February 17, 2012

What We Did Today

Today, we started off by talking about the work that we did on Wednesday which was taking notes from chapter 2 and 5 in the Pathways textbook about the manor, ordinary people, village homes, the manor house, the privileges, the obligations, women in the late middle ages, and women and social level. Ms. Lees was impressed about the note taking because we didn’t complain about the note taking and we took notes for two chapters in the textbook so Ms. Lees thought that we should get a break and so we didn’t get homework for the weekend. After the talk about Wednesday we talked about what to do and don’t do for the note taking process which included phrases and key words and don’t use full sentences. We used a T chart to organize the criteria of do and not to do. Then we looked at couple of examples of the note taking and we discussed what needs improvement and what we did wrong and some things that were good about the way of the note taking that the person did. After that we watched some short videos about the middle ages on YouTube. Some of the videos on YouTube were funny and some were kind of odd. It was interesting to see what happened that were big in the middle ages.

Why We Did It

We started off by confirming what we did on Wednesday because Ms. Lees didn’t know what we actually did on Wednesday. We talked about the criteria of note taking because some people didn’t know what they should have done or what they can improve on next time. We looked at couple of examples of some people’s note taking because we wanted to know what was good about the note taking and the bad things about note taking. Now since we know the information about the note taking method, we can take notes properly. We watched the YouTube videos to get a better understanding of big events and what happened in the middle ages. These videos may help us know what people did in the middle ages for the up-coming project.

Connections/ reflections

The talk about the criteria of note taking could help us for taking notes in useful ways in other subjects and in different jobs in the future. For example we could be taking long notes about the up-coming project or a big test for humanities and other subjects. The information about the YouTube videos could help us maybe for the future but I don’t know particularly how it will help in the future.

Homework and Tips

This weekend we didn’t have any homework but for tips I suggest you to read chapter 9 of There Will Be Wolves and start on the chapter 9 questions because it will be due on Wednesday. Also we will be starting our research project for the middle ages on Monday and continue on Tuesday. We will be in the library on Monday and Tuesday to do our middle ages research project. Good luck on the research project!