During class on Friday September 2, we learned further about the colonies of early America. Continued from the previous class on August 31, we received more information about Jamestown, New England and the middle colonies which consist of New Netherlands and Pennsylvania. Though these colonies may be alike, they also had many differences. I found it interesting to hear how each colony had to learn how to survive though many unfortunately learned the hard way. For example, Jamestown was a colony that lost many of their people due to famine and diseases that were brought over from Europe. Due the harsh conditions and starvation it lead to a population of 150 to be reduced to 38 people. After learning more about the early English settlements, there were very few aspects that I didn't enjoy during the class time. I think one area of improvement could be the way that notes are spread. I know that I had a problem as well as other classmates with how to give the information that we read into a short summary without using many words. Besides that little problem, I enjoyed the class lesson and would like to learn as much as I can about these settlements.
Do you find that when you're sharing you or your classmates have too much information? Or too little? Would it help if we went over what kinds of information should be included in notes vs. what details are unnecessary?
ReplyDeleteOn Friday, September 9th we started off class looking at some facts about 9/11. Then, we took notes on the colonies, mostly the northern colonies. After that we watched a movie about what life would be like in a northern colony. The 9/11 information was all interesting to me. I really like learning about that historical event in our history. The only thing I thought that could have improved class is if we watched a movie on 9/11 or something of that magnitude.
ReplyDeleteJonathan, thanks for the post. I'm going to repost it as a separate blog. Next time, you can post the class scribe information as a new blog rather than a comment. :)
ReplyDeleteEmily, you did a nice job restating what we did in class. I couldn't agree more with the improvement area being taking a whole chunk of information and pulling out only the important aspects and narrowing it down into bullet points or a short summary. Overall, I think Jonathan's statement about watching a movie is more helpful because I am more of a visual learning and when we watched The Battle of Lexington and Concord movie, I was able to understand it much more thoroughly than having just to read from the textbook. Lastly, the most helpful thing we do in class is when we go over the material from our homework and clarify any points we didn't understand.
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