Complete this problem to test your note-taking skills. Ask a friend to read a short story or article aloud to you.
Prepare yourself to listen and take notes.
When you finish your notes, use this checklist:
Did you prepare yourself for listening by clearing your mind of situations which would keep you from focusing?
Did you show courtesy to your friend when he read to you?
Did you understand the problem or issue presented?
Did the story or article create mental pictures?
Did you find the main supporting ideas?
Did you discover the conclusion or final decision?
Tell the story to your friend to show how well you listened. You may use your notes. Ask your friend to tell you if your notes were thorough. If you need more practice, have your friends read another story and go through the same procedures.
Type the notes in the space below and show your teacher the story or article from which your notes came.

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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

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Match each mode of narration to the excerpt in which it is used.