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Five Tips for Success

Five Tips for Success. Ms. Lausch’s English. Tip 1: Use the website. Calendars are updated weekly. You can find copies of assignments online. If you are absent, check the website.* Do not ask me “What did I miss?” That is your responsibility, even if your absence is excused.

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Five Tips for Success

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  1. Five Tips for Success Ms. Lausch’s English

  2. Tip 1: Use the website. • Calendars are updated weekly. • You can find copies of assignments online. If you are absent, check the website.* Do not ask me “What did I miss?” That is your responsibility, even if your absence is excused. • Print off the assignment and complete it for yourself. * There will be a few exceptions; copies of these assignments will be in a folder up front.

  3. Tip 2: Don’t cheat. • I have a Master’s of Academic Espionage. I will know you cheated. • All assignments that are plagiarized will result in a zero and a phone call to your parents. • “Helping” your friend by allowing them to copy your work will earn you both a zero.

  4. Tip 3: Be neat. • Treat your desk as your personal workspace. • Keep your desk and all communal areas in the classroom neat so that you can be at your most productive.

  5. Tip 4: Be prepared. • Check the calendar to be sure you know what to bring everyday. • There will be no running to your locker after the bell rings, and locker breaks do not excuse tardies. • Your notebook can be organized at your discretion, however, it must be neat and ordered. • There will be surprise book and notebook checks that will count as quiz grades.

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  7. Tip 5: Realize school is your job. • Conduct yourself as you would at any job. • You must always be your most productive and attentive or you will fall behind. • It is not easy to “catch up” and I take fewer grades as the semester progresses so do not allow yourself to fall into the trap of procrastination.

  8. Strategies for Close Reading Source: Greece Central School District, NY

  9. Annotating a Text • In the margins of your book (on post-its), make notes that aid in your understanding of the text. 1. label and interpret literary devices (metaphor, simile, personification, etc.) 2. explain writer’s rhetorical devices (tone, diction, syntax, etc.) 3. label main ideas, supportive details 4. add questions you may have about the text and ways it might connect with events in your life or other works you have read

  10. Annolighting a text • Highlight key words and phrases, then annotate in margins. • Capture only concepts related to your objective. • TARGET, REDUCE, DISTILL • Examine the example given to you in the handout.

  11. Questions only • Teaches you to be aware of the complexity of the reading process. • Insightful questions= insightful interpretations • Though your first questions may be simple, try to increase the complexity of your questions as you go.

  12. Sociograms • Sociograms teach you to carefully observe the relationships between characters. • Great for visual learners.

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