Grade 12, Unit 5 – How We Learn, Library of Activities

Text Audio

Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer by Michael Finkel

The Power of Nothing by Michael Specter

Writing Tasks

S-4: The First Assignment: Retelling “Secrets of a Mind-Gamer”

S-5: The Second Assignment: Writing About Foer’s Message

S-6: The Third Assignment: Writing About Foer’s Method

S-11: The Learning Project

S-14: Sub-Assignment #1: Identifying a Skill to Learn

S-15: Sub-Assignment #2: Examining Your Assumptions

S-23: A “Before You Begin Writing” Task: Wrapping Up the Research

S-24: Sub-Assignment #3: What Did You Learn From Your Interviews?

S-25: Sub-Assignment #4: What Did You Learn From the Books and Articles You Read?

S-26: Sub-Assignment #5: Writing the Report

S-28: A Brief Revision Task: Imitating Sentences

Charts for Discussion

S-1-3: Sketching the Sequence

S-4: Retelling Foer

S-4: Questions About “Secrets of a Mind-Gamer”

S-5: What Foer Tells Us About Learning

S-8: Structure of “Secrets of a Mind-Gamer”

S-10: Sentences: Writing from Interviews or Conversations

S-10: Sentences: Writing from Observation, Experience, or Memory

S-10: Sentences: Writing from Books, Articles, or Other Print Materials

S-10: Sentences: Writing to Convey Thoughts and Feelings

S-11: Skills to Learn

S-13: Revisiting Foer’s Methods

S-16: Short Assignments for The Learning Project

S-A: Basic Rules for Interviewing

S-A: Six Things to Do Before the Interview

S-B: Six Things to Do At the Interview

S-C: Things to Do After the Interview

S-C: Things to Work On

S-C: Ways to Incorporate Interviews into a Report

S-F: Citations

Forms and Graphic Organizers

S-1-3: Tracking Foer

S-33: Presenting Your Research

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