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than that of last semester, for several reasons. The weather for one, it is very hard to stay

focused when t is nice and hot outside. I also felt like my classes were more challenging

than last semester's. Most of my classes involved reading, my art of dance

class especially. We didn't have a set text for this class, but the teacher handed out

packets ofreading assignments from several different books that she had, with these

readings we had to keep reading journals. In these journals we wrote about what we read

and how we felt about what was said in the text. This is mostly where my Selecting Main

Idea Skills came in handy. Before learning skills that would develop my SMI, it was very

hard for me to elaborate on what I had just read, even if it was right after I had read the

material. I would usually have to go back and find the answers to wha the questions

. . .
Although I wasn't able to compleely keep up with my

classes most of the time, I had a good hang on things.

When I read assignments that required answering questions, I read the qustions

through first and then read the passage so that when I came across one of the answers I

would recognize it, without too much hesitation. It helped me to complete my assignments on time, I felt as though if I didn't learn

these new skills, I would be stuck trying to complee one task, and as a result have no

time left to complete other assignments, which would lead to work being passed in late.

Skimming and surveying didn't really work out much for me, because I never

really knew what to look for when doing it. I did i once and it didn't really help much, so

I ruled it out as being too time-consuming and at the same time a waste of my time. So my

assignments were passed in on time and I was able to keep up with my classes, and as a

result my grades are just as good as last semester or maybe even better.

Overall I would say that I accomplished all of my goals, I came up with A good

study plan that I stuck with most of the time and I kept good grades.

I think choosing to develop my SMI skills was a good decision for me becase I

think it helped me more than any of the other skills would have. I

would usually recognize the central theme, or more the subject, of the piece but it really

didn't help in any of the tasksthat I had to complete for my classes. were

asking, before I could of answer them.

Reflecting on the other hand did help when used, but was used very rarely. And again

helped with keeping the good grades rolling in. When

I read something that was appealing to me, I paused and thought about it, I even asked

myself all sorts of questions that may have elped me arrive at the answer to the question;

why? This, when used helped me to understand what I was reading better. As I said before in

College your ability to read and comprehend is one of the most important aspects of

success, so after these last couple of weeks, I think that my ability to dothis is much

better.

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