Vocab. Quiz Recovery:Metacognition
Metacognition is the “awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes.”
To earn back some of the points lost on your quiz, follow the rules for metacognition:
1)Get approval from Mrs. Ross to do metacognition for thequiz in question.
2)On another sheet of paper, write or typeeachsentencein which you wrote the incorrect word, but this time, write the CORRECT word. Be sure to spell it correctly and use the appropriate ending.CIRCLEthe correct vocabulary word in each sentence and underline the correct context clues that indicate that your new choice is correct.
3)Below the sentence, write a clear explanation of why you thoughtthe incorrect answerwas correct. Just saying “I guessed” or “I don’t know” is not good enough. Explain what confused you about the sentence that in turn led you to select the wrong word.
4)***Explain how the context-based logic leads to the correct answer. To receive credit you must convey to me that you now understand the material and have corrected your way of thinking.***
5)You can receive up to half of the points you lost for each incorrect word, depending on how well you show that you have learned the concept. A poorly done correction may earn zero points.
6)You MUST staple the original quiz to the back of the metacognition paper in order to receive credit. You must submit the metacognition within one cycle of the day you received your quiz back.
7)Errors in spelling and capitalizationstand. If you can find a way to show why certain endings are needed in the given context, I will consider points for those, also.
Sample sentence from literary terms instead of vocabulary:
One of the ___symbols___ in the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fence representing the institutionalized prejudice that drove the Nazis to separate from Jews for the purpose of persecution.
Good metacognition: At first, I thought the fence wasa metaphor comparing the fence to prejudice. The context clue: representing the institutionalized prejudice that drove the Nazis to separate from Jews for the purpose of persecution can only indicate a symbol because a symbol is a physical thing that represents something beyond itself, just like the fence represents prejudice.
Poor metacognition: I thought the fence was a metaphor because I forgot what a symbol was, and I
knew it wasn’t a simile or an example of personification. Metaphor seemed close enough at the time.