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Becoming a Better student

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?

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Becoming a Better student

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  1. 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?

  2. NOTE TAKING • 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/ http://www.csub.edu/~bruff/The%20Forgetting%20Curve.pdf

  3. Practice Note Taking Parts of Speech Noun – 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.

  4. Nouns • 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 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnXUWJz0sE

  5. Pronouns Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0 The “professional” noun – to replace your noun when it is too lazy to do the job

  6. Adjectives • Describenouns • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nuxeh4V1ng

  7. Adverbs • Describe Verbs or adjectives or other adverbs • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fXm4FOMPM

  8. Conjunction Joins words, phrases, sentences. • For • And • Nor • But • Or • Yet • So • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg

  9. Interjections • Sudden spoken interruption. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkAX7Vk3JEw

  10. Prepositions! • 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

  11. Prepositional Phrases • Prepositions tell where or how. • The subject is NEVERfound within the prepositional phrase.

  12. Verbs • Verbs : action, state of being, or occurrence • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4UtYNxZLg • Action Verb • Helper Verb • Linking Verb

  13. How to Find the Verb • Today she dances. • Yesterday she danced. • Tomorrow she will dance. • Verbs tell time • Test the sentence by adding Today, Yesterday, or tomorrow. • Notice: the verb is the word(s) that change endings!

  14. Action Verbs • Examples: • Arrive, leave, learn, write, open, write, teach • The woman studied ballet. • Tells what the subject is doing and when the action occurs.

  15. Linking Verbs • 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 • Links the subject of a sentence to one or more words that describe or identify the subject.

  16. Helping Verbs • 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. • 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.

  17. Finding Nouns – ways to categorize • Common • Name general things (not capitalized) • aunt • country • watch • Proper • Name particular persons, places, or things (caps) • Aunt Meriam • Nigeria • Timex Concrete Name things we can see or touch Face People JewelryWatch Abstract Things we cannot see or touch Loneliness Patriotism Beauty Time

  18. Practice • The morning of June 27 was sunny and clear. • The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. • The people of the village began to gather in the square • The lottery was conducted by Mr. Sommers. • The jovial man had time and energy to devote to civic activities.

  19. Pronounstake the place of nouns • Replace the underlined word(s) with a pronoun. • The crowd arrived early. • The gym was noisy. • People waited eagerly. • Coach Ann Bradwayhad not lost a game… • Steven and I found the best seats in the front row. • Not one person could predict the outcome. They arrived early It 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.

  20. Race • 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.

  21. Notes Review & Assignment • 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

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