1. Higher Level Thinking/Questioning
Cognitive Learning Levels
Annotation Types
Question Answer Relationships

2. Levels of Cognitive Learning
Evaluation: Judges values of information
Ex: Assess whether the French Revolution was successful
Synthesis: Builds a pattern from diverse sources
Ex: Construct a diagram comparing historical perspective from various sources
Analysis: Separates information from sources in order to better understand material
Ex: Break down an author’s viewpoint in an editorial
Application: Applying knowledge to a new situation
Ex: Essay
Comprehension: Understanding information
Ex: Answering questions on a worksheet
Knowledge: recall of data
Ex: Multiple choice test

3. Notes, Studying & Annotations
Time = good study habits
Amount of time not important, the quality of study is important
Studying must be continual
Historical events and interpretations are building-blocks of each other
You must continue to review material on nightly basis
Notes: essential/ the basis to studying
If taken properly- notes can be annotated and continually studies (connect to point above about continual studying)
Annotations:
notes and reading
encourages educational participation
Annotate:
Key ideas; Questions; Reactions; Connections; Paraphrase

4. Annotation Types Key Ideas: Questions: Reactions: Connections:
Main points, important concepts, reoccurring themes thru text
Questions:
Write questions in margins
Reactions:
Opinions & what stands out to you
Connections:
Historical patterns
Contemporary issues
Other Points to Note:
Symbols- create a key
Paraphrase- reword paragraphs
Respond to text- opinions or question to what author has written

5. What year was the Constitution written in?
Regurgitate the answer- No analysis takes place- We need to think more critically!
What year was the Constitution written in?
Which U.S. President was assassinated in 1963?
Which civil rights activist was assassinated in 1968?
Which U.S. President hopeful was assassinated in 1968?
What year did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
What year did President Bush first take office?
In what year did the war in Iraq begin?

6. Political Cartoons What is the man reading?
Explain why the smoke is shaped the way it is.
What is going through this child’s mind?
Do you recognize the different levels of questions? 2nd and 3rd question are higher level

7. Political Cartoons Cont’
Who does the man in the top hat represent?
What significance does his list carry?
What is the irony presented to the reader?
Cartoon gives the date, can the cartoon’s purpose connect to today also?

8. Develop two higher-level questions for this political cartoon

9. Comprehension
Comprehension is important- but… it is the stepping stone to assessing something’s value or analyzing something’s importance
Why did Israel agree to release 256 Palestinian prisoners?
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called them "heroes of freedom".
Israel agreed to the releases as a gesture of support to Mr Abbas whose Fatah faction is locked in a bitter power struggle with its Hamas rivals.
None of the freed prisoners is from Hamas, which took over the Gaza Strip from Fatah in deadly fighting in June.
Many Palestinians are saying that freeing only 256 Palestinian prisoners out of some 10,000 is not enough, says the BBC's Ali Maqbool in Ramallah.

10. Analysis
You will read essay written about the failure of peace between Israel and terrorist factions inside Lebanon and Palestine.
Annotate the article and focus on the author’s arguments and support for arguments
Bring articles and annotations to class tomorrow and be prepared for a discussion
Directions to article found on next slide

11. Online Assignment Go to Honors World Assign. page
Click link to article, “Why they Fight…”
Again, while reading, annotate and your annotations will be checked off for completion
Due on Thurs, July 26