September 23, 2016 -- Friday

On the board:

Warm-up 

1. Using the Bridging the Gap, find out what the following words       mean:  schemata, metacognition  (without using your phone or a     dictionary)
2. Look at pages 35, 134, and 45 -- what is on those pages?
3. Look at the colorful boxes on pages 96, 101, and 103 in 
     Chapter 3 of Bridging the Gap



Note the following very important sentence on page 96:
"Like public speakers, textbook authors follow this rule: 'Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you've told them.' "


Note these important pages are you try to find out what words mean:
Glossary   page  593
Index        page 598
(These are very useful, along with the detailed Table of Contents at the beginning of the book)


Discussion of the organization of the article on Mme. C.J. Walker, the history selection for Chapter 3 of Bridging the Gap, on page 111.


By the way, who is Sandra Cisneros?  Nobody knew.  Try to find out!


Discussion of mnemonics and acronyms, how they are similar and how they are different.
Mnemonic, example:   FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine for leaning to read the treeble clef in music
Acronym:  NATO for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and NEA for National Endowment for the Arts


Visualization of information:  the food group pyramid


Remember that exercises 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 in Chapter 3 will be due on Monday


The class started to work on Powers, by Ursula LeGuin.  

We began by looking at the cover to see what information it might give us.

Then we looked at the maps inside -- unknown territory -- no Seattle, no Portland

Mrs. Kimmel read from pages 1-4.  Tyson wrote the following notes, showing how we should take notes as we read --

Forest, isolation teenager
location.  Rivers, mountains cities
Chapter 1
1. Sallo -- Sister      Brother -- Gavir
2. invasion?  soldiers?
3. other names -- Tib, Gammy, Yaven-di
4. Marsh people, fearsome?

If we put the book down at this point and come back to it later, we have notes to re-orient us to the story and remind us what has already happened.

Assignment is to read the first two chapters by Monday, pages 1 - 60 in Powers


Homework:
1.  exercises 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 in Chapter 3 of Bridging the Gap will be due on Monday
2. read the first two chapters of Powers by Monday, pages 1 - 60 in Powers