Archive | February 2015

Basic Education- 2/25/2015

1. Write a sentence for each word

country, cousin, creature, touched, proud

2. Write a paragraph/essay:
What’s your dream tourist destination — either a place you’ve been and loved, or a place you’d love to visit? What about it speaks to you?
( from  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/tourist-trap/)

Brain:Learning how to remember: Long term memory in the brain
4. associations, 5. reformatting, 6. multiple pathways

Basic Education- 2/23/2015

1. Write a sentence for each word

battle, daughter, minutes, screamed, wonder

2. Write a paragraph/essay:
What’s your dream tourist destination — either a place you’ve been and loved, or a place you’d love to visit? What about it speaks to you?
( from  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/tourist-trap/)

Brain:Learning how to remember: Long term memory in the brain
1. rehearsal/repetition     2. mnemonics      3. chunking

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Basic Education- 2/18/15

1. Write a sentence for each word

kicked, sloppy, wealthy, transplant, invent

2. Write a paragraph/essay: Write about your favorite character.

Brain: Working memory.  Long and short term memory p48

Basic Education- 2/11/15

1. Write a sentence for each word:

studying, addict, ponies, stamped, reward

2. Continue working on your paragraph/essay:  Re-springing your Step

3. Discover the one thing you must do to learn material. (Brain Upgrade)

Work for 2/9

Write a sentence for each word

peaches   happened  unfinished  soreness  filed

Write a paragraph/essay: Re-springing your step. What was the last experience you had that left you feeling fresh and energized? What was it that had such a positive effect on you?

Brain: What are strategies that you can use to help you read or study? p47