Notetaking

Your research paper should answer the Big Questions. As you conduct your research, write down answers to the following questions. If you can’t answer these questions, you will need to do more research. 1. What is the story? (Describe what happened, when, and where.) ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________  2. Who was involved? (Individuals and groups?) ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. What were the causes? (What conditions led to this development?) ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. What were the effects? (How did it affect people in its own time and in later in history? Did it have an effect on our own time?) ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________  5. Why is this event important? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________  6. What can we learn from it? (about politics, society, human nature?) (Does it provide wisdom or warnings for the future? ______________________________________________________________________________  ______________________________________________________________________________  7. What is interesting about this story?  ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________