Your thoughts

For this week, please choose one quote to comment on from the list below.  Please spend some time thinking about your choice before posting.  Let it sit awhile.  Then, come back and share your thoughts.

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." -Bill Beattie

"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.  Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.  We must make our choice; we cannot have both." -Abraham Flexner

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a life, educate people." -Chinese Proverb

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Blog Assignment #3

A few things this week...

1)  Please complete Interest Survey #2 located on our Course Website.
2)  Read over the Blog Grading Criteria.  Please make sure to have your blog completed by the due date.  No exceptions from here on.
3)  Complete Blog Assignment #3.  Due Sat. Sept. 18th @ 11:59pm.

Blog Assignment #3

As we conclude our Limits and Continuity Unit this week, please take some time to review your class notes and homework problems.  Refer to your notebook and textbook for the topics we have covered thus far.  In reviewing this material, please share 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses you have had in working through this material.  I would prefer for you to be as precise and detailed as possible.

For each of your 3 weaknesses, come up with at least one method (for each weakness) that may help you master the skill/concept.

Example 1:  "I really need to just find more practice problems with trigonometric functions.  I found ____ website that can help me better understand trigonometric functions."

Example 2: "Since I have trouble finding limits at infinity, I should work more practice problems where I have to analyze the degrees of the numerator and denominator.  For this, I can work the even problems in our textbook and check the solutions with Mrs. Guthrie's solution guide."

My intention for this blog post is to encourage you to (in fancy educational psychology words) be "metacognitive" about your own learning.  Metacognition is "thinking about your own thinking".  Reflecting on your strengths and weaknesses as a learner is a crucial life skill that will help you reach your full potential.  Challenging you to create your own methods for strengthening your weakness is preparing you for future endeavors.  You won't always have a cool AP Calculus teacher to show you the way.  You can do it.  All on your own.  :)

Mrs. Guthrie

Grading Criteria for Blog Posts

Total Points = 5

5 points = Turned in on time.  Thoughtful post.  Elaborated responses.  I could tell you thought put some thought and effort into the assignment.

Subtract 1 point for every day late.  This is the only assignment for which I will accept late work.

P.S. Fall is coming...

P.P. S. Mrs. Guthrie's birthday is coming...