How can I study and prepare for classes successfully? (Day 2) Daily Plans: Thursday, 22 January

Happy Thursday AVID Buddies!
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Homework: 

1. Sign up for remind!
2. Work on your assignments for Coach B!
3. Check your study calendar!

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Big Idea: Change

Essential Question: How can I study and prepare for classes successfully?

Objectives: I can…

...write a scene using elements of magical realism.
...review the importance of revisiting notes.
...list effective ways for me to study.
...create a study tool.

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1) Warm Up: Magically Real, Really Magical (1:30)

1. Your father drags you to the grocery store. You are incredibly bored until... (Add a magical element and tell a story!)
2. Write (or type in an email) until I say stop.
3. On your sticky note, write your name and predominant learning style (VARK).

2) Literacy Block: Dr. Pauk's Letter and Ebbinghaus's Curve of Forgetting (1:55)

1. Before you read: 
1. List the steps to the Cornell process and why you think each is important. 
2. Share out ways you revisit notes and ideas in classes.
2. While you read: 
1. Mark the text: 
1. Highlight in one color the different steps of the Cornell note process.
2. Highlight in another color the main purpose of asking questions.
3. Highlight in a third color the goal of a summary.
4. Put checks if you agree with a part, Xs if you disagree, and question marks if you need clarification.
2. Chunk it! Draw lines where one section stops and another begins.
3. After you read:
1. Next to your highlighted marks, rank yourself (1 = lost, 4 = boss!).
2. For the area you rank weakest, work with a nieghbor to add a HOT question.
3. Write a summary.
4. Add this to your TOC and binder!

3) Lesson Plan: Studying and Learning Styles (2:25)

1. See if you can sketch the Curve of Forgetting from memory. Today we will look at a slightly different version.
2. Get into your learning styles group.
3. List strategies that help you remember material. Use the resources below for ideas:
1. Study Tips for Different Learning Styles
2. Learning Styles Study Tips
3. Study/Test Tips for all Types of Learners 
4. Categorize your list of strategies for remembering onto the repititions on your Curve of Forgetting.
5. Then, make a study tool for the class you struggle with most.
1. Example:  I am a visual learner taking AFM.
1. Study tool one: Go through my notes from the semester and color code pertinent information using a highlighter.  I will also make a key for what each of the colors mean.  (Then I would actually go through my notes and do this.)
2. Study tool two: I will re-write a section of my notes that I do not fully understand.  However, as I re-write the notes, I will add pictures and make connections.

4) Success Workshop: ACA Focus Time! (2:45)

1. Work on your Learning Styles Forum for Coach B.
1. Point: I enjoy ____ class and am weak in classes that require me to ____ because my learning style is _____.
1. Example: I enjoy English and am weak in classes that require me to throw things because my learning style is verbal.
2. Example: Describe a time you showed strength in a class.
3. Example: Describe a time you showed weakness in a class.
4. Elaboration: Relate both to your learning style.
5. Analysis: Why does knowing your learning style matter?
2. Use the feedback I gave you on your notes and binders to make revisions to your organization.
3. Work on work for another class.

5) Exit Ticket: Add your returned work to your binder and TOC.
****************************Homework: 

1. Sign up for remind!
2. Work on your assignments for Coach B!
3. Check your study calendar!