Email Etiquette
Study Techniques
Reading Strategies
Brain Science
Note-Taking
100

Give me an example of an appropriate way to end an email.

Sincerely, 

Thank you, 

Your student, 

Have a great day, 

100

What is the technique called that structures focus time and diffuse time into timed sections?

Pomodoro Technique

100

What is CUBIE used for?

It is a way to read nonfiction that helps you gain a better and deeper understanding of the text.

100

Where are you trying to get information stored when learning and studying?

Long Term Memory

100

What is the key part of Cornell Notes that makes it different from other notes?

The Cues

200

How should an email to your teacher sound?

Formal

200
This is the best way to study that requires you to remember an answer without looking it up.

Retrieval Practice

200

What does the B in CUBIE stand for?

Box the main idea.

200
What makes connections in your brain by sending the signals that cause you to think?

Neurons (synapse) 

200

What should you have at the top of your Cornell Notes?

Title/Topic and Learning Goal/Objective 

300

What button do you click on in Gmail to write a new email?

Compose

300

Give me a good example of a DIFFUSE break, and tell me why it is a good way to diffuse.

Something that doesn't require any focus.

300

How do you do the I in CUBIE?

By writing annotations of what you think certain parts mean in the margins.

300

How much space do you have in your long-term memory?

So much that you will never fill it up.

300

How do you know if you have enough CUES?

If every note has a home.

400

What do you put in the SUBJECT section of an email?

A title summarizing what your email is about.

400

What is it called when you create a sentence or phrase with the first letter of each word you have to remember?

Mnemonics 

400

What part of CUBIE should always be done first? 

B - Box the main idea 

If you don't know the main idea, you won't know what to CIRCLE or UNDERLINE or INFER

400

What is the part of your brain that temporarily stores information?

Hippocampus 

400

What should you do if the teacher is going too fast and won't slow down?

Get down the key words and get help later from the teacher or trusted friend. 

500

How long should you give a teacher to respond to your email?

48 hours

500

Why would you want to eat a frog?

You always get the hardest thing done first.

500

How many B's should you have per paragraph?

No more than two.

500

What are the spines that grow on a neuron called? (They called them toes in the video.)

Dendrites 

500

How many notes should fit into a cue?

No more than two notes per cue. 

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