Mid 3rd Quarter Reflection

Time Management:

• How do you schedule your homework? How can you fit regular writing sessions into that plan? Would writing days in class be helpful to you or are they not productive time?

• How can you capitalize on meeting, conferencing, and collaboration in order to get the input or inspiration that will help you?

Reading Strategies:

How is the Zinn reading going? Have you learned anything (content or process) from your primary document work on the causes of the Civil War that will help you with Zinn? with other primary sources? with texts? For example: when you read the Civil War documents HOW did you read?

• Did you print out the documents or read them on line?
• What did you do to prepare to read them? how did you know what to look for or focus on?
• If you printed them out, did you have paper to make notes one while and after you read?
• If you read them on line, did you copy them into a file where you could mark it up (Google Docs, Word, FrontPage)?
• If you highlight is it just to keep your eyes focused on the page? HDKY what to highlight?
• What do you write down? what questions do you ask? what do you write about when you finish reading?
• If the document is long, do you read it in sections? What do you do at the end of each section?

Now, consider your writing strategies:

• how you will approach your revising your leadership essay?
• What are you confident about? What are you concerned about? Confused about?
• How have you approached revisions in the past? What worked? What didn't?

And, writing in general:

• How do you collect your thoughts, ideas and questions?
• Do you free-write? How do you go about it?
• How do you choose a topic?
• How do you organize your ideas once they are collected?
• Why do you think these strategies are working?
• If they aren't working as well as you think they could, what concerns do you have? Where do you need help or suggestions?