Friday, September 9, 2011

i can learn meanings of words from surrounding context

i learned that visual aids are there to help you better
understand the text that you are reading.

I Can Convert Percents Greater than 100% to Decimals

Today I learned how to do percents into decimals without using a caculater. I also learned that if you move the percent over to the left two spaces then it would give you the decimal. And if you move it to the right two times you will have a percent.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

I Can Convert Percents Less than 1% to Decimals (Courseware/Exempt)

i am learning to convert decimals into percents and percents into decimals. I't is actually kinda hard. But i'm working on it.

i can learn meanings of words from surrounding context

i learned that if you don't know the meaning of a word,
you should read the sentence before it and the sentence
after it and you might be able to infer what the meaning
of the word is by it's surrounding context.

I can identify various types of poetry

today i went back to the different types of poems i wanted to make sure i understand them a little bit better. I wrote all the different ones there are. Here are some i ddnt quite know .. Elegy is a type of poem written to commerate someone who is dead. A quatrain is a 4-line stanza with varios meters and rhyme schemes. A Tercet is a 3-line stanza; when all 3-lines rhytm they are called a triplet.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

i can use Fractions and Percents (Courseware/Exempt)

Today i learned how to mutliply percents and decimals. I also feel that i am gettiing better at the problem sovling.

I can provide formal citations in MLA format to give credit for ideas and words taken from sources

I learnd how to use citition. Its really important if you get information of some sort from any website or magazine. You should provide the citation so you can also help people as a referance to have something to look back at. Also there is a certain order when you do citition how it should go its pretty long so i wrote the steps down.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

i can learn a strategy for long-term improvement of my vocabulary

i learned the definition of 4o new words today and
i took a test to see if i remembered them and i
remembered about 35 or 36 of them.

I can use mental math to solve problems with fractions and percents.

Today i learned how to divide fractions and percents together. I am getting better at this kind of stuff.