For the next few days, we will be working on memory. Short and long-term memory are an important key to academic success!
Below are documents that we are using in class to help improve memory:
Memory
20 Memory Techniques
Here’s a link to a memory picture test:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/puzmatch.html
Warm Up:
1) Take out & Open up agenda’s
2) Take out a separate sheet of paper & put today’s date at the top.
Answer the following essay:
There are both good things and bad things about playing on a team, such as the RTMS soccer team or the RTMS volleyball team. Write an essay (2 paragraphs) comparing and contrasting playing on a school team. Be sure to explain each point thoroughly.
3) Go over the essay.
Warm Up:
Short Answer Question:
A student wants to slow the motion of particles of a substance as much as possible. What should the student do?
Agenda:
Continue The Essay Test
Please review your notes and the following documents.
Standardized Test Strategies
Taking Multiple Choice Exams
The Essay Exam
Short Answer Tests
If you have questions, ask!
How do you take tests? Do you get nervous or anxious? How do tests affect you? Over the next few weeks, we will spend a good amount of time going through all of the different test-taking strategies (and there are lots of them). However, at the end of this unit, you will have a great deal of knowledge to help you combat the many types of tests you will face over your lifetime.
The materials that will be provided to you will come from various sources, including the SOAR book as you see above. You will have all of the resources, but it is up to YOU to take full advantage of what you are given.
Warm Up: How do you take notes in math? What strategies do you use?
Agenda:
Math is Not a Spectator Sport
Cornell Notes template
HW: Review your goals, both academic and personal, what can you do to improve your goals? What do you need to change in order to achieve them?
Warm Up: What is motivation? What motivates you?
AGENDA:
Weekly Planner
Will Smith video:
http://thebertshow.com/will-smith-believes-that-your-thoughts-have-physical-power/
Warm Up: Besides the Cornell System, what are two more ways you can take notes in class?
Agenda:
Marginalia – what is it?
Marginalia is note taking in the margins of books. It’s that simple!
But how does it work? Students use post-it notes in order to take notes. Students open their book to whatever chapter they are currently working on. They will read one to two paragraphs at a time (depending on the amount of information in each paragraph). Then they will take a post it note and put it in the margin of the paragraph(s) they just read. On the post-it note, they will SUMMARIZE the information they have just read.
Marginalia makes studying easier because studnets have the summarized information right in front of them. Students won’t have to re-read each paragraph. Instead, they can go over their post-it notes.
HINT: Studying becomes easier if students color-code their post-its by chapter. In other words, make each chapter a different color.
Warm Up: From the DVD that you watched yesterday, what is the Cornell Method of Taking Notes??
Method #1: Cornell Method of Notes
How to Take Cornell Notes
Cornell System (Instructions)
Cornell Notes (blank)
You will have a quiz tomorrow over the note-taking symbols and the signal words (see previous post for documents).
Here is your chance to earn bonus points:
BONUS Questions
So write down the answers and then at the end of your quiz write the answers!