Thursday, November 29, 2018

Thursday, November 29, 2018



Announcements and Reminders  Thursday, November 29, 2018:
          
During  Reading --   Be Active --  (predictions/inferences, and other strategies for During Reading)   -- Check for Understanding 
November 20 --  
During Reading --Strategies -- Predicting   
November 27 --  During Reading -- Strategies     
                  After Reading -- Reduce --  (Patterns, Highlighting, and Mind Mapping)  

November 29 --  After Reading -- Retain --   Mnemonics  -- Use the loci system to learn the first ten U.S. Presidents.  (If time, fix-up strategies)
December 3 --  During Reading -- 
fix-up strategies  -- RI = Reading Inventory 
After Reading -- Retain -- Use  flashcards  to study CRAAP, Bill of Rights, first ten presidents-   
  
December 5 -- Practice using Metacognition online  -- Why not Wikipedia?
December 7 --  
Practice using Metacognition  with an article
December 11 -- Strategy review
December 13 --  
Final Test --  Turn in BICUM Brochure
December 17 --
Readathon and Test make-up, if needed
              Bring treats, if you wish, to the Readathon.                        



Targets for Today:

 I can read for enjoyment.
  I can read fluently.
 I know strategies to use after reading to retain (remember) the information. 



Today’s  Agenda  Thursday, November 29, 2018:

1. Individual reading. 
How is your STUDY AREA for reading now? 
How are you feeling EMOTIONALLY? 
What is the LEVEL of Difficulty of the book or other text you're reading?
How are you FEELING physically?

Fill out your reading log. 
Example  

11-29-18
 x



The House with a Clock in Its Walls, pp. 160-18020

 If you're absent, or were off-task during reading time, or didn't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

2. Partner Fluency Practice.  
     Participate appropriately as both reader and listener. 
     Fill out your fluency graph for each time you read.
Today we are using " ."
Example
Date
11-29-18
11-29-18

Passage
##

Words Per Minute
125 (your own WPM)
135   (your own WPM)


Don't neglect to fill out your graph. Your passage number is in the upper right corner of  the page. 


Mnemonics 

Rehearse! 

Remembering/Retaining Information
          Using the LOCI method.  



How to Improve Your Memory   
BY RICHARD C. MOHS     The Method of Loci 
 https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm
     This method works especially well if you're good at visualizing. Here's how it works:
    Think of a place you know well, such as your own house.
   Visualize a series of locations in the place in logical order. 
For example, picture the path you normally take in your house to get from the front door to the back door. 
Begin at the front door, 
go through the hall, 
turn into the living room, 
proceed through the dining room 
and into the kitchen, and so on. 
As you enter each location, move logically and consistently in the same direction, from one side of the room to the other. Each piece of furniture could serve as an additional location.
     Place each item that you want to remember at one of the locations.
    When you want to remember the items, simply visualize your house and go through it room by room in your mind. Each item that you associated with a specific location in your house should spring to mind as you mentally make your way through your home.

Here's how it would work if you wanted to remember the following shopping list:
shaving cream
peaches
hot dogs
ketchup
ice cream

      As you visualize your house, imagine spraying shaving cream all over the front door. Don't just imagine the word "shaving cream." Really see it as you depress the nozzle and spray the foam all over the front door. Try to imagine the smell of the shaving cream, as well.
     Now open the door, enter the hall, and imagine a giant peach rolling down the steps in the front hall and heading right for you. Now walk into the living room, and visualize a six-foot-tall hot dog in a bun wearing a cowboy hat and lounging by the fireplace. Enter the dining room and picture a bottle of ketchup, dressed in an old-fashioned maid's uniform, setting the table. Finally, go to the kitchen and picture a gallon of ice cream, melting as it slaves over a hot stove.
     After you've visually placed all your list items around the house, when you try to remember your shopping list, all you have to do is visualize your front door. 
You will instantly see the shaving cream; 
as you enter the hall, the peach will pop into your mind; and so on. 
The more outrageous and unusual you make your mental images, the easier you'll find it is to remember them.

     You can use this method to remember lists of items, important points in a speech, names of people at an event or meeting, things you need to do, even a thought you want to keep in mind. This method works well because it changes the way you remember, so that you use familiar locations to cue yourself about things. Because the locations are organized in an order that you know well, one memory flows into the next very easily.


For our activity, you will combine the loci method with making associations with familiar information. 
"Fieldtrip"   
At each sign, get the information for your worksheet, but also pay attention to the location and to the images you are asked to create in your mind.  
Be on task, visit the posters IN ORDER, and return to the classroom as soon as you have finished.


The First Ten Presidents of the United States of America
Look for a clue to the next location on each poster.  The first location is provided for you.



The President’s Name  (in chronological order) and years served
The location where I found it and the image to visualize
1.  
At the front entrance to the school – just outside.  Look at the windows at the left side as you face out.  They are counseling office windows.
(counselors washing a ton of laundry)
2
(location and image)
3
(location and image)
4
(location and image) (mad at his son)
(the rest is not shown.)



BICUM Brochure -- 
On the final test:  Know what BICUM stands for, know and use the SELF Check, and know strategies you can use before reading, during reading, and after reading.          



 Your Brochure: Inside
 --- Last time we filled  in the middle section.



Before Reading

Complete a
Self Check 

Study Area 

Emotions

Level of 

Difficulty

Feeling physically 



Preview

1. Read the title.


(and headings)
Ask:
What do I know about this subject?



What does background mean?

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.

(also illustrations -- Read the captions.)


5. Ask:  Is this a reliable and useful source? 
Use ABC's or CRAAP Test if needed.

6. Select or 


Create Questions

(Set Purpose!)

7. Set Study Length and place check marks.


During Reading

Be Active


➨"Talk" with the author or text.

➨Visualize.

➨ Make Predictions

     1) predict
2) read
3) check
4) compliment or correct   
 

Make Inferences.

Read between the lines. 


➨ Pace yourself with a pencil, or better yet, with your finger.

➨ Make Connections!
     

Text to Self
     

Text to Text
     

Text to World

Stop every once in awhile to 


check your understanding.


Yes, I do 

understand.

Mark and highlight 
text.

Read to end of study block.
 No, I don't 

understand

Use fix-up strategies:
See the back of this brochure!











If You Were Absent:

See above and complete the reading make-up assignment. 


Vocabulary:
 mnemonic -- a memory aide -- something to help you remember
 loci -- a mnemonic using locations you know well
 peg system -- a mnemonic using numbers and words that rhyme with them. 


 Help and Enrichment 


Try using the Loci system to memorize the first ten Presidents of the United States.


PresidentPartyTerm as PresidentVice-President
1. George Washington (1732-1799)None, Federalist1789-1797John Adams
2. John Adams (1735-1826)Federalist1797-1801Thomas Jefferson
3. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)Democratic-Republican1801-1809Aaron Burr, George Clinton
4. James Madison (1751-1836)Democratic-Republican1809-1817George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry
5. James Monroe (1758-1831)Democratic-Republican1817-1825Daniel Tompkins
6. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)Democratic-Republican1825-1829John Calhoun
7. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)Democrat1829-1837John Calhoun, Martin van Buren
8. Martin van Buren (1782-1862)Democrat1837-1841Richard Johnson
9. William H. Harrison (1773-1841)Whig1841John Tyler
10. John Tyler (1790-1862)

Our Mini-Field-Trip: 

  1. George Washington   (Counseling office -- picture the counselors washing a ton of clothes)
  2. John Adams       (Financial office -- picture Mrs. Cleveland adding up money -- she add'ems)
  3. Thomas Jefferson    (Attendance office -- A man named Jeff is picking up his son.)
  4. James Madison    (Main office -- A man is  mad at his son because the son was sent to the office.)
  5. James Monroe  (Commons area -- a mon/man is rowing a rowboat across the commons.)
  6. John Q. Adams  (Math wing --  Your math teacher add'ems up the numbers.)
  7. Andrew Jackson   (Doors out of the math wing -- You are playing jacks with Jack's son.)
  8. Martin VanBuren   (The windows of the principal's office -- You turn around and see a suspicious van in the parking lot.)
  9. William H. Harrison  (The caveman mural -- A caveman would have a hairy son.)
  10. John Tyler  (Near Mr. Moon's and Mr. Houle's classrooms --They sometimes wear ties.)  

Loci is from the same root as Location.  

Select a place that you know well, and as you move through it in your mind, place the items you are learning, or a representation of each, in specific places.  

Here is another loci set -- 

For instance, for learning the first few Presidents of the United States,  imagine walking into your house. 

For me, as I walk in through the side door, 

1)  I first see my kitchen, and there is George Washington washing my dishes.  

2) I walk into the front hall, and there is  a man with a large Adam's apple --John Adams.  

3) I turn into the living room, and there is Thomas Jefferson, inventing and drawing plans for a building (he was an inventor and architect).  

4) As I walk up the stairs, on the stairs I see a bunch of boxes of Dolly Madison cakes.   (James Madison was the next president.) 
5)  Then I look into the bedroom, and there on the bed is Marilyn Monroe.  (James Monroe is the fifth president.
6)  In bathroom is a man rinsing off his hands in the sink.  (Rinsey rhymes with Quincy) who asks me, "Did you see my dad in the hall downstairs?"   This is the son of John Adams -- John Quincy Adams.

7. In the next bedroom, there is the Jackson Five, singing “I’ll Be There.”   

8. In the third bedroom I see a bureau (chest of drawers), 
with Martin Van Buren filling the drawers with his Doc Martens.


9.  As I walk back downstairs, and on down the next set of stairs, there in the family room is my son, repairing my computer  (which is what he often does), but today he is a "hairy son."  He has let his hair grow out, and his beard grow long.  (William H. Harrison)

10.  In the laundry room, my daughter is tying clothes together for John Tyler.  

And that's the first ten presidents.