Learning Log

1.     Today in class we first checked if we have gotten responses from our responses to the Morris Ward News Blog (which we haven’t yet).And if you still haven’t posted your response to the Morris Ward you were supposed to have by now. Remember if you want you can check the Morris Ward to see if they have responded to you yet, their responses should be commented on our comments. Then we learned about a new way to take notes. This new way is called Cornell note taking. Cornell note taking is when you create a t-chart, and one side is slimmer than the other. On one side of the t-chart the title is main ideas and the title of the other side of the t-chart is Details. Then you write down your main ideas on one side and briefly describe it on the other. After we learned about a new not taking method we finished the note taking practice we did on Wednesday from the Pathways textbooks. If you haven’t finished you have to go to flextime to finish it. At the very end of class Ms.Lees gave us our novel that we are gonna be reading. If you don't know whta I mean by novel I mean the assesment we did in class the other day were we rated different books and told Ms.Lees our favourites on paper.

2.     We did these activities today to learn new ways to take notes and find a way that we feel most comfortable and understand the most when taking notes. We need to find a good way to take notes for studying for test or just our general work. My favorite note taking strategy is the normal bullet note taking.

3.     These skills could help you in every subject you are in. For example for math or science when you have a test coming up and you need to study, you will have notes. Or if you are in P.E. and you want to go home and do some exercise that you learned in class, but you can’t remember what it is, you can write it down. Or if you need to remember an appointment or anything in that matter, you can just write it down.

4.     Today’s homework was just to remember to check and make sure everyone is posting on your blog and to check your timeline of your genius hour. And if you still haven’t finished notes from the Pathways, you have to go to flextime. The notes were supposed to be taken on pages 9-20 with normal bullet notes, page 21-30 which was webbed notes and page 31 which was the new Cornell style.

5.     A tip to help you with your homework is to set goals for you genius hour project and ask your peers for their opinions. Also, when you are taking notes remember it’s just a brief easy note of what the textbook says. Not word for word or a whole sentence long.