Monday, May 15, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           Pick up your composition book. Begin individual reading. The rest of our schedule: 11.   May 15 -- After Reading:  Remembering  12.   May 17 -- More remembering and Review for tests   -- See the lower part of this post for a summary of what you need to know. 13.  May  19 -- Final Tests on Strategies (BICUM), the content you memorized, and CRAAP -- Brochure due!    14.  May 23 -- Readathon -- Hand in unused hall passes.

Targets for Today: I can use strategies to focus and comprehend (understand) as I read and to remember after I read.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Pick up your folder. 2. Do a SELF Check:        Study area,       Emotions,      Level of difficulty (of the material you're reading), and how you're       Feeling physically.   3. Do individual reading.      Don't forget to fill out your log. Today is May 15. 4. Partner Fluency Practice.    Don't neglect to fill out your graph. Your passage number is in the upper right corner of  the page.  6.  Your BICUM Brochure -- Inside Right Section:  We added this last time.    Inside    (Added earlier) Before Reading Complete a Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of  Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? 2. Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. 3. Look for bold or italicized print. 4. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. 5. Ask yourself: "Is this a useful and reliable source?" 6. Select or Create Questions 7. Set Study Length 8. Place check marks (Added last time) During Reading Be Active Check your alignment. "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do  understand. Mark andhighlighttext. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't  understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure! (Add this today!) After Reading -- #1 REDUCE Post View Ask yourself -- *What did I learn from  reading this? *What patterns/overall structure did I notice? *What was the overall central idea? *Do I understand it all? If not, use fix-up strategies. Answer Questions Organize for  Recall (Select and Do 1) -- make outlines -- take notes -- write summaries -- create maps The mind likes to organize things in familiar patterns: Become familiar with text patterns and how to spot them, including sequence, chronological, cause and effect, comparison-contrast,  description, problem and solution, definition.  Just for fun:  And finally ----  Add this today Your Brochure: Outside  -- Left panel  After Reading -- #2 RETAIN (Remember) Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing (and drawing) Make Flash Cards Use mnemonics 1. Rhymes and Songs 2. Acronyms 3.  Acrostics 4. Mini-Stories 5. Picture Links  The Peg System Rehearse Continued from  DURING READING BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period]  Mnemonics 2017 Peg System Flashcards of time?

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:  Mnemonic: something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula. -- from dictionary.com

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.

Student Example

Bill of Rights - The Really Brief Version

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are summarized below.

Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 

1	Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
2	Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
3	No quartering of soldiers.
4	Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5	Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.
6	Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.
7	Right of trial by jury in civil cases.
8	Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
9	Other rights of the people.  Individual Rights
10	Powers reserved to the states.  State's Rights

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?

A = Accuracy -- 

Is the information correct?
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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Remember for BICUM TEST:  (Our Final Test)  Learn This for Your Final Test

(Know strategies to use for each step.)

Before

1. Self-Check

STUDY AREA, EMOTIONS, LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY, 

FEELING PHYSICALLY

2. Preview (How?)

3. Select or create questions.

4. Set study length – time and amount.

Know the steps and definitions in the CRAAP Test (for reliable and useful info.).

During Reading

1. Be Active (How?)

2. Stop every once in awhile to check your understanding.

If you do understand, go on reading.

If you don’t understand, use fix-up strategies

1.     Check your Inner voice.

2.     Read again

3.     Read out loud

4.     Read ahead

5.     Define words

6.     Ask

7.     Add to Background

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

Know the topics of the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution.