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SLANT and Organization
Communication and Advocacy
Note Taking
Study Skills and Critical Thinking
Miscellaneous
100
This is where you write down all your assignments
What is a planner?
100
An inappropriate time to ask a teacher for help.
What is in the hallway between classes?
100
A part from organizing daily life, note taking also helps with this?
What is recording useful information or identifying key points
100
Acronyms
What are words formed by the first letters of each word in a group of words?
100
You are all Upward Bound ________
What is scholars?
200
This is what the S and L in SLANT stand for
What is Sit Up and Lean Forward?
200
What BCC stands for.
What is Blind Carbon Copy?
200
Writing more notes than you can use or copying chunks are ____ strategies.
What is unhelpful
200
Rote learning.
What is repetition of material over and over?
200
What you should do if you feel your teaching isn't preparing you enough for the test.
What is look at online resources (Youtube videos, Khan Academy, etc) or talk to peers?
300
This is what the A, N, and T in SLANT stand for
What is Activate your listening, Nod, and Track the speaker?
300
Ground rules for asking a teacher for help (at least 2).
What is knowing why you're asking for help, considering when you're asking for help, being prepared, avoiding the last minute, and showing appreciation instead of entitlement? (Teacher's discretion)
300
The number of note taking methods that we have talked about?
What is 5
300
Flash cards, rewriting information over and over, and condensing information and repeating all the important topics.
What are strategies for rote learning?
300
Reasons to meet with a teacher (at least 2).
What is you don't understand the homework, you don't understand what you learned in class, you want to know why you got a bad grade on a test, you missed a day of school, you are going to miss school?
400
The organizational system that we discussed in class.
What is keeping one or two binders for each of your classes, keeping lined paper in it, and having a three whole punch?
400
The purpose of a BCC in an email.
What is attaching a recipient to the email without the primary recipient seeing.
400
After writing notes in the main space, use the left hand space to label each idea with key word or "cue". This method is what?
What is the Cornell Method?
400
Ways you can use critical thinking in high school (at least 2).
What is using discussion as a tool for understanding, valuing your own opinions, answering questions completely, thoroughly, and with thought, and knowing how to put ideas in your own words (teacher's discretion)?
400
While taking notes it is important to ask yourself these questions.
Why am I taking notes on this? And What kinds of points are useful to note?
500
Ways to go above and beyond (at least 2).
What is writing more than the absolute minimum when answering questions, overlearning when studying for a test, always doing the optional extra credit, sitting in the front of the room, and raising your hand before you're called on? (Teacher's discretion)
500
How to start and end an email to a teacher.
What is: (Dear) Teacher's Name, BODY OF EMAIL Thanks/Sincerely/Best, Your Name
500
Two examples of ways to be an effective listener, other than SLANT.
What are look for main idea, patterns in speakers lesson, listening to what the speaker is talking about, taking notes, determining what is important to you, if you can't hear move, responsibility of interest lies in you.
500
Mnemonic Devices, Acronyms, Associations, and Gimmicks
What is strategies for chunking (or recoding)?
500
The topics for sophomore seminar classes (at least 3).
What is Seize the Day/How to be a Scholar, SLANT, Organization, Communication and Advocacy (meeting with and emailing teachers), College Day Prep, Note Taking, Study Skills, Critical Thinking, Homework?