How to use the Basic Info posts

To reiterate what this is all about -
"Basic Info" posts will contain an outline and/or questions to help you find the basic information in each chapter. After reading and taking notes, you should come away with at least this information. Often this should be a review of "Intro Bio" material (the course you took in 9th or 10th grade) or should be on this level. You should NOT limit your reading and note-taking to just this information, but this is what I will expect you to understand mostly on your own, and this is the material that will be on the test in the fall. The tricky details of the chapters will be discussed in class.

Now a little about how I suggest using these posts -
The Basic Info posts for Ch 40-49 will all be in question format.  However, the answers to these questions are not going to be collected.  So you're not doing them for a grade, you're doing them for yourself - to increase the amount of info and understanding you get out of the reading!  If you dash them off in 5 minutes, you won’t get much out of them in the long run.

You might want to read the questions before you read/take notes on the chapter, or you might decide to read the chapter/take notes first, and then go back to make sure that you have included in your notes all the info that the questions ask for.

Writing the answers/info in outline or note form (or including them with the notes you take as you read) is fine - in fact, this might be more useful for studying later than writing out complete sentences.  If you find that some questions are related, you might decide to answer multiple questions together.  You might find that making a table is useful in some cases (for example, in Ch 41, you could make a table for each compartment of the digestive system and for each compartment, include the function, substances that are active there, what the substances do, where these substances are produced, etc.).

Be specific!  An answer like “The liver aids in digestion.” is not really going to help you.  Use good vocab!  Name specific structures (parts), substances and functions.

Please note that the questions are not necessarily in order according to the way information is laid out in the chapter.  Also, you might have to do some thinking (ahh!) - make connections, draw conclusions, etc - each question does not necessarily have an answer that is spelled out directly in a sentence or two somewhere in the chapter, but the information you need to answer the question IS in there.

Lastly, please excuse the order of the posts as they appear on the blog - chapters 40-49 will show up in reverse order.  (This has to do with the way I posted them.)  You should do them in ascending order (start with 2, then 40, 41, etc).

I hope you find these questions helpful.  However, if any of the questions are confusing or you are having difficulty, please email me at lblood@haverhill-ps.org .