The ONLY note-taking strategy you NEED to teach history. Description: This is a note-taking strategy that I came up with, designed, and started using this year. It’s what I called a One-Page Summary, and it’s a one page notes template designed to cover ONE topic, chapter, or section at a time. Because it’s one page only, I focus only on the pertinent information that the students must absolutely walk away knowing. This is based on the McDougal-Littell “World History: Patterns of Interaction” C