Previewing

__ Previewing __ 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?
 * It's to look up information or read the preview before actually reading the book. //To preview a reading is to examine the structure, questions/connections/predictions are welcomed, identify the main idea, examine the topics and subtopics.//

Why is it helpful to preview before reading?
 * I think it's important to get a clear idea of what you're reading before actually reading it. //It helps get a new concept of what you're reading. It's better to have an idea instead of what to expect rather than blindly go into the reading.//

Activity 2.7

__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)
 * Identify potential key terms or concepts
 * Make connections to your prior knowledge
 * Make predictions
 * Ask questions that you hope to be answered by reading & attempt to answer them

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.

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.

Activity 2.8

Answer the following questions in your Previewing page, make sure to label the assignment by number.

What do you think of our previewing model?
 * I don't understand why there is two columns, but the left side is a much better example. I like how the left side is a thorough preview of not only the context, but the side as well.

What aspects of previewing did we utilize?


 * Questions/attempt to answer them
 * Identifying the key concept
 * Getting the feel of the layout/structure
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many links on the right margin, so lots more resources from this site, mostly about leadership

A ctivity 2.9


 * 1) URL concludes that this site is all about psychology
 * 2) Ads -> site needs to make money. Other ads include finding your own therapist or other health services
 * 3) By [|Carlin Flora], published on May 01, 2005 - last reviewed on February 09, 2010. Flora is an author of phycologytoday
 * 4) [|Charisma], chutzpah, joie de vivre and grace are the "x-factors"
 * 5) The article is biased by saying that you should only need these characteristics to gain success.
 * 6) What is chutzpah & joie de vivre? Quick research -> chutzpah is having the audacity (guts) either good or bad. So it's like taking a risk. & joie de vivre is french for the "joy of living." I think that this would mean someone who's full of life, vibrant, or someone who never runs down.
 * 7) The 4 characteristics are discussed in separated sections under different headings

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 2.10
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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