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Wednesday, September 4

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Calendar Update #2-Discussion

    • My systems of time management ​

    • Check?!

  • Note-taking Workshop

  • History Quiz Workshop

  • Reminders

Today's Goal

Student Learning Outcome​

  • Reflect and integrate learning from learning community courses, including development of critical thinking skills, social and/or personal responsibility.

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Habit of Mind

  • Flexibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to recognize that conventions (such as formal and informal rules of content, organization, style, evidence, citation, mechanics, usage, register, and dialect) are dependent on discipline and context.

Calendar Update #2

Let's discuss the second update! 

  • Why did I have you do this? 

  • Why is this different from the original planner/calendar you selected?

  • Why should you try to use different tools to help you keep track of different aspects of your life?

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My systems of time management...

  • Online Calendar 

  • Bullet Journal 

  • GSD Lists

  • semester calendars

Note-Taking Workshop

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Let's practice note taking skills! 

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There are many different methods of taking notes during lecture and during reading. 

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  • Set up a sheet of paper with the outline above. Use your notes from the recent lecture. Take 15 mins to rewrite your notes for step 1. 

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  • Write at least 3 questions on the left hand side.

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If there is time: 

  • Work on Step 3 & 4 and do the summary at the very end of the page. 

  • My challenge to you: everyday before you go to sleep, review notes from that day. This helps you retain information to be more efficient. 

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Let's Discuss..

  • What is useful? 

  • What isn't? 

  • Perhaps, taking notes like this isnt the right fit for Sociology. What class/classes do you think you could use this for? 

  • How are you actively learning and interacting with the notes?

  • How do I take notes?

History Quiz Workshop

Exam Prep time!

  • When preparing for the exam, and the matching/fill in the blank sections portions of your exam, you will need to define and discuss key terms and ideas to do well on those sections. You will also need to incorporate the definitions of key terms to support your discussion of the essay prompt.

  • To help you do this, try this approach.

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There are basically four elements of identifying a historical person, place, issue, or event:

  1. Identification (who/what?)

  2. .Time period (when?)

  3. Location (where?)

  4. Significance (why is this important?)

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The most difficult part of this (in my opinion) is the why, or the significance. There are lots of different ways a person or event (or concept) can be significant. Here are some questions to ask yourself when trying to figure out WHY something is significant:

  • Did it cause something to happen? What resulted BECAUSE of it?

  • Is it an example of an activity that was going on? Does it represent an idea or practice of the time period? (In other words, what does it tell us about this time/place in American history?)

  • Was it the first/last time for something to occur in American history?

  • Was it something that failed, thus leading to another approach being taken?

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Adapted from Professor Marquez! Tell her thank you!

Reminders...

  • Blue Books are due by September 16th!

  • Read: What should you be reading for Friday's History lecture?

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  • I will be going through your Calendar Update #1 in the next day or so. 

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  • Email me or come by and see me if you have any questions! My email is bernadette.flores@tamucc.edu. Where can you find my Student Visiting Hours or Writing Center hours?

  • Thursday, September 5: I will not be able to be at my Student Visiting Hours on Thursday at 12-1pm. However, I will be there at 1pm for those who wanted to come by...All of my other visiting hours will remain as is.

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