by
Unnati. P. Kakkad & Thien B Ngo
Oct 10th, 2017 class:
Daily Grade #10:
Write a self-evaluation of your performance in this class and at GSU so far this semester
- Are you meeting your goals?
- If not, what could you do to improve your performance? (think of 2-3 strategies)
Strategies:
- Have something that reminds you: write on hands, put reminders in your phone, use sticky notes and stick them around. Try to keep things visible, so you don’t forget. Dr. C suggested to sticky notes around the room with “be on time”, or “go to bed early”, it helps you to motivate to finish work on time, but you can always use whichever works best for you. We can also have a look on some strategies that comes from successful people such as Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of his strategies is, as he has so much things to manage each day, he prioritize things which are mandatory to be done. Try to identify habits that are not productive. Of course, you could give yourself a window of 30 minutes to relax, after that you should go back and manage productive things.
- Dr. C also let the class know that she always welcome student come to get her advice about study skills, how to organize ideas for essays, writing processes or any type of difficulty, if she can’t help it she will definitely make you contact the right person for detailed information.
Class activities:
Work in group of 3 and in your group, discuss and draft answers to the following questions for assigned chapters (Introduction, Chapter 1 or Chapter 2). Be prepared to discuss with other groups working on similar chapters:
- Discuss what happens in your chapter. (Think about who, when, where, what, how, why).
- Collaboratively, write a summary of what happens in your chapter.
- Choose one central quotation to include. Add a brief discussion of why the quotation is significant.
- Generate 2-3 discussion questions- what are the most thought-provoking issues the chapter raises?
Oct 12th, 2017 class:
Daily Grade #11:
Pick 1-2 messages from Just Mercy and free-writing on why the passage interest you.
Strategies:
Students should take this chance to brainstorm and prepare for the research paper later on. Dr. C. advised students to highlight interesting passages. And as there is not enough time to write down the full passage from Just Mercy, so students could write down the page number (eg. page 45).
Class activities:
Dr. C gave groups some time to discuss and prepare themselves for mini presentation in front of class in which each group have to present summary, quotation and explanation, and discussion questions on the same chapter of Just Mercy: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2.
