Unit 10 Unit 10 Assignments:

1. Read pages 221 – 240 in your text “Learning To Learn”,

Critical and complete the exercises.
Thinking Note to Teachers and Students:
Activities
There are 13 assignments in this unit and students should
complete all activities by the end of the course. Instructors may
select the order the activities are competed, determine how often
students work on them, or allow students to schedule the order
of completion. Both instructors and students should make certain
that these directions are clear.

1. Critical Thinking Writing Practice (write an essay)

2. Anagrams (complete)
3. What Would You…? (complete)
4. Water Words (complete)
5. A Timely Puzzle (complete)
6. Word Imposters (complete)
7. Dot-to-Dot (complete)
8. Rhyming Pairs (complete)
9. Elimination (complete)
10. Football Pursuit (complete)
11. Open Ended Statements (complete)
“Reading 12. Palindromes (complete)
13. A Candy Quiz (complete)
furnishes
our mind Turn in your work to your instructor when complete for
grading, correction and/or instruction.
only with
materials of
knowledge;
it is thinking
that makes
what we
read ours.”

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Critical Thinking Writing Practice
Directions: Choose ONE of the situations below and write a three-paragraph essay.

- Education is not just learning facts in school. It comes from

a word meaning “to lead.” Education may lead us to a new
way of thinking, a new kind of behavior, a way of making
decisions, a better memory. Education may be practical.
We are students from the time we are born whether we are
in kindergarten or college, at home, on the job or with
friends.
Directions: Write about two important lessons you have learned outside of
school. Where did you learn them? How did you learn them? How did
learning them help you?

- Boy, that was some talk my father gave me last night. He

told me he’d take away my guitar unless there was
improvement in my grades in school. He said I could be a
good pupil if I tried. My teacher praised some of my work,
but there is one area that needs improvement.
Directions: Tell about the area in which you need improvement. Is it
something you like to work on? What do you not like about it? How is it
different from the area you are best in?

- In the past, thousands of people perished from sicknesses

such as diphtheria. Bacteria caused diphtheria, and the
germ was easily caught. It caused difficult breathing,
weakness, high fever and death. Today, because of a
vaccination, diphtheria has been wiped out in our country.
Directions: What sickness would you want to wipe out? Why? Did you or
anyone you know ever have this sickness? What was it like?

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 - I have been nervous ever since I was accused. How could
they suspect me? I wish the person who did it would
surrender. Don’t get me wrong. This is not a matter for
court, and I won’t end up in prison. I just don’t like to be
wrongly accused.
Directions: Many people have been accused wrongly at least once by a
teacher, a parent or even by a friend. Write about what happened to you.
What were you accused of? How did you feel? Did they find out who really
did it? How?

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Anagrams

Anagrams are word puzzles that require you to rearrange a group of scrambled
letters to form a word. All of the anagrams below are from sports. And each one
describes a position played by an athlete in a sport. For instance, the letters
r e h p t i c can be rearranged to spell the baseball position pitcher. What are
the positions in the anagrams below?

1. phostrost __________________________
2. bluflack __________________________
3. oleagi __________________________
4. dworfar __________________________
5. crethac __________________________
6. creevire __________________________
7. friedleuto __________________________
8. creent __________________________
9. racquetbark __________________________
10. turnep __________________________
11. frankle __________________________
12. recleanbik __________________________
13. adrug __________________________
14. thingwirg __________________________
15. rdrltncfeeeeI __________________________

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What Would You…?
Directions: On your own paper, answer each question.

1. What would you like to do, have, or accomplish in the next

year?
2. What would you like to do better?
3. For what activity do you wish you had more time?
4. What did you always want to do but never got to?
5. What has angered you recently?
6. What has made you tense or anxious recently?
7. What have you complained about recently?
8. With whom would you like to get along better?
9. What changes in yourself would you like to make?
10. What would you like other people around you to do
differently?
11. What takes too long?
12. What is too difficult or too complicated for you?
13. What in your life would you like to organize better?

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Water Words

Everybody likes the water. We can fish in it, swim in it and take boat rides on it.
And everybody can enjoy just looking at it. Below are 20 words about water. But
all of them are scrambled up. Your challenge is to put the letters in the correct
order to spell words about water.

1. ahebc ________________________________
2. irver ________________________________
3. afllwtaer ________________________________
4. tosilaab ________________________________
5. conea ________________________________
6. sllahese ________________________________
7. sinwgmim ________________________________
8. rigebd ________________________________
9. elurtt ________________________________
10. urisbmean ________________________________
11. savwe ________________________________
12. gorf ________________________________
13. arksh ________________________________
14. alselgu ________________________________
15. unasnt ________________________________
16. pebsdoeta ________________________________
17. fcatihs ________________________________
18. lee ________________________________
19. horse ________________________________
20. elwha ________________________________

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A Timely Puzzle

Every answer in the following puzzle has to do with time. Every answer is a two-
word or three-word phrase about time, a hyphenated word that includes time or a
single word that incorporates the word time within itself. If you’ve got the time,
start working right now.

1. a hobby, pleasurable pursuit __________________

2. one working less than 8 hours a day __________________
3. one who records hours at work __________________
4. rest period in a ball game __________________
5. you pass through several if you go
to Europe __________________
6. between 2nd and 3rd quarters of a
football game __________________
7. extra period in a basketball game __________________
8. early name for a watch __________________
9. a schedule of when events will occur __________________
10. factory workers punch them everyday __________________
11. what you live on after a close call __________________
12. from dawn to sunset __________________
13. June, July and August __________________
14. hit the sack __________________
15. DST __________________

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Word Imposters

You know what an imposter is. That’s someone who pretends to be something
or someone he’s not. An imposter is a phony or a fake. There are imposters
among words, too. They may seem to be words, but they really aren’t. You will
find some make-believe words below. Each line contains one word that’s an
imposter. Can you find the phony word in each line? Circle the word in each line
that you think is an imposter.

1. bought buy boughten buying

2. sleep sleeping slept sleeped
3. known knowed knowing knew
4. seened seen seeing saw
5. drowned drown drowning drownded
6. wear worned wearing worn
7. taking oken took taken
8. stealing steal stealed stolen
9. froze freeze freezed freezing
10. bring brought brung bringing
11. blowing blowed blew blow
12. spoked speak spoken speaking
13. gave gived given giving
14. swimming swam swum swimmed
15. hearing heard heared hear
16. eaten et eat eating
17. choosed choose choosing chose
18. caught catching catch catched
19. thrown throwed threw throwing
20. flyed fly flew flown
21. slay slaying slew slayed
22. spinning spun spin spinned
23. sting stinging stang stung
24. swung swang swing swinging
25. write wrotten wrote writing

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Dot-to-Dot

. . .
. . .
. . .
Connect all nine dots by using 4
straight lines (and NOT lifting
your pencil!).

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Rhyming Pairs
Directions: Below are clues to paired words that rhyme.

1. a slippery baby chicken __________________

2. prison letters __________________

3. ten cent clock __________________

4. a heated blizzard __________________

5. an unhappy instrument __________________

6. not shallow slumber __________________

7. a twisted campsite __________________

8. the latest look __________________

9. an angry parent __________________

10. a Valentine arrow __________________

11. a pretty professional outfit __________________

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Elimination
Directions: Look at the letters below. Eliminate five letters to find one familiar
word in the English language.

This exercise shows that thinking in only specific ways blinds us to alternative
ideas,

FHIEVLEILCEOTPTTEERRS

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Football Pursuit
Directions: Can you identify these National Football League teams?

1. Indian leaders _____________________

2. red birds _____________________
3. credit users _____________________
4. male sheep _____________________
5. attackers _____________________
6. gold seekers _____________________
7. wild horses _____________________
8. pirates _____________________
9. sea mammals _____________________
10. birds of prey _____________________
11. grizzlies _____________________
12. jungle kings _____________________
13. loyal countrymen _____________________
14. black birds _____________________
15. F-16’s _____________________
16. very large people _____________________
17. thieves _____________________
18. jungle cats _____________________
19. scarlet epidermis _____________________
20. Texas horsemen _____________________
21. Norse explorers _____________________
22. proposed laws _____________________
23. suitcase fillers _____________________
24. America’s birds _____________________
25. holy ones _____________________
26. mythological giants _____________________
27. ocean predators _____________________
28. striped cats _____________________
29. black cats _____________________

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Open-Ended Statements
Directions: Complete each of the following.

1. Today I feel…
2. I get angry when…
3. I wish my parents knew…
4. I wish my parents would…
5. School is…
6. My idea of a good time…
7. I can’t understand why…
8. I feel bad when…
9. I wish teachers…
2. I wish my mother…
3. I wish my father…
4. Going to college…
5. To me, books…
6. I like to read about…
7. People think I…
8. On weekends, I…
9. I don’t know how…
10. Homework is…
11. I hope I’ll never…
12. I’m afraid…
13. I worry about…
14. I am at my best when…
15. I feel proud when…
16. I like to read when…
17. The future looks…
18. I would like to be…
19. I wish I could…
20. I look forward to…
21. I wish someone would help me…
22. My only regret is…

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Front Page Mother Goose
How easily would you recognize some of the old Mother Goose rhymes if they
were summarized in the style of a newspaper headline? Here are 20 such
headlines, each of which represents a favorite nursery rhyme. See how many
you can identify.

1. Farmer’s Wife Attacked By Rodents

2. King’s Men Fail to Revive Crash Victim
3. Man’s Request for Taste of Pastry Denied
4. Violinists Give Command Performance for King
5. Wedded Pair Have Hearty Appetites
6. Survey Discloses Adequate Wool Supply
7. Girl Frightened by Spider
8. Boy Kisses Girl, Flees
9. Rodent Horrified as Clock Strikes Hour
10. Woman Lacks Food, Dog Starves
11. Pig Thief Punished
12. Unusual Pie Served to Royalty
13. Lost Sheep Able to Find Way Home
14. Cat Terrifies Mouse in Royal Palace
15. Study contrasts Boys and Girls
16. Lamb Follows Owner Everywhere
17. Sheep Stray While Shepherd Sleeps
18. Spider Struggles Up Waterspout

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Palindromes
Palindromes are words that are spelled the same forward and backward. In each
sentence below, supply the palindromes that are defined.

1. _________, _________ and _________ all came to my

(mother) (father) (female sibling)
graduation.
2. The baby bird opened one _________ and made a _________.
(organ of vision) (small sound)

3. As the two Eskimos sailed along in their _________ they

(type of canoe)
related _________ to each other.
(epic narratives)

4. The _________ of Iran have almost been _________.

(rulers) (worshiped as gods)

5. One _________ of a democracy is that it is a _________ duty

(principle) (of a citizen)
to vote.
6. When you _________, be sure to stand on a ladder that is
(put wallpaper on again)
_________.
(even, flat on top)

7. He drank a bottle of _________ as he tied the _________

(soda) (protective cloth)
around the neck of the _________.
(small child)

8. _________ he _________ to the _________ demonstration to

(past tense of do) (make reference) (detection system using radio waves)
be given at _________?
(middle of the day)

9. “_________!” he said. “Now I understand how this _________

(exclamation) (a device that revolves)
works!”

10. If that _______ doesn’t stop barking, I may have to ________

him. (young dog) (put something in his mouth)

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A Candy Quiz
Directions: How many candy bars can you name using the clues given below?

1. A famous swashbuckling trio of old __________________

2. Indian burial grounds __________________
3. Galaxy __________________
4. Red planet __________________
5. Home of the movie start __________________
6. Not laughing out loud __________________
7. Can’t hold on to anything __________________
8. A famous author __________________
9. Famous former baseball player __________________
10. Famous New York City street __________________
11. Twin letters __________________
12. Superman’s other identity __________________
13. A sweet sign of affection __________________
14. Favorite day for working people __________________
15. What bees make __________________
16. Nut happiness __________________
17. Pleasingly plump __________________
18. Two female pronouns __________________
19. A feline __________________
20. Single women look for him __________________
21. Round flotation devices __________________
22. Sun explosion __________________
23. Bite with cracking noise __________________
24. Dry cow __________________
25. Children of the cane __________________

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