Ninth Grade Experience

Study Strategies for Algebra I:

• Keep an organized notebook (dates, titles, complete notes)
• Review notes (Recommended study time: 15-20 minutes)
• Review Quizlet flashcards (Recommended study time: 15 minutes)
• Complete practice problems, redo practice problems

AP Human Geography

Study Tips for AP Human Geography:

• Study/Review using: AP Daily Videos, Mr. Sinn AP Human Geography Videos, quizlets/kahoots, practice
  questions from the textbooks from Dr. Zigler’s classroom (available for check-out) (Recommended study time: minimum 5 hours/week)
• You MUST complete the weekly reading and reading guides to be successful in this course (Recommended study time: 1-2 hours/week)
• Note-taking during class (Recommended study time: 2-3 hours/week)
  • Cornell Note Taking System
• The week before a test, students should create a 5-day study plan. Cramming the night before a test will not result in a passing test grade (Recommended study time: additional 2-3 hours/week outside of class)
  • The Five Day Study Plan
• Create your own, written flashcards for each unit’s vocab. This course is vocab-heavy! Writing things down
  encodes the information in your brain better. You can also draw the concept of the term rather than just writing
  out the definition. (Recommended study time: 2-3 hours/week)

Biology

Study Tips for Biology:

• Study Quizlet vocabulary (Recommended study time: 10-15 minutes)
• Create and review flashcards (Recommended study time: 10-15 minutes)
• Rewrite notes, take quality notes (dates, titles, complete notes)
• Retell the process you are studying to someone else

Chemistry

Study Tips for Chemistry

• Ask questions! When you talk about it, you learn about it
• Complete assignments, complete/redo practice problems (Recommended study time: Daily) 
• Review notes the same day (Recommended study time: 5 minutes/day until the test)
• Use Quizlet and Quizzizz to get more practice with vocabulary and problems
• Re-watch videos used in class (edPUZZLE, YouTube, Khan Academy, etc.)
• Check Google Classroom and eCLASS for helpful resources

Geometry

Study Tips for Geometry

• Keep class notes organized and dated
• Review class notes (Recommended study time: 5 minutes/day)
• Complete unfinished practice problems/rework problems (Recommended study time: Daily)
• Review study guide and sheet problems before exams (Recommended study time: 20-30 minutes)

Language Arts

Study Tips for Language Arts

• One of the best ways to become a better writer is to read a multitude of texts (news articles, videos, informational
  Instagram slides, novels, poems, etc.) (Recommended study time: 20 minutes or pages per day, every day)
• Set reading goals-Read for 10 minutes, at the end of the 10 minutes, record how many pages you read. This
  should be the number of pages you read every single day
• Additional Writing Resources:
  • What Do Good Readers Do?
  • Notice and Note: Informational Reading
  • Writing Tips
  • Quote Integration (MLA)

Medical Ethics/Current Issues

Study Tips for Medical Ethics/Current Issues

• Go over Quizlet and Blooket Vocabulary terms
• Read the entire chapter in the textbook (at least once before test or quiz)

World History

Study Tips for World History

• When reading a text, use SQ3R (Scan, Question, Read, Recite) (Recommended study time: Consistently, whenever reading a text is required and the following day.)
• Take notes (highlight) - review notes the next day
• Vocabulary flash cards- have a partner quiz them aloud. If a student can explain it out loud in their own words to
  someone else without referencing notes they understand concept- include explaining cause and effect.
  Understanding the common themes and trends in world history is helpful to apply to test taking.
• Place flashcards that the student gets correct in one pile and those missed in another; repeat missed until all are in “correct” pile