1 Plus 3 Notes for SPA 301 & APH 262

Hello again! Hope everyone is staying warm and dry as the rain continues to fall this week...

Good thing you're inside and on your computer because it's time to talk about

1 Plus 3 Notes!

I'll start off with the class I take in English so you can all understand how this strategy is used (however if you speak Spanish feel free to jump down the page right away!). These are this week's notes from my Art Photo class:

I used these notes to create my 1 Plus 3 chart. This strategy was especially so great to use for this class specifically because I was able to take screenshots of how each key concept was illustrated and plug them into the chart next to the concepts:

Using curves in photoshop can be quite tricky and complex (it's almost like math!), so having an illustration of each key concept to demonstrate how to curves work was so helpful.

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This week in Spanish 301, we have finally moved on.. to poetry! Moving from short stories to poems just made things more difficult in this class this week. Poetry takes a different type of analyzation. We started off with "Romances Castellanos", which in English basically means romantic poems in a Castellano style. First we analyzed different elements of the poem, as we did with short stories, but then we also had to analyze the rhythm of the poem. These are my notes from our discussion on the poem we read called "Romance del Enamorado y la Muerte":

I really like the 1 Plus 3 strategy because it allows me to make a very simple and basic chart to better understand my notes. It was super quick and almost acts as a miniature study guide for one section of notes (which is great to break down sections of your notes with). I created four boxes instead of three (an adaptation I made for my SPA course). This way, I can have my key concepts and an illustration of those concepts right next to each other. And at the bottom, I focused on creating two major questions that I could be tested on in the future.

I really liked how I could put an illustration of a key concept next to one another. For example, we must learn to count the rhythms in poems. I was able to show how to count each syllable for one line; I used colors to demonstrate this (see: "Soñaba con mis amores").