The Analytic Middle School Student provides Cognitive - Analytic Strategies and Techniques (Cogetics) for 5th through 9th grade students. It develops learn-to-learn abilities so students can think, write, read, and problem-solve critically in the context of constructing subject matter understanding.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 - YOU AND YOUR ANALYTIC SELF 1
- You Are Analytic By Nature 2
- The "Why?" Question 3
- Being An Analytic Student 4
CHAPTER 2 - YOU AND YOUR SUPER-TERRIFIC, EXTRA-COLOSSAL, FANTASTIC BRAIN 5
- Analysis 2-1: Would You Like to Swing on a Star? 7
- Analysis 2-2: A Picture of Your Thinking 8
- Analysis 2-3: Write Your Thoughts Out 9
- The Basics of Analysis 10
- Extending the Analysis 10
CHAPTER 3 - WHERE ARE THOSE RESOURCES? 11
- Analysis 3-1: Hide and Seek 12
- Analysis 3-2: Seek and Find 13
- Analysis 3-3: Think About the Resources 15
- Analysis 3-4: Write About the Resources 15
- Analysis 3-5: Be an Analytic Thinker 16
- Analysis 3-6: The Hand 18
- Analysis 3-7: Food 20
CHAPTER 4 - WHAT IS A CONSEQUENCE? 23
- How to Develop Consequences 25
- How to Strike Consequential Lightning 26
- Analysis 4-1: Use Your Imagination 27
- Analysis 4-2: Sneakers and Consequences 28
- Analysis 4-3: The Consequences of the Hand 30
- Analysis 4-4: The Consequences of Food 32
- Questions 34
CHAPTER 5 - LEARNING TO LEARN 35
- What is Subject Matter? 35
- Learning Subject Matter 36
- Understanding Subject Matter - Four Main Ideas 37
- Learning With Cogetics 40
- Questions 41
CHAPTER 6 - ANALYTIC WRITING 45
- The Writing Process 45
- Analysis 6-1: The Writing Process 47
- Analysis 6-2: Steps 1 and 2 - Pre-writing and Drafting 47
- Analysis 6-3: Step 3 - Revising 49
- Analysis 6-4: Step 4 - Proofreading 50
- Analysis 6-5: Pre-writing - On Your Own 51
- Analysis 6-6: Another Topic 57
- Exercises 58
CHAPTER 7 - ANALYTIC READING 59
- Introduction
- Analysis 7-1: Get the Logic 60
- Analysis 7-2: Discover the Meaning 60
- Analysis 7-3: Find the Resources 61
- Analysis 7-4: Put it All Together 61
- The Reading Process 62
- Analysis 7-5: Reading and Science (The Large Intestine) 64
- Analysis 7-6: Reading and Technology (Computers) 66
- Summary of Reading and Analyzing 70
- Exercises 71
CHAPTER 8 - SHARPEN YOUR LEARN-TO-LEARN ABILITIES 73
- Science
- Analysis 8-1: Human Blood 74
- Analysis 8-2: Immunization 75
- Mathematics
- Analysis 8-3: Why is Math Important? 76
- Analysis 8-4: Fractions 77
- Analysis 8-5: Visual Fractions 79
- English
- Analysis 8-6: The Comma 80
- Automotive Technology
- Analysis 8-7: Auto Body Repair 81
- Music
- Analysis 8-8: You and the Activities and the Music 82
- Analysis 8-9: Musical Resources 83
- Analysis 8-10: Writing About Music 83
- Analysis 8-11: What is the Meaning or Purpose of Music? 84
- Analysis 8-12: What are the Consequences of Music? 84
- Analysis 8-13: Conduct a Symphony of Your Ideas on Music 85
- Visual Arts
- Analysis 8-14: Making Something Original 86
- Problem-Solving
- Analysis 8-15: Recycling 88
- Analysis 8-16: Fix the Recycling Display 89
- Analysis 8-17: The Case of the Vacant Lot 91
- Analysis 8-18: Music, Art, History, and the Vacant Lot 93
- Exercises 94
- Appendix A - Pointers for Developing Language Frames 97
- Appendix B - Two-Stage Critical Language Frames 101
- Appendix C - Three-Stage Critical Language Frames 105
- Appendix D - Four-Stage Critical Language Frames 115
- Appendix E - Problem Solving Displays 123
- 124 p.
- 2001, ISBN 1-879611-19-8.
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