Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Westward Expansion Inquiry: Teaching the Class!
Part of your final project is to teach the class the most important ideas you are learning about your topic. The goal is that all of you will have a more comoplete understanding of how the United States gained power and land in the 19th century as a result of the teaching performances.
What to think about for your teaching performance:
What to think about for your teaching performance:
- Vocabulary - Are there any terms the class will need to know / learn?
- People - Who are the main characters? What will you teach about them?
- Significance - What is important about your issue? Why should we learn about this?
- Geography - Where is everything taking place?
- Time Period - When is the action takin place?
Options for teaching performance:
You can choose from a number of ways to present your information:
- A skit that dramatizes the main action.
- A Powerpoint presentation that teaches and illustrates the main points
- Other ideas? Think about the lessons that work best for you!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
7th Grade Assignment: "My Reading Life"
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7th Grade Test Prep: How do I beat the multiple choice section?
As we discussed in class today there are THREE main points to keep in mind about the multiple choice section AKA Book 1.
POINT 1: Use your brain to THINK WHILE YOU READ. Practice all of those reading strategies you've learned through the years (like visualizing, predicting, re-reading, and so on). This also includes noticing the clues in each passage that help you (like the directions, sidebars, the title, pictures, etc...).
POINT 2: The questions are the thing! We will teach you strategies to help you "translate" test questions, which are written in "super-English" into "normal English." If you do not know what the question is asking, you can't answer it, can you?
POINT 3: You must go back to the text to find evidence for your answers. Always. You must.
You also came up with the following strategies/take aways:
POINT 1: Use your brain to THINK WHILE YOU READ. Practice all of those reading strategies you've learned through the years (like visualizing, predicting, re-reading, and so on). This also includes noticing the clues in each passage that help you (like the directions, sidebars, the title, pictures, etc...).
POINT 2: The questions are the thing! We will teach you strategies to help you "translate" test questions, which are written in "super-English" into "normal English." If you do not know what the question is asking, you can't answer it, can you?
POINT 3: You must go back to the text to find evidence for your answers. Always. You must.
You also came up with the following strategies/take aways:
- Jasmine learned that we should eliminate multiple choice answers that don't make sense.
- Sydney learned how to re-read the passage to make sure her answers are correct and to make sure that the answers are coming from the passage.
- Joslyn learned that she needs to look at key words in the question to match to the text and to the answers.
- Christian and Dilon know they want to get better at reading questions more carefully.
- For Djasia reading the questions first is helpful.
8th Grade Test Prep: How do I do well on the multiple choice section?
As we discussed in class today there are THREE main points to keep in mind about the multiple choice section AKA Book 1.
POINT 1: Use your brain to THINK WHILE YOU READ. Practice all of those reading strategies you've learned through the years (like visualizing, predicting, re-reading, and so on). This also includes noticing the clues in each passage that help you (like the directions, sidebars, the title, pictures, etc...).
POINT 2: The questions are the thing! We will teach you strategies to help you "translate" test questions, which are written in "super-English" into "normal English." If you do not know what the question is asking, you can't answer it, can you?
POINT 3: You must go back to the text to find evidence for your answers. Always. You must.
Other take-aways you noted today:
POINT 1: Use your brain to THINK WHILE YOU READ. Practice all of those reading strategies you've learned through the years (like visualizing, predicting, re-reading, and so on). This also includes noticing the clues in each passage that help you (like the directions, sidebars, the title, pictures, etc...).
POINT 2: The questions are the thing! We will teach you strategies to help you "translate" test questions, which are written in "super-English" into "normal English." If you do not know what the question is asking, you can't answer it, can you?
POINT 3: You must go back to the text to find evidence for your answers. Always. You must.
Other take-aways you noted today:
- Eliminating really bad answers from multiple choices improves our chances of choosing the right answer.
- Sometimes we just won't know what a word means in an answer choice. We can look carefully at the word to see if there is a smaller part of it we recognize or know. If that does not help, we can use the process of elimination to help us make a best guess.
- Some questions repeat a passage from the text and ask us to study them for what the author is doing. In these cases we have to check each answer choice to see if it makes sense.
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