Saturday, March 14, 2009

Chapter 10 CRCB Textbook Marking Mind Map


CRCB : Chapter 10 Textbook Marking Exercise

“CRCB”: Chapter 10 Textbook Marking Exercise Learning Journal Page 319:
What do you already know about textbook marking? Do you apply what you know? Do you have a favorite strategy? If so, what is it?

I'm not sure about the correct ways to do textbook marking. When I mark in a book, I use my instinct and I seem to over-highlight the page. I see no purpose in doing that because it doesn’t point out important notes or topics.Perhaps after reading this chapter and learning how to properly mark a textbook, It will feel different.

Exercise 10b: Reading: Lifting a Veil on Sex SlaveryAnswer the prereading questions. Then read the article, “Lifting the Veil on Sex Slavery,” and apply the four textbook marking steps that you have just learned.

1. Based on the title of the article, what do you expect it to be about?I think this article is going to be based on exposing sex slavery.

2. What do you already know about the Taliban’s treatment of women?
I don’t know anything about the Taliban’s treatment of women.

3. Are you familiar with the following vocabulary words? If not, look them up in a dictionary before you start reading:
A. Burkas – a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan
B. Tantamount – equivalent in effect or value
C. Degradation – changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
D. Complicity – guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
E. Revering – to think about someone or something with respect and awe.

4. What question might you expect this article to answer?
How should we life the veil on sex slavery?
Using your textbook marking, answer the following questions in the space provided.

1. What is the main idea of this article?
The main idea of this article is that women would be abducted by al-Qeuda from their villages, and either married off against their will and left soon after or put into brothels sold as sex slaves.

2. What does “lifting the veil” in the title mean to you?
The title “lifting the veil” to me means that, one part of these women’s culture to wear a veil over them. The veils they wear are sacred to them. When al-Qeuda would come and abduct them, these women had no time to even put their veils on. So not only where they “robbed” of their freedom, but they could not even wear their veils. The veils came off and they were now sex slaves.

3. Who is lifting the veil?
Well, how I see it is al-Qeuda is “lifting the veil” in this article. They are taking those veils away from those women.

4. The author said that Afghanistan made a mockery of the claim that the brutal restrictions placed on women were actually a way of revering and protecting them. What did the author mean by this statement?
As you can see by the definition above, to revere someone means to give them respect and hold them up high. Afghanistan in this story did nothing of the sort. They did everything but give these women respect. They actually took it away.

Chapter 10 CRCB Textbook Markings Summary

CRCB Textbook Markings Summary

Textbook marking is a systematic way of marking, highlighting, and labeling ideas to show how they are related to each other and which are most important. It also helps you to remember what you had read. At the end of the study-reading stage of textbook reading, you should look for and mark these items: main ideas, major supporting details, and new vocabulary. Beyond these three basic elements of textbook marking, you should use your experience in lecture and lab to decide if you need to mark more. Always mark information that is unclear; to remind yourself to find out what it means before you are tested on the material.

Chapter 5 - Think for yourself - Assumptions Mindmap

Chapter 5 - TFY - Assumptions Summary

An assumption is something we take for granted, something we accept prematurely as being true, something we don’t check out carefully.It can be conscious or unconscious, warranted or unwarranted. Unconscious and unwarranted assumptions can lead to faulty reasoning, whereas conscious and warranted assumptions can be useful tools for problem solving.Another form of hidden assumption, where we try to fit new experience into old or prejudiced categories is the stereotype assumption.

Chapter 7 - Using Inference to Implied Main Ideas - Mindmap

CRCB Ch. 7 Summary (Inferences)

Chapter 7 is about Using Inference to Identify Implied Main IdeasIn order to fully understand a reading assignment, you need to read the material and combine what is stated with the additional information you generate using inference as tool. While inference is a skill you practice every day, inferring meaning from textbooks and other college reading material requires you to use specific strategies such as detecting an author’s bias, nothing comparisons, and recognizing information gaps.