AVID 6th CFE Review #3

Your AVID teacher has completed your binder check for this week. Review your score based on 1 – 10 points for each category. (A 10 is the highest score you can receive.)

According to the binder check results above, what goal should you set for next week?

• Reorganize all of my supplies and clean out my loose papers.

• Update my resource selection and replace old handouts.

• Increase the number of Cornell notes that I am taking and record all of my homework assignments.

• Reorganize my subject area dividers and place my current

  assignments in the front of each section.

After taking notes in class, what is the first step you should follow to improve the notes?

• Write a summary of the notes.

• Write some questions about the notes.

• Complete your heading at the top of the page.

• Read and revise the notes.

For homework, you have just completed reading and revising your Cornell notes that you took today in history class. What do you need to do next?

• Define the important vocabulary discussed in class.

• Identify the main ideas and write a summary at the bottom.

• Identify the main ideas and write questions about them in the left-

  column.

• Compare the science notes you took today to the notes you took

  yesterday.

Why do we write summaries for our Cornell notes?

• to identify the most important detail

• to review the new vocabulary

• to connect the big ideas and answer the essential question

• to answer and explain one question in the left-column

When you finish a test in class, what test-taking skill should you complete first?

• Review the last test you took in class.

• Write a reflection of what was easy and difficult on the test.

• Talk to your teacher about your previous test grades.

• Make a list of what will be on the next test.

You are attending an AVID college field trip and listening to the college president. Why is it important to listen carefully?

• to practice asking higher-level questions

• to practice listening to and speaking with adults

• to gather as much information about the college as possible

• to compare this college information with other schools

You are studying for an upcoming English test. You are using your Cornell notes as a study guide to review the unit on Poetry. You begin to review all of the questions that you have written on the left-hand side of your notes trying to identify the most challenging questions your teacher will ask on the test. Below is the list of questions you are reviewing. Based upon what you know about levels of thinking; which question is considered to be the most challenging question (an example of a Costa’s Level Three question)?

• Who is the author of this poem?

• What is the main idea of this poem?

• Pretend you are the main character in the poem. How would you rewrite the last three lines of the poem to express your point of view?

• Explain the author’s point of view. What information in the poem

  supports your explanation?

Which of the following is not the purpose of the AVID binder?

• To help keep the student organized

• A place to keep work and all notes for class

• An evaluation tool for the AVID teacher

• A form of torture for AVID students

Which of the following is NOT part of the Cornell Note system?

• The essential question

• Questions or main ideas on the left side

• Copying notes word for word from teacher or powerpoint

• Summary of notes taken

Inquiry describes the part of WICOR that involves:

• Writing

• Working together

• Discovery by asking good questions

• Organization