For this week’s topic of choice app Jess and I used target planners, and Marcia used T notes. I used target planners for my CFS 388 and Math 121 courses. I really like using target planners because they keep me organized. It also forces me to start an assignment or begin studying for a test in advance. They benefit me because they keep me on schedule so I’m not cramming the night before. I am going to continue using target planners in all of my courses. Marcia used the T notes in her PHI 107 class. She put the argument for a theory on one side and had an example on the other side. It was helpful for her because it created a great study tool by having the theory and the example. It helped clarify the theories because there is an example right next to it. Marcia would use this note taking strategy again in her PHI 107 class as well as in MAT 183 for formulas. Jess used that target planner for her COU 101 class because she loves how organized it keeps her. It helps to divide up what she needs to do for a major project. She has a project in the class due on Tuesday, so the target planner helped her to organized when she would complete each part of the project. Overall, these strategies helped us to say organized and on schedule. 

Target Planner

t notes

Argument	Example
Argument by Analogy: X’s has property P. Y’s are relatively like X’s.  THEREFORE: Y’s have property P. Argument by the best explanation: I observe phenomena Z. The best explanation for why I would observe phenomena Z is that Y exists. THEREFORE: Y exists.	Argument by Analogy: I feel pain when I get stung by  bee. 2)You are relatively like me. THEREFORE: You must feel pain when you get stung by a bee.  Argument by the best explanation: I observe you screaming when you get stung by a bee. The best explanation for why I observe that behavior in those circumstances is that you have a mind. THEREFORE: You have a mind.

Reading strategy documentation

reading documentation

My Poem Reads Dandy:

read Death of a Salesman

Measure: -38 pages

         -can read 15 pages at a time

    -read first 15 pages on the 12th, next 15 on the 13th, the remaining 8 pages on the 15th

Preview: It is a play so there is no preview necessary

Read: Stayed on schedule

Draw: 

Question	Answer
What was the importance of DOAS?	It redefined American theatre
What is the ?	Tragedy
Who is the author	Arthur Miller
What 3 tools did the author use in writing DOAS?	Expressionism, stream-of-consciousness, naturalism

Reading

This week we focused on strategies that would help us on reading assignments. Julie and Jessica both tried the X minute reading strategy and found it very helpful. Julie used it for her Health and Wellness 121 course and liked this strategy because it helped her focus on the main ideas of the text. It helped her see the important parts of the readings in an organized way and she will continue to use this strategy in future classes. Jessica used the X minute reading strategy in her CRS 183 course. She also found it very helpful to pick out the most important information. It also helped her to see what the professor might as on the final exam. I used the My Poem Reads Dandy strategy in my DRA 115 course. I found this strategy very helpful because when I read I have trouble paying attention to what I am reading. This strategy allowed me to take brakes in the reading so I was able to refocus and pay attention when I was reading. The graphic organizer at the end helped me to prepare for the exam because I was able to look back at it later. 

This week in our CLS class, our goal was to find strategies dealing with note taking. Marcia used the 1 Plus 3 strategy for her DRA 105 and PHI 107 courses. Julie also used the 1 plus 3 notes for her Wellness 121 and CFS 388 classes. Both of them found this strategy to be very helpful, however Marcia found the graphic organizer to not help her as much as she had hoped.  However, both girls would definitely use this strategy again and found it very helpful in breaking down the main ideas and topics.  I (Jessica) used plug- in notes to help me with my CRS 183 class.  I felt plug in notes to be the most sufficient and beneficial note taking strategy for this topic.   Since this class is idea based there are a lot of terms and pictures in helping to describe ideas.  The plug in notes allowed me to add these visuals in my notes.  I would definitely use this strategy again.

Documentation- Notes