introductory phrase with a dependant clause.

• While running quickly, Paul got a cramp.

• Dependant clauses often begin with a subordinating conjunction: If, because, although, unless

• I love to cook although it takes time.

• The girls won’t come unless you call them.

• The turkey is not thawed because we forgot to take it out

of the freezer.

Remember, a complex sentence has one independent clause and one or

more dependant clauses.

• I will go to the store after I make a shopping list.

• When he eats his food, the dog gets meat chunks all

over his face.

• Since she is my closest friend, I will buy something

special for her birthday.

Punctuation

• If the dependant clause comes before the independent clause, use a comma to separate the two clauses.

• No comma is needed if the dependant clause comes after the independent clause.

• Therefore, there are two Complex Sentence formulae: D,I and ID

In the Formula Reference Section, under the next section, write our third set of formula.

Simple SentenceS VSS VS VVSS VV

Compound Sentence

I, cII; I

Complex SentenceD, II D

Where do commas go in these sentences, and what formula are being used?

• My dad will be happy if I get good grades this

semester.

• Since Jason is a good student he will probably

get all As.

• I never would have believed it if I had not seen it.

• When you have decided please let me know.

Bell work: Addition• Instead of providing vocabulary words for you to

guess at the meaning, we are going to work on replacements. I will have a word or two bold, italicized and underlined, and you need to come up with a better more scholarly word to replace it. Also, when you see “you” used, come up with a way to replace it.

• So if the sentence says: It is big. You might say…• It is enormous, immense, colossal, mammoth,

expansive, titanic…• If it says: When you go home… you might say…

When a person goes home…

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• After they skated the guys went out for pizza.

• Wonce you finish you’re plan show me how it

gone work.

• The bad man left me a lone win he finish robin

me.

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• After they skated, the gentlemen went out for pizza.

• D, I

• Once one finishes his plan, he should demonstrate

how it will work.

• D, I (D)

• The wicked man left me alone when he finished

robbing me.

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• Whenever you see hour light’s on we at home.

• Even if we got a good team we may not win.

• Candy wear a amazing hat, because she want

too look good.

1-14-14• Whenever one sees our lights on, we are at home.

• D, I

• Even if we have a superb team, we may not win.

• D, I

• Candy wore an incredible hat because she wanted

to look stunning.

• ID

1-15-14• Shanna lookeded happy ounce her test was over.

• While the cold snow genteley fall, the streets

were silent.

• Whenever Ryan smile at me my heart melt.

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• Shanna looked elated once her test was over.• ID• While the frigid snow gently fell, the streets

remained silent.• D, I• Whenever Ryan smiles at me, my heart melts.• D, I