Study Skills 94/J. Roth WINTER QUARTER 2011 TENTATIVE Beginning Calendar
Effective
February 3
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MONDAY |
TUESDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
THURSDAY |
FRIDAY |
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3 Course Introduction and Syllabus For tomorrow,
please consider Why
are you here? What are your
expectations and hopes? |
4 Introduction
to the Web Reading
Baseline Exercise For tomorrow, please think of something that
would surprise us if we knew it about you. |
5
Introduction to
Effective Reading, Please
have read pp. 7-10 in the first-day handout A
pop quiz? Introductions (Something that would surprise us if
we knew it about you) |
6
Continue Introduction
to Effective Reading, Please
have read pp. 7-10 in the Course Packet Assign
the Scavenger
Hunt, pp. 102-103 in the Course Packet Introductions (Something that would surprise us if
we knew it about you) |
7 Today,
please meet me in the classroom right at 8:30 or in Computer Lab 1220-G for a
brief orientation. Computer
Lab Log In Help and instructions. |
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10
Peach Book Day—please bring your Peach Book and your Course Packet to class. Begin your
20-minutes-a-day reading practice. Assign the Learning Styles
Questionnaire, pp. 84-92 in our Course Packet |
11
Goal Setting Introductions (Something that would surprise us if
we knew it about you) Bring
your completed Learning
Styles Questionnaire, (pp. 84-92 in our Course Packet) to the beginning
of class |
12
Please have read The Curve
of Forgetting, pp. 15-18 in the Course Packet A
Pop Quiz? Assign Learning
Styles Writing Assignment, p. 99 in the Course Packet Announce
Optional Learning
Styles Bonus Assignment for bonus points |
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Goals due at
the beginning of class. (P. 101 in our course packet) More
on the The Curve of Forgetting, pp. 15-18 in the Course
Packet To-Do
List ·
Learning
Styles Writing Assignment 1/20 ·
Learning
Styles Bonus Assignment 1/20 1/24 ·
Online Classroom
Etiquette Assignment 1/26 Please
remember make-up guidelines |
14 Computer
Lab 1220-G open for your use—work on Learning
Styles Writing Assignment, p. 99 in the Course Packet Learning
Styles Bonus Assignment Online Classroom
Etiquette Assignment |
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17
HOLIDAY Continue
your 20-minutes-a-day
reading practice. |
18
Begin How
to Take Lecture Notes unit. Please have
read
pp. 19-23
in the Course Packet, particularly p.
19. Assign Course Chart
activity, p. 100 in the Course Packet Surprises and
Frustrations |
19 Continue How to Take
Lecture Notes unit. Please have read pp. 19-23
in the Teal Packet |
20 Continue How to Take
Lecture Notes Unit. Please have
read pp.
23-25 in the Course Packet Learning
Styles Writing Assignment, due
at the beginning of class. (P. 99 in our Course Packet) Optional
online-only Learning
Styles Bonus Assignment due at
the beginning of class |
21 Scavenger Hunt,
pp. 102-103, in the Course Packet due Monday Computer
Lab 1220-G open for your use Time
to work on Classroom
Etiquette Assignment |
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24 Scavenger Hunt,
pp. 102-103, in the Course Packet due
today Peach Book
Day—please bring your Peach Book and your Course Packet to class. |
25 Complete How to Take
Lecture Notes Unit. Please have
read pp.
23-25 in Course Packet Practice
Lecture Notes Day—up to 20 points
possible Course Chart
activity due at the beginning of
class. (P. 100 in our Course Packet) |
26 Classroom Etiquette
Assignment due Begin Textbook
Skills Unit, pp. 35-38 in the Course Packet |
27 Continue Textbook
Skills Unit, pp. 39-40 in the Course Packet. In class practice 50 point quiz over the How to Take
Lecture Notes Unit at the top of the hour Classroom Etiquette
Assignment due at the beginning of class. |
28 Computer
Lab 1220-G open for your use Web Assignment
for your own enrichment Test-taking
Anxiety Questionnaires ·
Do you have a test-anxiety problem? ·
What strategies seem helpful to you? ·
Write a paragraph of your findings. |
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31 Why should
I Learn How to Research?—How Knowledge
Grows |
1 February Library and
Research Orientation Meet in the
SCC Library classroom |
2 Library and Research
Orientation Meet in the
SCC Library classroom |
3 Test-taking
Anxiety Paragraph due at the beginning of class Assign Research Summary |
4
Computer Lab 1220-G help with your Research Summary Complete
the ProQuest Quest |
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7 No class—please
work on your research
summary topic and the ProQuest Quest |
8 Finish Textbook
Skills Unit, pp. 48-53. Using a
“tinker-toy” to extract information ProQuest Quest due |
9 Course Fair
Day |
Finish
Textbook Skills Unit Top-of-the-hour
50 point quiz on Textbook
Skills |
11 Computer
Lab 1220-G help with your Research Summary |
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14 November Peach Book
Day—please bring your Peach Book and your Course Packet to class. Research Summary Topic
due—10 points |
Begin Memory Training,
pp. 54-59 |
161510
Continue Memory Training Skills—Catchwords
and Catchphrases, pp, 60-68 |
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18 Computer
Lab 1220-G help with your Research Summary |
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21 HOLIDAY |
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24 |
25 Computer
Lab 1220-G help with your Research Summary |
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1 March |
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14 Research Summary
due at the beginning of class Oral Report
Day |
15 Review |
16 Review |
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Comprehensive |
18 DL Testing
day “Dead
Day” no classes. |
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22 FINALS 8:30, 11:30,
2:30 Conferences
and results in the classroom at 8:30 |
23 FINALS 9:30, 12:30 |
24 FINALS 7:30, 10:30,
1:30 End of Winter
Quarter |
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UP-TO-DATE.