Review Day

Greetings!
Although I'm out of the building today, you'll use the entire period to continue your personal review for the upcoming ACT.
You have a few options for how to do this:

1. You may take another test (or portion of one) from the packet I gave you yesterday.  You may choose to do so with a small group of people, then review the answers together.
2. You may want to review grammar rules for the English section.  Go to the "Class Resources" tab at the top of the page, and then scroll down to the two different grammar reviews.  If you go to the Bedford St. Martin's site, just click "cancel" when asked to log in.

I hope you find this to be helpful.
For those of you taking the test tomorrow, good luck!  Remember a few final important pieces of advice:

1. Check your supplies the night before - pencils, batteries in calculator, ID
2. Get to sleep early and then wake up early and have a good breakfast.
3. If possible, do something physical for 30 minutes before the test - research shows this gets your mind working!

Computer Lab Day - Grammar Review

The goal of today (and the other days we'll be in the computer lab) is to have personal time to review the grammar rules YOU need to review.

Why is YOU in all caps, you may ask?

Because instead of going over all of the rules of grammar as a class, you will take advantage of the individualized feedback you received on your Mastery Manager report and just study the rules YOU need to study.

Look back at your report and look for patterns - did you miss a lot of questions dealing with commas?  Semicolons?  Sentence Structure?

Once you have identified these you'll go to the Bedford St. Martin's website - the link is on the main blog under "class resources."  You don't need to log in - just click "cancel."

Click on the "grammar exercises" tab on the left, then scroll down to the "basic grammar" title.  Once you click on this, it will open up a list of specific quizzes based on different elements of grammar.

Spend the period taking the quizzes and noting the explanations of the rules.  You do not need to report or record your scores - this is entirely for you.  Take as many quizzes as you can in the class period.

At the end of the period, please send me a short e-mail naming which quizzes you took today, and what areas you still want to work on as we move forward.

Enjoy!

Greetings!

Welcome to Study Strategies!  On this page you will find links to many resources we'll use throughout the semester, all with the goal of helping you feel more confident going into the test and raise your scores.