I hope you all had a great weekend! The weather is gorgeous!
For this week's Tech assignment, I chose to apply the ANTICIPATING TEST QUESTIONS and DIRECTIONAL WORDS OR PHRASES to my Intro to Theatre Class (DRA 115).
This is the only class in which I have a midterm, and it is coming up this Thursday. I chose these two strategies because I learn very well taking notes, and using those notes later to help me study.
For the ANTICIPATING TEST QUESTIONS strategy, I changed it up a little from the directions. First, I looked over my syllabus, and I noticed that Geri (our professor) is very adamant about our knowledge of the vocabulary she and the other teachers we will have in the theatre department use. I went through the book we are going to be tested on, UNNATURAL ACTS, and found all the bolded words. Then I made flashcards of all the bolded words, with their definitions, and in the end, it turned out to be 80 flashcards exactly! Here are a few of my flashcards:
There are so many words to learn, but I know that the flashcards will help me immensely. Since I am a Kinesthetic Learner, the action of flipping through the flashcards has always helped me.
After creating my flashcards, I decided to put the DIRECTIONAL WORDS OR PHRASES strategy to the test. I went through all of the notes that I have ever taken in class, and chose the 5 most commonly used words:
CHARACTER, FLAW, INTENTION, SUPER OBJECTIVE, & CATHARSIS.
Here is the page on which I documented the number of uses of these words:
I also included definitions, just to reinforce the learning :)Well, I have to go study my flashcards now! See you all tomorrow! Don't forget to grade yourself!
Using flashcards to remember terms is a great way,and I have to try this with my HOA course,because we have a lot of terms in the exam too.Thank you for your post, Hannah!
ReplyDeleteI am bad at memorizing stuffs. Your method sparked me on how to solving the problem. But for DIRECTION WORDS OR PHRASES, I am afraid that I cannot use them well in my ECN class. Because this course always have a lot of connections with other chapters( like we learn supply& demand for individual first, and then in the following chapter, we use this in firms, finally, we have to apply this in the whole market). But still you provide a good example.
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