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

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

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

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

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

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