This week, I hadn't had enough time to read my free-reading every night as I wanted to. That was okay though, because I had to read my Biology textbook and Norton. In my Norton handbook, I read pages on how to make my writing better. The first assignment given was page 404-419, which took me 25 mins all together. It took me a while because we had to annotate and take notes. It taught me how to synthesize ideas from our research for our upcoming paper for world history and how to quote, paraphrase and summarize the data we find on our topic. I made important notes on how to format my quotes and paraphrase that I had not known before.
The second book I read was my Biology: Concepts and Connections textbook. I read an hour total of this book this whole week. Last night, I finished up the last 30 minutes while walking on the tredmill. I had not been able to sit down and read in my room because it was a Saturday, and I usually don't study very much on a Saturday, but since the test is this upcoming Monday, I had to discipline myself to do so. Walking stimulates the brain, so I figured walking a slow pace while reading may help me get the info through my brain. It worked! I read all 23 chapters in my extra rental textbook and I was able to highlight and make note of things that I should pay special attention to. The other 30 minutes of reading comes from when I was taking notes this week. It takes quite a while to read this textbook because there is always so much information on each page.
The rest of my 25 minutes reading comes my free-reading book, which completes my total 150 minutes of reading. I read a bit more of my Marie-Antoinette book called "Becoming Marie-Antoinette: A Novel" by Juliet Gray.
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