50 Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students Infer the author’s purpose. Distinguish between primary and secondary audiences. Summarize the media by identifying its 3-5 most important ideas or events. Identify and diagram the literary elements (e.g., setting, characters, conflict, etc.) Identify and analyze characters as major or minor; flat or round; static or…
27 Strategies For Learning Explain the significance Challenge something Draw a conclusion Form an important question Revise a question based on observation & data Critique something Observe something Revise something Transfer a lesson or philosophical stance from one situation to another Improve a design Identify a cause and effect Compare and contrast two or more…
A cognitive bias is an inherent thinking ‘blind spot’ that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate–and often irrational–conclusions.
Short Response: 1-4 complete sentences Extended Response 1-4 complete paragraphs Essay: 5 or more paragraphs (also called a ‘paper’ and can be informative, research-based, persuasive, etc.) Chapter 1 Vocabulary: pallid, callow, abject, geniality, florid, zealous, salinity, viscosity, bouillon, prodigious, viviparous, vivacious, interminable, deft, optimum, predestination, sultry, caste, decant. Explain how Huxley uses imagery to establish…
Literary Terms and Devices Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes the book’s…
Question-based learning is a type of inquiry where the learner is guided by forming and refining a guiding question or questions.
