1. Journal:
Write about a time when you believed something to be true, absolutely true, and then you found out you were wrong. What happened? Why didn't you see it coming?
1.2. Thinking Skills quiz...
2. Thinking Skills Notes.... Practice....
3. Groups and Interviews.
4. Presentations.... Only a few. If you're lucky you'll get called. :)
5. Homework.
Reading Assignment- For this assignment, you have to read the attached essay and create 10 questions or writing prompts that utilize 10 different thinking skills.
EX: 1. Identify the narrator.
2. Connect this story with one of your own experiences....
6. Homework:
Create a blog on www.blogger.com and introduce yourself. Please take time to design your blog the way you would like it. Ask yourself 5 thinking skill questions and answer them on the blog. Be ready to present your thinking skill questions, blog, and self-interview to the class next time we meet.
Thinking Skills Definitions:
Analyze:
To
determine the nature and parts…
Compare:
To
point out similarities
Contrast: To point out differences
Connect: To place in relationship to something
else
Clarify: To make clear
Distinguish:
To determine the differences
between two things.
Elaborate: To
provide greater detail and length.
Explain: To
make understandable
Evaluate: To
determine the worth.
Infer: To
determine based on evidence
Identify: To
name
Define: To
determine the essential qualities of something.
Predict: To
point out a future occurrence.
Interpret: To
tell in other words
Summarize: To
tell a short version
Synthesize: To
combine into something new.
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