Cornell Notes #1

Cornell Notes for Sources

TITLE: Room 399’s Blog
AUTHOR:
YEAR PUBLISHED: April 18, 2006

Main Idea #1:

Summary: No one is perfect. There is always something bad to discover about a person, even if you think that they have a perfect life.


Quote: “’Everyone, quote Torey's mom, has a skeleton in their closet’”


Question: Torey seemed to have the perfect life. He had a lot of friends, good parents, a lot of money, a nice house, a pretty girlfriend and he was happy. What did Chris Creed’s suicide do to Torey that made him question his life?


Main Idea #2:

Summary: You do not know what a person is experiencing until it happens to you.


Quote: “’You don’t know what everyone is dealing with unless you experienced what they have experienced.’”


Question: Torey, Bo and Ali try to figure out why Creed killed himself. They observed a lot of his family life and how he got bullied in school, but they still didn’t really understand why he ran away in the first place. Why? What would they have had to do to fully understand Chris’ disappearance?

How will this source help you write your paper?

This source will help me because it talks about a theme that we talked about briefly in class, but didn’t really go that into it. We talked about how Torey had a very good life, and how he messed up his life when he got involved with the disappearance of Chris Creed. However, we did not talk about how Torey, Ali and Bo did not fully understand why Chris disappeared in the first place, even though they tried very hard. No one, not even his family will ever fully understand why Chris disappeared because they did not experience what he experienced in his life.