2 more thinking skill challenges...

1.  No Journal-  Groups and quiz...

2.  Attendance-

Inference.

1.  Attendance.

2.  Journal/question switch.

Please read the following short poems by Robert Frost and Sara Teasdale, respectively.  Choose one and, using your thinking skills, explain what you think it means and why you think what you think it means.  :)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


Let It Be Forgotten

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,

   Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,

Let it be forgotten for ever and ever,

   Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

If anyone asks, say it was forgotten

   Long and long ago,

As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall

   In a long forgotten snow.

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3.  Inference tests....  Number 1-  in groups.

Babe Smith has been killed. Police have rounded up six suspects, all of whom are known gangsters. All of them are known to have been near the scene of the killing at the approximate time that it occurred. All had substantial motives for wanting Smith killed. However, one of these suspected gangsters, Slinky Sam, has positively been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  1.                  Slinky Sam is known to have been near the scene of the killing of Babe Smith.

T  F  ?  2.                  All six of the rounded-up gangsters were known to have been near the scene of the murder.

T  F  ?  3.                  Only Slinky Sam has been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  4.                  All six of the rounded-up suspects were near the scene of Smith's killing at the approximate time that it took place.

T  F  ?  5.                  S. The police do not know who killed Smith.

T  F  ?  6.                  All six suspects are known to have been near the scene of foul deed.

T  F  ?  7.                  Smith's murderer did not confess of his own free will.

T  F  ?  8.                  Slinky Sam was not cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  9.                  It is known that the six suspects were in the vicinity of the cold-blooded assassination.

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   A businessman had just turned off the lights in the store when a man appeared and demanded money. The owner opened a cash register. The contents of the cash register were scooped up and the man sped away. A member of the police force was notified promptly.

           

T  F  ?  1.                  A man appeared after the owner had turned off his store lights.

T  F  ?  2.                  The robber was a man.

T  F  ?  3.                  The man who appeared did not demand money.

T  F  ?  4.                  The man who opened the cash register was the owner.

T  F  ?  5.                  The store-owner scooped up the contents of the cash register and ran away.

T  F  ?  6.                  Someone opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  7.                  After the man, who demanded the money, scooped up the contents of the cash register, he ran away.

T  F  ?  8.                  While the cash register contained money, the story does not state how much.

T  F  ?  9.                  The robber demanded money of the owner.

T  F  ?  10.              The robber opened the cash register.

T  F  ?  11.              After the store lights were turned off a man appeared.

T  F  ?  12.              The robber did not take the money with him.

T  F  ?  13.              The robber did not demand money of the owner.

T  F  ?  14.              The owner opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  15.              The age of the store-owner was not revealed in the story.

T  F  ?  16.              Taking the contents of the cash register with him, the man ran out of the store.

T  F  ?  17.              The story concerns a series of events in which only three persons are referred to: the owner of the store, a man who demanded money. and a member of the police force.

T  F  ?  18.              The following events were included in the story: someone demanded money. a cash register was opened, its contents were scooped up, and a mall dashed out of the store.

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HW-  Read Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan and create 10 TS questions for another in class to answer.

HW-  Finish the first inference test we didn't complete in class (STORY A).   To access it, please click here.

Interview Presentations...

1.  Attendance.

2.   Journal- 

When have you inferred something based upon appearance?  Were you correct?  Were you not?  Are facts true?

3.  Interview presentations.

4.  HW-  Read this poem and create 10 thinking skill questions for another to answer.

Thnking Skills Cont.

Journal-

 

What does what you’ve learned about your mind tell you about the world you perceive?  

 

Analyze-  To determine the nature and parts.

 

Compare-  Point out similarities.

 

Contrast- Point out the differences.

 

Clarify-  To make clear

 

Connect-  To place in relation to something else

 

Distinguish-  Contrasting two things.

 

Elaborate- To tell more about.

 

Evaluate-  Determining the worth.

 

Explain-  To make understandable.

 

Predict-  To point out a future occurrence.

 

Summarize- To tell a short version

 

Infer-  To determine based on evidence.

 

Identify-  To name or recognize.

 

Interpret- To put in other words.

 

Synthesize-  To put together or combine.

HW-  Using 5 different terms, create 5 interview questions for another student in class

Thinking Skills Intro-

1.  Attendance-

1.2.  HW?  Friday is good too...

2.  Long journal, with quizzes and experiments-

What did you learn about your perception of the world from what we just completed?

3.  Thinking Skills notes...

4.  HW-  Questions for partner interviews.

Welcome

Welcome to Class!

1.  Class procedures...  Attendance



2.  Journal: (We start with one every class.  At least 1/2 a page, please.)




When you're taking a new class, it's a good idea to think about what you want out of that class.  What do you want out of this one?


3.  Syllabus and books...  (legal stuff)  





4.  Diagnostic Essay... "The Art of Authorship" by  Mark Twain  

      Please read the following essay and respond to these questions:

1.  What is Mark Twain claiming about writing or his writing process?
2.  Do you agree or disagree and why?

  Please be sure to write an essay in response that offers your potential reader a beginning, middle and end.


5.  Homework-  Return with your typed essay in MLA format.


6.   Homework... Follow this link and complete the "Improving Information Literacy Skills" tutorial provided by our excellent library.  Please print out your final score and bring it to class.



7.  Homework:   Please return with the last page of the syllabus signed.