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Study Strategies Page

The best way to study for a test or exam is to do so actively. Just reading over material or mentally checking of the items of a study guide is passive method of studying. Preparing for assessments in this way often prevents students from understanding the relationships between ideas and concepts and from being able to evaluate them in an analytical way.

Consider the following techniques for preparing for a test or quiz:

__**HERE ARE SOME IDEAS**__: 1. Make flash cards - include who, what,where, when, why important, causes/effects. Then "draw" three and talk about their relationship to each other. 2. Explain the concepts, terms and ideas on your study guide to your Mom, Dad, dog, teddy bear, invisible friend, etc. 3. Quiz a friend or ask a friend to quiz you. 4. Make up and take a test for the unit. 5. Tell a story about each concept, idea, etc. by explaining it from beginning to end 6. Write out answers to all of the Unit's essential questions. 7.Print a blank map from the website and use it to quiz yourself 8. Create an acrostic for each major term where you use the letter of each word to begin a sentence about the term 9. Create a frayer chart for each major term. Create a four square model where you draw a picture, write your own definition, give examples of the term and give non-examples of the term. 10. Make a list of the positive and negative effects of each term, idea, concepts 11. Write analytical sentences about the terms and idea using the analytical word bank below 12. Make a list of the political economic and social causes or effects of major events and terms 13. Get a deck of apples to apples cards and play using the terms on your study guide 14. Pick three random terms from the study guide and explain how they are connected to one another. 15. Develop a three point these about the cause, effect, most important concepts about an event, person or nation or empire. 16. 10th grade - evaluate the events, idea, or person using the "ISMS" 17. Visit the chat for your test and ask or answer a question. [|Chats Folder on GoogleDocs]

__**Analytical Word Bank**__
 * Although || therefore || Yet, while the || hence ||
 * As a result || because || Which allowed for || Even though ||
 * Consequently || Due to the fact that || Which resulted in the || In spite of ||
 * Despite || In addition to || Which meant that || The fact that ||
 * Nevertheless || The result was || The motivation behind || moreover ||
 * Since || which explains why || was influenced by because || similarly ||
 * In contrast to || Rather than || Furthermore, since…. || which demonstrates that ||