Announcements and Reminders:
We will begin with studying in groups -- a strategy from your BICUM Brochure.
Prepare for your test on
The Bill of Rights
BICUM strategies
the CRAAP test
Next time, hand in your unused hall passes!
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Targets for Today:
Use strategies to retain/remember.
Show what you know by testing.
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Today’s Agenda:
Pick up your folder.
1. Study together for the tests you will take today, and make sure your BICUM Brochure is finished and ready to turn in.
2. Fluency practice -- and fill out your graph.
Turn in your BICUM Brochure
3. Tests on
The Bill of Rights (The First Ten Amendments)
BICUM Brochure and strategies
The CRAAP Test
4. Individual reading and fill out your reading log.
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If You Were Absent:
Study this post.
Be prepared to hand in your completed BICUM Brochure next time, and take the tests.
Complete the make-up reading.
or
See below (on this post) for your study guide materials.
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Vocabulary:
-- from dictionary.com |
Remember for BICUM: (Students each received a copy of this.)
Be able to tell which strategies you could at each step in the reading process.
Before
1. Self-Check
STUDY AREA, EMOTIONS, LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY,
FEELING PHYSICALLY
2. Preview
3. Select or create questions.
4. Set study length – time and amount.
During Reading
1. Be Active
check your alignment (where you're seeing it from) talk with the author or text visualize make connections predict infer pace yourself with your finger
2. Stop every once in awhile to check your understanding.
1. Check your Inner voice
2. Read it again
3. Read it out loud
4. Read ahead
5. Define words
6. Ask someone who would know
7. Add to your Background Knowledge
After Reading
1. Reduce
What did I learn?
Structure?
Central idea?
2. Organize for Recall
Outline
Notes
Summaries
Maps
3. Retain (Remember)
Teach
Groups
Recreate (write it)
Flash Cards
Mnemonics
Rehearse |
- Practice reducing and retaining by illustrating the items you need to know.
- Check off your drawings with the teacher. Use them to study for the test.
Peg System:
1. Bun – Picture a bun wrapping about 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."
2. Shoe – Picture a Bear wearing shoes – The right to bear arms.
3. Tree – It’s a quarter tree – You don’t have to quarter soldiers.
4. Door – You don’t have to let them in unless they have a valid search warrant. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5. Hive -- Bees are buzzing in your ears saying, “Tell us what you did! Admit you’re guilty!”
Freedom from self-incrimination (due process of law)
6. Sticks – Chasing the judge with sticks demanding the right to a speedy trial.
7. Heaven – Picture a jury box full of jurors up on a cloud (in heaven). This is the right to a trial by jury.
8. Gate – It would be cruel and unusual for someone to slam a person’s hand in a gate.
This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.
9. Line – Stand in the RIGHT line to get your Individual RIGHTS. Many individuals would be standing there.
10. Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS.
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| Student Example |
CRAAP
C = Currency -- How up-to-date is it?
R = Relevance -- Is it what I need or want? Does it help me?
A = Authority --
Who wrote or published this?
What makes them an expert?
R = Relevance -- Is it what I need or want? Does it help me?
A = Authority --
Who wrote or published this?
What makes them an expert?
A = Accuracy --
Is the information correct?
Can you verify it in more than one place?
Can you verify it in more than one place?
P = Purpose -- Why did they create this? to inform or teach? to persuade?
to sell? to entertain?
How biased is it?
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