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Week 1toc

**After orientation, there are 4 major parts to our week one work:**
 * 1) **AP Vocabulary**
 * 2) **Previewing**
 * 3) **Note-making**
 * 4) **Collaboration**

Wednesday July 6th
__**Vocabulary**__

**Introduction**: In this section you will focus on:
 * Identifying key academic and AP/Honors social studies vocabulary terms.
 * Evaluate the importance of academic terms

Activity 2.1: Lets Get Started


 * Create a new summer virtual notebook page entitled Academic Vocabulary.
 * Create a link on your vocabulary page to [|www.vocabulary.com]

All work for this section will be completed on this page.

Watch the brief video clip on "Street" language and "Academic" language

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 * Opener:** **Answer the three following questions on your vocabulary page of your virtual notebook.**
 * **Label the section Activity # 2.1: Lets' Get Started:**
 * **Copy and paste the questions into your virtual notebook and then write your responses for each.**


 * 1. What did you learn about academic vocabulary from watching the video clip?**
 * 2. How would you define academic vocabulary?**
 * 3. Predict how academic vocabulary can help you be successful in your social studies classes as well as other academic classes?**

Activity 2.2: What you know about Academic Terms

You will complete the following tasks under the heading of 2**.2: What you know about Academic terms** in your virtual notebook: (a-c)


 * Below is a list of terms. Identify the words that you are familiar and give an example of what you associate the term with or where you most often see it used.**
 * **Write this information in your virtual notebook under Activity 2.2.**


 * Complete the three column term sheet provided on the terms below**
 * **Write what you know about these academic terms and**
 * **Make connections and comments to each word.**
 * **Make a Copy of your completed work and upload file to your virtual notebook.**


 * Use your link to [|www.vocabulary.com]**
 * **Add any information to your definitions in another color.**
 * **Add to commentary.**
 * **Updates will also have to be saved and uploaded.**


 * List of academic terms :**


 * Analyze**
 * Assess**
 * Bias**
 * Context**
 * Correlate**
 * Criteria**
 * Debate**
 * Evaluate**
 * Inference**
 * Imply**
 * Interpret**
 * Justify**
 * Thesis**
 * Perspective**
 * Point of View**

Activity 2.3: What you know about Academic Terms :


 * Complete the following tasks under the heading 2.3 in your virtual notebook: **

I**mply/Infer:**
 * Copy the pair or group of words and **explain** the ways they are **similar** or **different**.
 * Bias/Point of View: **
 * Evaluate/Assess: **


 * Select another pair of words of your choosing to compare

As a review of what you now know about academic terms, open the copy of the Frayer model below.
 * Complete the sections of Frayer model,
 * copy your completed Frayer and upload file to virtual notebook under **section 2.3**.



Go back to the opening **questions in 2.1: Getting started**.
 * Add to what you wrote concerning the importance of academic terms using another color

Activity 2.4: New Vocabulary

Learning vocabulary is a continuous process. As you continue with this course
 * ** create a three column table ** and add new terms that you learn and terms that are used in the particular AP discipline that you are enrolled in for the fall into the table you created. Table Should be placed under the **2.4 New Vocabulary** heading

Activity 2.5: Evaluate other Vocabulary Tools

There are a number of tools to help you with vocabulary. Look through the links provided below. Check out the kind of applications available in each.


 * **Which one(s) do you think would be most helpful to you . Explain why?**

[|Visual Thesaurus]

Natural Reader

[|Free Rice]


 * __Previewing__ **

**Introduction**: In this section you will focus on:
 * How to preview a reading.

Activity 2.6

__Opener__ : Answer the two questions below in a new page in your virtual notebook. Your new page should be called Previewing and your opener should be labeled 2.6


 * What does it mean to preview a reading?
 * Why is it helpful to preview before reading?

Activity 2.7 ﻿Read and then copy the following previewing essentials into your notebook, in your Previewing page, under a heading with the activity number.

__Previewing essentials__ :


 * Attempt to ascertain the topic and subtopics of your reading
 * Get a feel for the layout and structure of the reading (especially headings)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify potential key terms or concepts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make connections to your prior knowledge
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make predictions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask questions that you hope to be answered by reading & attempt to answer them

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each AP level social studies class includes a heavy amount of reading, including much from a dense textbook. In order to read well it is important to develop a number of reading skills. Taking a strategic approach to your reading will make you a better reader and therefore, more likely to obtain and retain knowledge as well as think more productively before, during, and after you read.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before starting to read, it is important to preview your reading, whether it is a one page primary source document, a website, or fifteen pages of a textbook. While during the school year it will be essential for you to preview all of your readings, especially each installment of textbook reading you are assigned, for this summer course we will use a website to practice previewing.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 2.8

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Read through the model for previewing below, making sure to check out the site we used for doing our previewing and the previewing notes themselves. Then answer the questions that follow.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Previewing Model__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To show you an example of productive previewing, we used <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|this site]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are our previewing notes, organization into 2-columns was a personal preference, your teacher may have a certain way he or she would like you to make yours:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick internet research only tells me that it could have to do with it being a non-profit organization??? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. I don’t know anything about Mark Shead <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Fairly subjective topic <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. My quick list of 5: intelligent, charismatic, organized, empathetic, strong-willed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. An oft-used example of a great leader - American Revolution winning General for the colonists, 1st President of the U.S. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. 5 traits are vocab terms || # <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The general site is called Leadership501 - so it deals with leadership
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why 501?
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are ads at the top, so this site must be trying to make $
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many links on the right margin, so lots more resources from this site, mostly about leadership
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This specific article is “The Five Most Important Leadership Traits” by Mark Shead
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The picture is of George Washington’s face from Mount Rushmore
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5 traits listed: Honest, Forward-Looking, Competent, Inspiring, Intelligent
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These 5 traits are then each discussed under separate headings
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s see what Mr. Shead has specifically written on these 5 “most important” traits
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No bias evident as of yet ||

Answer the following questions in your Previewing page, make sure to label the assignment by number.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think of our previewing model?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What aspects of previewing did we utilize?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 2.9

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Previewing Assignment__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, in your virtual notebook, Previewing page,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete your own previewing of a website reading using <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|this article]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(please note that it has multiple pages).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You may follow the 2-column format we used in our example, or you may use your own format. Make sure to review the “Previewing Essentials” list before beginning. Make sure to label the activity by number.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 2.10
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Revisit your Opener and add to your thoughts on the definition of previewing and its value. Do these revisions in a different color font than your original writing.

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Thursday, July 7th
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**Introduction**: In this section you will focus on the following
 * How to read college level text independently
 * How to efficiently and effectively make notes while reading longer pieces of text
 * Using note-making strategies to enhance your understanding of readings

Activity 3.1: Opener


 * Make a new page in your Summer Session Virtual Notebook and title it "Note-making".
 * Answer the following questions on that page, below a heading with the activity number.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the qualities of good note-making?
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do you think good note-making is widely considered a standard for success in AP classes?

Activity 3.2: Note-making essentials

Read the following essentials for making effective notes
 * Copy these into the note-making page of your Summer Session Virtual Notebook.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review your previewing notes and use those thoughts to guide you
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Break reading into smaller, manageable chunks, maybe based on the headings in the text
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write notes only after reading through a portion of the reading (a "chunk")
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paraphrase the most important information from each chunk
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Add the most important details
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make connections to other history that you have learned or current events
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep track of important vocabulary
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask questions and try to answer them
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write the main ideas, in your own words, from each subtopic and one for the overall topic of the reading

Activity 3.3: Making Notes for Independent Understanding

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Advanced Placement courses you will be expected to do far more independent reading outside of class than in other level classes. Expect to be assigned at least 10-15 pages of reading every night. In order to help you move through this reading both quickly but more importantly effectively, we’ve decided to use some strategies with which you might already be familiar but with some alterations for AP.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the instructions for note-making provided on this page, @Note-Making Instructions and Example
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In your Summer Session virtual notebook, complete your own set of content-response notes based upon your reading of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__this article__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(please note that it has multiple pages and that it is the same reading used for your previewing work). You may follow the 2-column format we used in our example, or you may use your own format, however //**the note-making essentials must be clearly evident in your work**//. Make sure to review the “Note-making Essentials” list before beginning.

Activity 3.4: Reflections on Note-Making Once you've finished reading and making notes, respond to the following questions below in your summer program virtual notebook under the heading, "3.4 Reflections on Note-Making"
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think of our note-making model?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did our instructions help you better understand how to make notes?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you feel that after using these note-making strategies you have a better understanding of the text than if you had just read it? Why or why not?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which of the Note-Making Essentials did you struggle the most with? Why?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete the following survey when you are finished with today's session

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 * __Cooperative Learning and Collaborative Learning__**

**Introduction**: In this section you will focus on:
 * How to work with partners to improve your mutual understanding of difficult text
 * How to be part of a successful student group
 * Using the strategies to create a collaborative group presentation on leadership

**Activity #1: Opener** **Activity #2: Reading and Marking Up** Before you are able to complete this activity you will need to do the following a. Go to crocodoc.com and sign up for a new account. (Make sure you use a username and password you will remember) b. Download the following document and save it to your desktop c. On your crocodoc account select ADD DOCUMENT and upload the document you saved in the step above. d. The document should appear on your crocodocs homepage under Title. Double click on the document to open it.
 * In the discussion section of **this** (Yes this page you are on right now!) page, create a new post (or respond to the post of another student) and list the advantages/disadvantages of working as a group. Give examples if you can.
 * In Crocodoc.com use the annotate (comment, highlight, draw) feature to mark up the reading on Group Roles and Group Success.
 * When complete select "share" then embed to get the embed code and then embed this on the **Cooperative Learning and Collaborative Learning** page of your wiki.
 * Below your embedded briefly list the advantages of using crocodocs as an annotating tool.


 * Activity # 3: Responding to a Partner **
 * Go to the summer notebook of a partner and add comments and thoughts to the crocodoc they embedded on their page

Notebook maintainance

Spend the rest of your time today to go back, read the feedback you have received on your notebook and make any appropriate edits. Use different colors to show revised work.

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