APELC Class Notes
Period 4, we covered the same ground as your peers yesterday. Check their notes for objectives and details.
All APELCers pay close attention to the following clarification on your notes.
Each topic each day merits its own sheet of notes. For example, the most recent language (discourse and grammar) topic and the Brady piece each should have been done on separate sheets of paper. Ideally, you’re taking notes on any reading you’re doing outside of class in addition to answering the assigned questions. They don’t have to be extensive or comprehensive, but you’ll already have begun a sheet that you’ll add to next class from our discussion of the piece and your answers.
During class, you should be noting any corroborative, contradictory, or alternative, sound or ridiculous, pertinent or frivolous (and so on) ideas shared by your classmates. Also note any thoughts or questions that come to you as I lecture or we discuss as a class or you discuss in pairs or groups. These’ll help you when you review later.
Each class night, you should spend twenty or so minutes reviewing your notes from the day. Following the protocol as it’s laid out in “How to Do Homework When You Have No Specific Assignment” (a misleading name which I’ll change to be more clear), begin by highlighting your existing notes from that day (step 1). Grouping and labeling (steps 2 and 3), questioning (step 4), clarifying (step 5), and comparing (step 6) should be done on a new sheet of paper. You don’t have to copy all of your notes down verbatim on the new review sheet; abbreviations are fine but you should be thorough.
Add the review sheet(s) your note set when you’re done. Place the review sheet in your binder right after its associated highlighted note set. This way you can easily refer to your dated note sets, and I can simply ask for a set and accompanying review from a particular class to examine. For example, I can ask you on any given day for a note set and review from the last class―thus on a Tuesday or Wednesday, I can ask you for notes from Monday, and so on. It’s in your best interest therefore to make sure you’re reviewing your notes regularly as you don’t want to get caught off guard when I ask for them.
Next class (Thursday, August 28, and Friday, August 29) I’ll ask you only for your notes from last (not all of your notes from the beginning of the year, only your notes and review of the language topic and the Brady piece).
I may ask for a note set and review at any time in the future now that we’re clear (?) on the procedure, and since notes are worth 10% of your grade, I’ll ask often enough to make it worth your while to do them and well.
Until we see each other again, keep highlighting!
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