LARN 011 C3D3
After reading section 1.1, pages 7 through 11 using the PQ5R method, start the following in class:
1. Use the PQ5R or SQ5R method to prepare a study guide for section 1.2, pages 12 through 17, of your chemistry text.
Optional: If you wish to review the method, one or more information sheets describing the format to be used for the Preview (Survey), Question, Read, Record, Recite, Rethink, Review method of reading your textbook can be downloaded from the folder at this link: LARN 010 PQ5R SQ5R ( or from Google Drive>Students Resources>Handouts>LARN 010 PQ5R SQ5R). You can use this 5m 7s video to refresh your mind on Cornell and SQ4R note taking and the reading of informational texts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7vLLeo738Y.
Background Information:
Journaling Procedures for this year:
Journal entries are your personal responses and reflections to a question posed about the chemistry we are currently studying in class. All Journal entries should be made in the following manner.
- Journal entries should be written on sheets of three holed 8.5 inch by 11 inch ruled paper in your spiral bound notebook. Each page which has been oriented such that the three holes are on the left side of the page will be called an upward facing page.
- It is recommended to reserve the first four pages of your Journal for Table of Contents pages.
- Use blue or black pen ink to number each upward facing page of your Journal notebook with consecutive odd numbers starting with the number 1 by writing the number in the upper right corner white space of each upward facing page.
- Journal entries should be written in your Journal notebook on the next available page after what was entered the last time you wrote in your journal.
- In the upper right corner white space of each upward facing page, underneath the page number, write your hand in number within a circle followed by your name.
- Journal entries should be numbered consecutively to the left of the vertically ruled red marginal line by [month, day] that the question was assigned (e.g. 9/17) followed on the next line by the journal designation, e.g. J11A written within a circle, or the learning activity reference number (LARN), 011A , written in a circle.
- If there are two journals assigned on a particular day, the first is labeled A, the second B, the third C, and so forth. The letters A,B, C, … should be CAPITAL letters. If a journal asks more than one question, each question should be designated with a lower case letter a, b, c, …
- Each journal entry should either be at least a paragraph of exemplary writing and penmanship concerning a single topic, or be a concept map relating chemistry terms.
- After you record your journal entry, unless you are just at the bottom of the page, use a pen draw a horizontal line across the journal page below the last word in your journal entry after skipping a blank line on the ruled paper. The next journal entry will be recorded either under the ruled line inscribed at the bottom of the skipped line, or at the top of the next page if you are at the bottom of the page and no ink has bled through the page.
- If you are keeping Table of Contents pages for your Journal, record the day number, date, and page number for today’s journal entry in the appropriate space in the Table of Contents.
2. The first journal focus question for today, J11A, is :
What are the advantages of the PQ5R (also known as SQ5R) method of active reading?
After you record your journal entry, unless you are just at the bottom of the page, use a pen draw a horizontal line across the journal page below the last word in your journal entry after skipping a blank line on the ruled paper. On the next line to the left of the red margin, put the day number for the next school day in a circle and write that days date under the circled day number. If you are keeping Table of Contents pages for your Journal, record the day number, date, and page number for today’s journal entry in the appropriate space in the Table of Contents.
3. Chemistry is the study of matter and the changes that various types of matter undergo from the viewpoint that every bit of matter being made of extremely small particles of matter called atoms. A chemical is any sample of matter that appears to be one thing, that is, something that is homogeneous in appearance. Chemicals may be substances or solutions (which are homogeneous appearing mixtures). The second journal focus question, J11B, for today is:
What are some ways in which chemistry affects my daily life?
After you record your journal entry, unless you are just at the bottom of the page, use a pen draw a horizontal line across the journal page below the last word in your journal entry.
Tomorrow’s journal entry will be recorded either under the ruled line inscribed at the bottom of the skipped line, or at the top of the next page if you are at the bottom of the page and no ink has bled through the page.
4. Take out one of the unlabeled spiral bound notebooks to label it as your Laboratory Notebook.
- On the front cover of your notebook write your first and last name with a permanent marker. Under your name write Honors Chemistry followed by your section number (S01, S02, S03, S04, S05, or S06), and underneath that, the title “Laboratory Notebook“.
- On the first page of your laboratory notebook in ink print the title “Laboratory Notebook” centered about three lines above the center of the page. Skip a line and on the next line write Honors Chemistry 4610-[your section number] centered under the books title. Then skip another line and print your first and last names centered on the page.
- Now prepare a Table of Contents page on the front side of the second sheet of 8.5 inch by 11 inch piece of three holed, lined paper in your laboratory notebook. In the upper right corner white space write your hand in number within a circle followed by your name. Write the title, Laboratory Investigations, centered on the pages first blue line. Then centered on the next blue line, write Table of Contents. Set up one column to the left of the red line marking the left margin and draw a double vertical line down the center of the page from the space between the words of and Contents to the bottom of the page. Divide the space between the red marginal line and the center double line into two columns. Starting in the margin, label the tops of the first three (narrow) columns that you have constructed as Learning Activity Reference Number, Date, and Page Number, and then label the top of the wide column on the right as Topic of Investigation.
The following information may be of interest to those who have time left in their 45 minute study period:
Look at the Home Inquiry Activity on page 6 of your text. Locate a source of one-quarter cup of starch for use at home on that day.