Sunday, January 25, 2009
Jan27 Summary (CRCB C2, DEVELOPING YOUR COLLEGE VOCABULARY)
Chapter 2 is about Developing Your College Vocabulary by learning new vocabulary you are building important reading strategies. Building vocabulary is one of the most significant impacts on student Achievement, by expanding your vocabulary; you increase your understanding in knowledge.
Developing your vocabulary is about learning or understanding the words of textbooks information. It builds an important reading strategy and increases your ability to speak and write well to communication effectively. It allows you to fully understand and increase your word power and chances of getting job of your choice what you desire for. Developing Your Vocabulary; reading and listening comprehension will improve more words. You can use these important strategies to help you figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words: context clues and word part analysis, writing in your textbook, creating word maps, understanding denotation and connotation, journal writing, and the card review system. One of the best ways of making word a part of your vocabulary is the use of it in your daily life.
Reading is an important way to learn new words and in rich your vocabulary in Daily life, by writing a journal on regular basis you will improve.
Developing your vocabulary is about learning or understanding the words of textbooks information. It builds an important reading strategy and increases your ability to speak and write well to communication effectively. It allows you to fully understand and increase your word power and chances of getting job of your choice what you desire for. Developing Your Vocabulary; reading and listening comprehension will improve more words. You can use these important strategies to help you figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words: context clues and word part analysis, writing in your textbook, creating word maps, understanding denotation and connotation, journal writing, and the card review system. One of the best ways of making word a part of your vocabulary is the use of it in your daily life.
Reading is an important way to learn new words and in rich your vocabulary in Daily life, by writing a journal on regular basis you will improve.
Jan27 Exercise (CRCB C2, DEVELOPING YOUR COLLEGE VOCABULARY)
Exercise 2a, Context Clues,P36
2.She was so overcome with joy by the birth of her baby that she was able to say nothing other than that the whole experience was simply ineffable.
c. incapable of being expressed in words
3. Most of us eventually reach our goals, but life’s path to success is often a circuitous one.
c. marked by roundabout or indirect procedures
4. The preacher took a pedagogic approach with the sermon, hoping that those attending would learn something meaningful from it.
a. instructional
5. Although teaching is not a lucrative profession, I know that I wouldn’t want to
do anything else. Helping others learn is far more important to me than money
c. well paying
6. Buying the lottery ticket is a very capricious way to plan for your future. The chances of winning are 1 in 10,000,000.
d. unpredictable
Exercise 2b, Context Clues in Textbooks,P37
(1).Alcoholism exacts a horrible toll on the drinker and on the drinker's family, but the damage doesn't stop there. Drunk driving, workplace losses, and issues related to alcohol abuse. The search for effective methods of intervention has never been more intense.
B - Forces.
(2)The natural circadian rhythm of most animals, including humans, is 25 to 26 hours, but our internal clocks easily adapt to the 24-hour rhythms of the turning earth. When we are isolated from environmental cues, our sleep/wake cycles continue to be rather constant but slightly longer than 24 hours.
B - Daily behavioral cycle.
(3) when the commissioner of Indian affairs took office in 1933,he vowed to defend Indian rights. the conciliatory attitudes of the commissioner and the Indian office, regarding Indian rights, conformed with legal precedents established by state and federal courts.
B - agreeable, accommodating.
(4) Our own daily rhythms can become desynchronized when we take a cross country or transoceanic flight. if you fly from los Angeles to new York and then go to bed at 11pm.Eastern standard time, you may have trouble falling asleep because your body is still on west coast time.
Definition: Broken or full apart.
(5)if my argument so far has been sound, neither our distance from a preventable evil nor the number of other people who, in respect to that evil are in the same situation as we are, lessens our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil’s shall therefore take as established the principle i asserted earlier. As I have already said need to assert it only in its qualified form; if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.
Definition: Seize, stop.
Exercise 2d, Roots,P41
1) Equal - same, similar.
2) circumscribe - event, situation.
3) Predict - expect, girt.
4) Untenable - not able to held or excessive.
5) Currently - recently.
6) Extend - to expand or give more time.
7) Extensible - capable to be extended.
8) Scribble - one who writes or copies writing.
9) Retentive - recover.
10) remit-to sends back or remind.
Exercise 2f, Prefix – Create a Word,P43
1) A prefix that means good or well is bene, benefit, benediction.
2)A prefix that means out is Ex-exist-exfoliate.
3)A prefix that means skill is techn-technology-technical.
4)A prefix that means bad is mal-malevolent-malicious.
5)A prefix that means against is anti-antibacterial-antivirus.
6)A prefix that means half is semi-semicolon-semisweet.
7)A prefix that means after is meta-metabolic-metallic.
8)A prefix that means many is nulti-multiple-metallic.
9)A prefix that means more than usual is hyper-hyperactive-hypervetilate.
10)Aprefix that means before is ante-antecedent-antemeridian.
Exercise 2h, Create Words with Suffixes,P45
1)one who professes knowledge-professor.
2)able to mend-mendable.
3)full of spite -spiteful.
4)like a mother-motherhood.
5)characterized by harmony-harmonious.
6)a beginning,start or graduation-preparation.
7)sad at feeling alone-sadness.
8)a scientist who specialises in chemistry-chemist.
9)the act,practise,or profession of istructing-instructor.
10)unable to manage by oneself.dependent-dependant.
Exercise 2i, Identify the Roots,P46
1.harmlessly-harm.
2.controversially-controversy.
3.commercialization-commercial.
4talkatively-outspoke.
5.mindlessness-mind.
6.simplisstically-simple.
7.neighbourliness-neighbour.
8.wakefulness-wake.
9.peacefully-peace.
10.sinfulness-sin.
Exercise 2j, Define the Following Words,P46
1)maltreat-to treat badly,to abuse.
2)autonomous-self worth.
3)emit-to duke away.
4)fidelity-to be faithful.
5)convey-to agree or give regards.
6)equivocal-equilibrium.
7)posthumous-after.
8)carnal-flash.
9)misogynist-wrong.
10)synchronized-together.
2.She was so overcome with joy by the birth of her baby that she was able to say nothing other than that the whole experience was simply ineffable.
c. incapable of being expressed in words
3. Most of us eventually reach our goals, but life’s path to success is often a circuitous one.
c. marked by roundabout or indirect procedures
4. The preacher took a pedagogic approach with the sermon, hoping that those attending would learn something meaningful from it.
a. instructional
5. Although teaching is not a lucrative profession, I know that I wouldn’t want to
do anything else. Helping others learn is far more important to me than money
c. well paying
6. Buying the lottery ticket is a very capricious way to plan for your future. The chances of winning are 1 in 10,000,000.
d. unpredictable
Exercise 2b, Context Clues in Textbooks,P37
(1).Alcoholism exacts a horrible toll on the drinker and on the drinker's family, but the damage doesn't stop there. Drunk driving, workplace losses, and issues related to alcohol abuse. The search for effective methods of intervention has never been more intense.
B - Forces.
(2)The natural circadian rhythm of most animals, including humans, is 25 to 26 hours, but our internal clocks easily adapt to the 24-hour rhythms of the turning earth. When we are isolated from environmental cues, our sleep/wake cycles continue to be rather constant but slightly longer than 24 hours.
B - Daily behavioral cycle.
(3) when the commissioner of Indian affairs took office in 1933,he vowed to defend Indian rights. the conciliatory attitudes of the commissioner and the Indian office, regarding Indian rights, conformed with legal precedents established by state and federal courts.
B - agreeable, accommodating.
(4) Our own daily rhythms can become desynchronized when we take a cross country or transoceanic flight. if you fly from los Angeles to new York and then go to bed at 11pm.Eastern standard time, you may have trouble falling asleep because your body is still on west coast time.
Definition: Broken or full apart.
(5)if my argument so far has been sound, neither our distance from a preventable evil nor the number of other people who, in respect to that evil are in the same situation as we are, lessens our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil’s shall therefore take as established the principle i asserted earlier. As I have already said need to assert it only in its qualified form; if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.
Definition: Seize, stop.
Exercise 2d, Roots,P41
1) Equal - same, similar.
2) circumscribe - event, situation.
3) Predict - expect, girt.
4) Untenable - not able to held or excessive.
5) Currently - recently.
6) Extend - to expand or give more time.
7) Extensible - capable to be extended.
8) Scribble - one who writes or copies writing.
9) Retentive - recover.
10) remit-to sends back or remind.
Exercise 2f, Prefix – Create a Word,P43
1) A prefix that means good or well is bene, benefit, benediction.
2)A prefix that means out is Ex-exist-exfoliate.
3)A prefix that means skill is techn-technology-technical.
4)A prefix that means bad is mal-malevolent-malicious.
5)A prefix that means against is anti-antibacterial-antivirus.
6)A prefix that means half is semi-semicolon-semisweet.
7)A prefix that means after is meta-metabolic-metallic.
8)A prefix that means many is nulti-multiple-metallic.
9)A prefix that means more than usual is hyper-hyperactive-hypervetilate.
10)Aprefix that means before is ante-antecedent-antemeridian.
Exercise 2h, Create Words with Suffixes,P45
1)one who professes knowledge-professor.
2)able to mend-mendable.
3)full of spite -spiteful.
4)like a mother-motherhood.
5)characterized by harmony-harmonious.
6)a beginning,start or graduation-preparation.
7)sad at feeling alone-sadness.
8)a scientist who specialises in chemistry-chemist.
9)the act,practise,or profession of istructing-instructor.
10)unable to manage by oneself.dependent-dependant.
Exercise 2i, Identify the Roots,P46
1.harmlessly-harm.
2.controversially-controversy.
3.commercialization-commercial.
4talkatively-outspoke.
5.mindlessness-mind.
6.simplisstically-simple.
7.neighbourliness-neighbour.
8.wakefulness-wake.
9.peacefully-peace.
10.sinfulness-sin.
Exercise 2j, Define the Following Words,P46
1)maltreat-to treat badly,to abuse.
2)autonomous-self worth.
3)emit-to duke away.
4)fidelity-to be faithful.
5)convey-to agree or give regards.
6)equivocal-equilibrium.
7)posthumous-after.
8)carnal-flash.
9)misogynist-wrong.
10)synchronized-together.
Jan27 Summary (TFY C2, Language and Thought )
This chapter concerns the process of translating observations into words. In order to share our experiences with others through writing, we need to give much thought to our choice of words.
This chapter takes a close look at that process of translation. Clear thinking depends on a clear understanding of words we use. Words confusion leads to less consciousness, or disequilibrium, which can only be restored through word clarification. The test of our understanding of a word is our ability to define it. This ability is particularly important for words representing key ideas that we wish to explain or defend. Taking the time to define the words we use is an essential preliminary to genuine communication.
And the first stage of critical reading is objective receptivity to the material; this means having the technical ability as well as the willingness to accurately reproduce its content without alterations or distortions. If we question and interact with material that we have not accurately interpreted, our criticisms will not be fair or worthwhile.
This chapter takes a close look at that process of translation. Clear thinking depends on a clear understanding of words we use. Words confusion leads to less consciousness, or disequilibrium, which can only be restored through word clarification. The test of our understanding of a word is our ability to define it. This ability is particularly important for words representing key ideas that we wish to explain or defend. Taking the time to define the words we use is an essential preliminary to genuine communication.
And the first stage of critical reading is objective receptivity to the material; this means having the technical ability as well as the willingness to accurately reproduce its content without alterations or distortions. If we question and interact with material that we have not accurately interpreted, our criticisms will not be fair or worthwhile.
Jan27 Exercise (TFY C2, Language and Thought )
P62 Chapter Quiz
1. When Frederick Douglass grasped the concept of abolition,he understood it was possible for him to become free.
False
2. Words can be used to do a better or worse job of describing experiences but can never be more than translations of the experiences themselves.
False
3. A dictionary can help us think better when we use it to clear up word confusion.
True
4. Definitions of a word show the word's boundaries.
True
5. Knowing the words for things helps us see them better.
True
6. We do not fully understand a word unless we can define it.
True
7. When people debate a tropic, understanding is greatly helped by their taking the time to define the key terms
True
8. Etymology gives us word histories.
True
9. Pocket dictionaries are sufficient guides for a critical study of word meanings.
False
10. The word ohm comes from the Sanskrit language and means the sound of creation.
True
11. According to most dictionaries, there is more than one acceptable spelling of the word cooperate.
True
12. The term French leave means to say good-bye with a big kiss.
False
13. The prefix in the words insignificant and inflammable means not in Latin.
True
14. The following words all contain the sound called a schwa; mass, polite, placement, bogus, visible.
False
15. The word nausea can be pronounced at least three different ways.
False
16. The word round can function as six different parts of speech; adjective, noun, transitive and intransitive verb, adverb, and preposition.
False
17. Egregious comes from a Latin word meaning standing out from the herd.
True
18. The word nadir in the phrase "the nadir of politics" means the highest point.
False
19. A cogent argument is a convincing one.
True
20. The words decimate means to dice something up into pieces.
True
1. When Frederick Douglass grasped the concept of abolition,he understood it was possible for him to become free.
False
2. Words can be used to do a better or worse job of describing experiences but can never be more than translations of the experiences themselves.
False
3. A dictionary can help us think better when we use it to clear up word confusion.
True
4. Definitions of a word show the word's boundaries.
True
5. Knowing the words for things helps us see them better.
True
6. We do not fully understand a word unless we can define it.
True
7. When people debate a tropic, understanding is greatly helped by their taking the time to define the key terms
True
8. Etymology gives us word histories.
True
9. Pocket dictionaries are sufficient guides for a critical study of word meanings.
False
10. The word ohm comes from the Sanskrit language and means the sound of creation.
True
11. According to most dictionaries, there is more than one acceptable spelling of the word cooperate.
True
12. The term French leave means to say good-bye with a big kiss.
False
13. The prefix in the words insignificant and inflammable means not in Latin.
True
14. The following words all contain the sound called a schwa; mass, polite, placement, bogus, visible.
False
15. The word nausea can be pronounced at least three different ways.
False
16. The word round can function as six different parts of speech; adjective, noun, transitive and intransitive verb, adverb, and preposition.
False
17. Egregious comes from a Latin word meaning standing out from the herd.
True
18. The word nadir in the phrase "the nadir of politics" means the highest point.
False
19. A cogent argument is a convincing one.
True
20. The words decimate means to dice something up into pieces.
True
Monday, January 19, 2009
Jan20 Summary (CRCB C13, Reading beyond the words)
Critical reading means to asking and answering questions about your reading material at all level thinking.
Critical reading comprehension involves challenging yourself to understand what you read in your textbooks at different levels of complexity. When reading you must a as certain level of knowledge in what you are reading and you must always be trying to interpret what the author is saying because a lot of time it may not be in front of you in black and white.
Bloom’s taxonomy lists six levels of critical thinking –knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation- that you can use to deepen your understanding of textbook material. By creating and answering questions at each of these levels, you will be better able to predict the kind of questions your instructor will ask on an exam and better prepared to answer them. Everything the author is saying to you must be taken in to account in what he may be trying to accomplish by getting his work across.
As a reader you should look through all of this to try to learn what is trying to be put across. Once you have read what has been presented evaluates and tries to summarize what you got out of this reading.
Critical reading comprehension involves challenging yourself to understand what you read in your textbooks at different levels of complexity. When reading you must a as certain level of knowledge in what you are reading and you must always be trying to interpret what the author is saying because a lot of time it may not be in front of you in black and white.
Bloom’s taxonomy lists six levels of critical thinking –knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation- that you can use to deepen your understanding of textbook material. By creating and answering questions at each of these levels, you will be better able to predict the kind of questions your instructor will ask on an exam and better prepared to answer them. Everything the author is saying to you must be taken in to account in what he may be trying to accomplish by getting his work across.
As a reader you should look through all of this to try to learn what is trying to be put across. Once you have read what has been presented evaluates and tries to summarize what you got out of this reading.
Jan20 Exercise (CRCB C13, Reading beyond the words)
Learning Journal, P435
The word taxonomy means the branch of science concerned with classification.
Exercise 13a, Knowledge Level,P438
1. B
Your proposal is the work of a fool with one eye and half a brain.
2. C
Employees with the most seniority are best at making a decision that affects us all.
3. D
Because it can lead to a win-win solution.
Exercise 13c, Application Level, P444
1. 60
2. 1026
3. 1
The word taxonomy means the branch of science concerned with classification.
Exercise 13a, Knowledge Level,P438
1. B
Your proposal is the work of a fool with one eye and half a brain.
2. C
Employees with the most seniority are best at making a decision that affects us all.
3. D
Because it can lead to a win-win solution.
Exercise 13c, Application Level, P444
1. 60
2. 1026
3. 1
Jan20 Exercise (TFY C1, Observation)
P38 Chapter Quiz
1. Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for Answers. On the contrary, observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel Scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish.
False
2. The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory.
True
3. In thinking, the correctness of our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions.
True
4. Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe.
True
5. An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his bath, discovered the means of measuring the value of an irregular solid by the displacement of water.
True
6. Agassiz was simply too busy to give his student all the assistance he needed.
False
7. Perception and sensation are synonyms.
True
8. It is difficult to feel sensation and to think at the same time. If we want to feel whether a pair of new shoes fits properly, we have to pay attention.
True
9. Assimilation, according to Piaget, is an experience of easily understanding something that readily fits into our preexisting schemes or world view.
True
10. The word thinking, according to the dictionary, has only one meaning.
False
1. Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for Answers. On the contrary, observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel Scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish.
False
2. The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory.
True
3. In thinking, the correctness of our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions.
True
4. Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe.
True
5. An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his bath, discovered the means of measuring the value of an irregular solid by the displacement of water.
True
6. Agassiz was simply too busy to give his student all the assistance he needed.
False
7. Perception and sensation are synonyms.
True
8. It is difficult to feel sensation and to think at the same time. If we want to feel whether a pair of new shoes fits properly, we have to pay attention.
True
9. Assimilation, according to Piaget, is an experience of easily understanding something that readily fits into our preexisting schemes or world view.
True
10. The word thinking, according to the dictionary, has only one meaning.
False
Jan20 Summary (TFY C1, Observation)
From this chapter, I understand why thinking skills depend upon the ability to observe well.
Observation is a process of sensing, perceiving and thinking. Careful observation can help us see details that contain the key to unlocking problems or arriving at insights. It also helps us discover new knowledge. It also requires us to stay awake, take out time, given full attention, and suspend thinking in an attitude of listening. Sensing is collecting data through the sense organs. Perceiving is holding sense data in consciousness until we can categorize and interpret it. It requires us to stay awake, take our time, give full attention and suspend thinking in an attitude of listening. It help us to discover new knowledge, self understanding and recognize our strengths and weaknesses.
At last, the rewards of cultivating observation skills are self-understanding, creativity, rapture power, and wonder.
Observation is a process of sensing, perceiving and thinking. Careful observation can help us see details that contain the key to unlocking problems or arriving at insights. It also helps us discover new knowledge. It also requires us to stay awake, take out time, given full attention, and suspend thinking in an attitude of listening. Sensing is collecting data through the sense organs. Perceiving is holding sense data in consciousness until we can categorize and interpret it. It requires us to stay awake, take our time, give full attention and suspend thinking in an attitude of listening. It help us to discover new knowledge, self understanding and recognize our strengths and weaknesses.
At last, the rewards of cultivating observation skills are self-understanding, creativity, rapture power, and wonder.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Where Do You Stand?
Where do you stand with regard to critical thinking? Critical Thinking is the most common, useful and important ability of people, and it is one of the best way to absorb knowledge and develop skills.
FEET: What do I stand for as a foundation of critical thinking?
The foundation of critical thinking is observation, analysis and evaluation.
STOMACH: What upsets me about critical thinking?
I don’t know whether critical thinking will cause a simple thing to become a difficult one. And it’ll spend many times on a simple problem that can be solved for a minute.
HEART: What do I love about critical thinking?
I love to input and output ideas in an efficient and scientific way, avoiding disorder and useless information and errors.
HANDS: What do I feel about critical thinking?
In China, critical thinking is combined with traditional thinking abilities from ancient times and a new philosophy which can be used in vast varieties of fields.
EARS: What do I hear about critical thinking?
Many majors aimed at training critical thinking ability have appeared, for instance, history, politics, philosophy, etc.
EYES: What do I see about critical thinking?
Critical thinking will broaden your mind, and, the most significant, it will distinguish you from the errors.
BRAIN: What do I think about critical thinking?
In order to master critical thinking ability, I have practiced in reading, speaking and writing from childhood, and continue my study till remote future.
FEET: What do I stand for as a foundation of critical thinking?
The foundation of critical thinking is observation, analysis and evaluation.
STOMACH: What upsets me about critical thinking?
I don’t know whether critical thinking will cause a simple thing to become a difficult one. And it’ll spend many times on a simple problem that can be solved for a minute.
HEART: What do I love about critical thinking?
I love to input and output ideas in an efficient and scientific way, avoiding disorder and useless information and errors.
HANDS: What do I feel about critical thinking?
In China, critical thinking is combined with traditional thinking abilities from ancient times and a new philosophy which can be used in vast varieties of fields.
EARS: What do I hear about critical thinking?
Many majors aimed at training critical thinking ability have appeared, for instance, history, politics, philosophy, etc.
EYES: What do I see about critical thinking?
Critical thinking will broaden your mind, and, the most significant, it will distinguish you from the errors.
BRAIN: What do I think about critical thinking?
In order to master critical thinking ability, I have practiced in reading, speaking and writing from childhood, and continue my study till remote future.
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