There are several ways to take notes when listeing to a speech and some methods might be more effective for your way of learning than others.
However, there are some actions to make this process faster that pretty much work for everyone.
The best way to write notes is to stay focused on important things and only write these important things down. If it's about a subject that you understand enough, you can go as far as only writing keywords, as these will help you, as reminders for whole ideas, later when reading the notes.
If you are using a sentence from the passage given, you have to put it in quotes and mention which paragraph it’s from.
For example:
“Sentence from prompt” (paragraph 1)
Hope this helps
C. Folks were struggling to survive in most places, but in California they had jobs, it has the conjunction word “but”.
What did the main character(characters) learn from the story. That is your theme.<span />
Which story because I don’t really get the question?
