APELC Class Notes

We reviewed culture, a little, today before I began to present on Bloom’s cognitive taxonomy, a useful way of classifying how we think that you’ll become very familiar with over the course of the year.

In fourth period, Eli implicitly observed in a questions similarities between analysis and synthesis. I explained that, for our purposes, the former will primarily involve working with evidence within the boundaries of a text while the latter will involve bringing in other information to inform judgments that’ll lead to well-founded evaluation. The difference between analysis and synthesis can be confusing, but we’ll learn to live with that and other ambiguities. Perhaps read the Wikipedia entry on “Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy” for more on the issues surrounding this critical thinking measuring tool.

We’ll apply the taxonomy to various text next time we meet in class, and you’ll also receive your scored timed-writings.

See you then.

August 16, 2010 | Filed Under AP Language

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