Revised Post(week 5)

My reading habits can go either way of reading sections or chapters through the week or reading everything in one day. It always depends on how much homework I have for other classes. To improve my reading habits, I note down on my agenda the times in which I will be doing my reading and also write down the page numbers that I will complete. By doing this, it gives me a set time of finishing my reading assignment without thinking Ill do it later when it can be finished sooner. By organizing my reading time I also avoid procrastinating. My reading habits consists of being in a quiet space so I won't be distracted while reading a text with so much information. I am not the type of person who can concentrate in a loud room so that is why I always try to put myself in a peaceful environment where I know I can get my reading done. I also make sure that I don't have any technology around me because I know how I will be tempted to use my cellphone or laptop, and that of course is extremely distracting when doing homework, especially long readings. By eliminating all these distractions I finish my reading assignments at a much quicker pace. The one thing that oddly keeps me focused is music. To me it is not considered a distraction but instead it helps me not get irritated by being bored and at the same time I am  able to do homework and listen to music and getting it all done at the same time. 

I use sticky notes to help me summarize each page that I read. It is easier using sticky notes to look back at the text and not wonder what the entire page is about and that way I do not have to re-read as much as I would have if I had not annotated.Annotating to me doesn’t mean to write down the entire page again but instead to make sense of it and how it can relate to the questions that will be given in class. It is better to rephrase pages by summarizing them in a way that I am able to understand them later on. I do this by using common words that come easily to mind. I can recall my teacher saying when you are using more advanced words be sure you are using them correctly, and if you are not then do not use them at all. She said this because it looks really bad when it seems you are trying to hard and at the end I would not even be able to understand what I wrote.  When I annotate i make sure I define all of the key concepts because those will be the most relevant and important to remember for history class since a lot of them are policies and so forth. Much of the time I highlight the most essential words because those are the ones that have the most significance in relating to prompt questions.