Learning This Semester

This semester has been crammed packed with a bunch of things. At the beginning of the year this class I noticed off the bat that this class was going to be very different than what we are used to. Since this class was different I knew I had to find new ways or better ways to improve my learning.

      One of those ways is working on my book annotations. Since I had never been in a class where the teacher forced us to annotate; I never really learned a good way as to how to annotate, and when I did everything seemed so important. But Mr. Allen really stressed how important it is and how much it will help me in the end when having to take a test or write a paper. He gave us multiple examples on ways to annotate and I took those examples and tried to follow his pattern while I was reading. It was a struggle at first because it’s hard for me to focus on both the book and annotating while keeping a look out for the patterns and key things. But I started by doing a couple pages of each chapter that way in order for me to get the hang of it and would add more pages each time. I am not perfect at this yet but I have hope with enough practice I will be very successful.

      Another way that helped from another angel was the Mindbook has a whole because for all these assignments it forced me to think outside the box. It was hard for me at the beginning because my mind wasn’t used to thinking so divergently. But with practice it became easier for me to switch between the two divergent thinking and convergent thinking. This assignment also helped me a lot because it helped me use some of the ideas we talked about in class and work them into my own life which made me understand the material much better. I also would like more practice with using these kinds of thinking because I enjoy thinking this way and it helps me with the way I like to learn.