Textbook Project, 75 points
Textbook Project, 75 points
Use complete sentences for
your answers. Do NOT use direct quotes or phrases from the chapter. You will
not get credit for anything that is quoted or taken directly from the text.
Link to Textbook:
You will be looking
specifically at pages 58-70: Mass Media
and it’s Messages
In college, you
will be asked to read many textbooks. This can and often does turn into an
exercise in futility as you kind of sort of read the textbook but not really,
wasting your time and learning little. The following provides a rubric to help
increase your understanding of the important ideas in the textbook while also
encouraging you to make the material meaningful. The answers you provide below will give you
an outline of a chapter. The more
thorough your work, the better you’ll be prepared for class, tests and essays.
Depending on what
types of tests you are given in a given class, you might focus on different
parts of the outline. For example, for a multiple choice test that emphasizes
definitions, your vocab would be important. For an essay test, in contrast,
your focus would probably be on the concepts raised in the headings sections.
But understanding the vocab is always necessary.
Use your own words
and do NOT quote. Make sure your work does not resemble anyone else’s work.
Like in the Internet News Project, format your project like I have it below.
Read ALL
directions!
1.
Preview:
a.
Preview the chapter. What do you notice as important
sections? List the important sections here.
b.
Find the “Key Take Aways”. Write down the key take
aways in YOUR WORDS.
c.
Type any questions or prompts for answers that are
listed in these sections (type these exactly how they are listed in the
textbook and then put the question in your words). You will have ten for this
section. Note that you will be answering these questions at the end of the
project. The idea it to read smartly and read well. You will include the
beginning section’s questions and the exercises at the end (Yes, you may cut
and paste directly from the document but you must re-word the material into your
words).
i. example:
Directly quoted: Explain the different ways mass media affects different
cultures (p. 58).
ii.In my own words: How does media
that everyone has access to change and influence people from all over the
world.
2.
Vocab: For this section, record and define
vocabulary in your words. Write down major concepts from the section headings
and other vocabulary that seems important. For example, the first section
heading is “Mass Media and its Messages”. From that heading, you should have
Mass Media as a vocabulary word. You should have at least 10 vocab words taken
from the headings and from your reading, Not everyone’s vocabulary will be the
same.
3.
For each of the vocabulary words in #2 that you
find, do the following:
a.
Write down the word and explain what the word means in
your words in the context of this chapter.
b.
why is that vocabulary word important to the author’s
points? (Look at key takeaways for ideas)
4.
Headings (there are 10 major and minor headings
in this chapter). For each section, read the main heading (in bold) and scan
the paragraphs following the heading. Each heading section is a “chunk”.
a.
Start with “Mass Media and its Messages”
b.
Write down the main idea in a complete sentence for
each chunk in YOUR words (so you will have ten main ideas)
Remember: You are doing this in order to
UNDERSTAND the chapter so you can do better on tests! Don't just write stuff
that doesn't make sense. MAKE SENSE.
5.
Visuals: Look at any included visuals and tables
(there are three).
a.
Make a brief one sentence claim of the MAIN IDEA of
each (You will have three one sentence claims).
i. Don’t tell what the visual does but what it
argues.
ii.These sentences should provide a
conclusion about the visual. You will not write: This visual argues about
technology. You will write: This visual shows how as technology use increases
social interaction decreases.
6.
Meaningful: write a paragraph about what this
chapter has to do with you. Be specific.
7.
Answer the questions you wrote down at the
beginning of the assignment. These
questions should be answered fully.
8.
When you are done, you will turn your guide into
me:
a.
Previewing/10 Questions in your words (5 points)
b.
Key terms defined in Your words (14 points)
c.
Main Ideas from the headings (20 points)
d.
Main Ideas from the visuals (6)
e.
Meaningful (5 points)
f.
Questions answered: (25 points)
g.
extra credit: extra vocabulary
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