1. Pick up your folder, please.
2. Individual Reading. Fill out your reading log. Take home any make-up work in your folder (pink).
3. Inference Practice! (A3 do #2 . A4 do #3.)
A3 needs to do stereograms:
Try it
Memorize this string of numbers:
912161923263033
Now break it into these chunks and look for a pattern.
9 12 16 19 23 26 30 33
If you can find the pattern, it will make memorizing much easier.
Try it.
See below #6 for A4.
6. Creating a Mind Map for Lewis and Clark!
You have or will have two articles. When doing research, always use more than one source -- to avoid plagiarism, and to give yourself a more complete view of the subject.
About
drawing for a mind map. (Or, you don't have to be a Mr. Bryson to do this!)
Use the map showing cities to copy the cities onto your map.
Label the rivers.
Start putting the people on the map.
A4 still needs to do:
7. Other things to do AFTER READING: Review
Central Ideas Review
What is a central idea?
1. the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about
It must be a complete sentence that includes the topic and a statement about it.
We look for the central idea in nonfiction, and for the theme in fiction.
synonyms
key point
main idea
the point
what it's all about
How do I identify it?
- The overall gist
- What is most of it about, and what is the author saying about that?
- Repeated words
- Repeated synonyms and pronouns
- Is there one sentence that just seems to wrap up everything else?
- If not, are there parts of more than one sentence that I could put into one sentence, and it would wrap up everything else?
Where could I find it in the passage?
At the beginning
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| At the end |
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| In the middle |
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| Not stated directly -- just implied |
mnemonics
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Mnemosyne (in mythology) was
a titan (a giant who was sort of like a goddess)
who was the personification of memory.
[nee-mos-uh-nee, -moz-] |
"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
"I before E, except after C, or when sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh."
Five Freedoms in the First Amendment
"Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be
Freedom of Religion and Assembly,
Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,
Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."
Acronyms: BICUM =
National Aeronautics Space Administration
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
The Five Great Lakes = Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
The space notes in the treble clef = F, A, C, E
The colors of the rainbow =
Organs in the excretory system = skin, kidneys, intestines, liver, lungs
Acrostics:
The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet.
Every Good Boy Does Fine =
= the Planets in Our Solar System
Creating Mind-Maps can help you to understand and remember.
Examples:
Here are some examples of Mind Maps for other subjects:
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Other Types of Mnemonics
Mini-Stories:
Songs: Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah?
Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary
Peg System:
Peg System for Memorization
Loci System: Select a place you know well
