English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen 1) practiced taking notes, and 2) read independently for a sustained period.
First period, some of you came with your notes already complete and others came with work yet to do, which was fine since I was a little forgiving on this first lengthy assignment. And I do mean lengthy, as Ashley commented that it took more than hour or two to complete the work. All of you turned in your note sets and we finished the hour reading.
The note-taking task’ll become easier to engage and quicker for you to complete as time passes, but I promise that if you complete the study notes assignments as I’ve laid out you’ll be note-taking, critical-comprehending machines by the end of the year.
One adjustment I made to the note-taking activity already is this: If you have a series of small paragraphs, or a small paragraph sandwiched between to long paragraphs, or some other similar situation that would warrant it, you may write one summary sentence or identify the main idea for multiple paragraphs. Be judicious though; I still expect one summary or identification for bigger paragraphs, but you may summarize multiple small pieces of text as one and your idea should be thorough.
There is no homework for the weekend (a rare occurrence), and we’ll pick up with the questions and answers I asked you to begin three days ago four days from now.
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