becoming a better student
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Becoming a Better student. What if I told you that to become a better student , (and get better grades!!) you only needed to do one thing differently ? Would you do that one thing?. NOTE TAKING. What do you DO in class right now while the teacher is talking? While a Video is Playing? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Becoming a Better
student
What if I told you that to become a
better student, (and get better grades!!) you only needed to
do one thing differently? Would
you do that one thing?
What do you DO in class right now while the teacher is talking? While a Video is Playing?
Passive vs Active Learning Why Take Notes? Why not? http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/notemaker/
NOTE TAKING
http://www.csub.edu/~bruff/The%20Forgetting%20Curve.pdf
Practice Note TakingParts of SpeechNoun – Person, Place, Thing, or IDEA
- Examples: dog, door, beauty, time
- S: I ran a marathon to win a prize.
Verb – Action or State of Being
- Examples: run, running, ran, jumped
is, are was were, has have had, be
I was running to the store. I fell.
Nouns
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnXUWJz0sE
Nouns are People Places Things Ideas
They CAN be the subject of the sentence, but a sentence can have more nouns than just the subject
PronounsLink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0 The “professional” noun – to replace your noun when it is too lazy to do the job
Describe nouns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nuxeh4V1ng
Adjectives
Describe Verbs or adjectives or other adverbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fXm4FOMPM
Adverbs
Joins words, phrases, sentences.
For And Nor But Or Yet So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg
Conjunction
Sudden spoken interruption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkAX7Vk3JEw
Interjections
Prepositions! ◦ Show relationships◦ A preposition sits before a
noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun's relationship to another word in the sentence
◦ http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/prepositions.htm - more help
◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfExXGMX2JM
Prepositions!
Prepositions tell where or how.
The subject is NEVER found within the prepositional phrase.
Prepositional Phrases
Common Prepositions (pg 41)
about behind except onto toward into near
above below for out under of like
across beneath from outside into on within
after beside in over unlike at with
against between
Inside Past until as to
Verbs : action, state of being, or occurrence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4UtYNxZLg
Verbs Action Verb Helper Verb Linking Verb
Verbs tell time
◦ Test the sentence by adding Today, Yesterday, or tomorrow.
◦ Notice: the verb is the word(s) that change endings!
◦ Today she dances.◦ Yesterday she
danced.◦ Tomorrow she will
dance.
How to Find the Verb
Tells what the subject is doing and when the action occurs.
◦ Examples: Arrive, leave, learn,
write, open, write, teach
◦ The woman studied ballet.
Action Verbs
Links the subject of a sentence to one or more words that describe or identify the subject.
◦ Examples: Act, appear, become,
feel, get, grow, look, remain, seems, smells, sounds, tastes, turns
Be (am, is, are, was, were, has been, have been)
◦ She seems distracted
Linking Verbs
Combines with a main verb to form a verb phrase. It always comes before the main verb and expresses a special meaning or a particular time.
◦ Examples: Can, could, may,
might, must, shall, should, will
Being, been, am, is, was, are, were
Has, have, had Does, do, did
◦ He is sleeping◦ He might sleep◦ He should sleep. ◦ He could have been
sleeping.
Helping Verbs
Finding Nouns – ways to categorize
•ConcreteName things we can
see or touch• Face• People• Jewelry
Watch
Abstract Things we cannot see or touch
LonelinessPatriotismBeautyTime
Common◦ Name general things
(not capitalized) aunt country watch
Proper◦ Name particular persons,
places, or things (caps) Aunt Meriam Nigeria Timex
1. The morning of June 27 was sunny and
clear.
2. The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.
3. The people of the village began to gather in the square
4. The lottery was conducted by Mr. Sommers.
5. The jovial man had time and energy to devote to civic activities.
Practice
Replace the underlined word(s) with a pronoun.
1. The crowd arrived early.2. The gym was noisy.3. People waited eagerly.4. Coach Ann Bradway had not lost a game…5. Steven and I found the best seats in the
front row.6. Not one person could predict the outcome.
Pronouns take the place of nouns
They arrived earlyIt was noisy.
They waited eagerly.She had not lost a game yet this season.We found the best seats in the front row.No one could predict the outcome. Nobody could predict the outcome.
Draw a word from the word bag Identify part of speech Put it in the appropriate place
◦ If you are wrong, I won’t tell you where it goes, I’ll just say “WRONG!” and send you back to figure it out
◦ You may NOT use a dictionary, internet, or other resources. ONLY your notes.
Race
What do your notes look like? Circle/highlight, review/revise your notes. Review them once a day for 5 min
Assignment◦ Take notes in class (2 week)◦ Take notes on your reading (2 weeks)◦ Take notes on your research
If you learn to do this well, your grades will improve drastically
Notes Review & Assignment