Thursday, February 16 learning log

What we did today:

Today, we had a substitute today for double block. She was very nice and kind and explained things very well. We started off by her explaining what we were to do for the day. It was really easy to understand since we did something like that in the past and that all the instructions were written on the whiteboard. Our in class work for the double block was to do note taking on “Manor Life” which was in page 49-53 in the Pathways book. We were told to use one of our best note taking skills which was either 1) An outline 2) Cornell 3) A web

Remember! Note taking should have enough information for you to understand and that it should not be too brief. Also, you don’t want to copy it word by word or else it would be called “plagiarism.” Finally you should title all the information that you are writing and also avoid writing words that could be removed from the sentence and make sense.

After we were finished the note taking, we had to do a Venn diagram that showed the comparison of women in the high middle ages and women today. The comparison could be of anything such as their rights, their jobs and how they were/are being treated.

Finally, if we finished all the note taking and the Venn diagram, we had the time to work on our chapter 8 There Will Be Wolves questions which will be due tomorrow.

Our class behaved quite well today since everyone finished the in class assignment.

Learning Intention:

The learning intention for doing note taking on “Manor Life” in the past was to let us improve our note taking skills such as the ability to identify the main ideas from the details. The learning intention was to also learn about the life of the Manors in the high middle ages. Did you know that writing things down helps many people memorize better? Well if you didn’t, now you know!

The learning intention for making a Venn diagram to compare women from the high middle ages to women today is to let us learn about the big difference between this large time period. Also, it helps us work on our comparison skills. For example, we worked on taking out the important ideas in the paragraphs and making it into a comparison from the things we know about women in the present time.

The learning intention for doing the chapter questions is to let us work on our skills for 1) including the question in our answer 2) grammar 3) supporting our answers with text info

Connections:

Working on note taking can save us lots of time when a test comes up, answering questions from watching a video, or a professor/ teacher giving you lots of information orally. It helps you to prepare for a test because if you use note taking, all the important information is in your notes so it saves you time from reading the unimportant things that are in the text.

Working on our comparison skills can help us decide on future things. For example, making a comparison is mainly based on two things and finding out which one of them is better, worth more, can help you benefit from something or just for learning.

Doing chapter questions can help us lots in our future work since we would have very detailed answers for our questions. These questions can be used for anything such as writing a resume or a report. Our answers would have many supporting ideas and includes the question or idea we are talking about.

Reflections:

Marvy- I understand the working on our note taking skills can help us save lots of time.

Marvy- I understand the comparison skills are used daily and if we improve them, we would benefit from the a lot.

Marvy- I understand that doing chapter questions can help us in our writing since we would have a habit of including the question/ idea in our answer, have support from the text and have less grammar issues.

Tips:

- If you are not finished your chapter 1-7 questions from There Will Be Wolves, you should go to flex or try to catch up as soon as possible

- You should review the things that you did in note taking today so you won’t forget easily

- If you want extra practice or a head start, you can start reading ch9 and finish the questions.

Homework:

Chapter 8 questions from There Will Be Wolves are due tomorrow.