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7th
Grade Social Studies Homework Assignments
You have been given a four-page exam review sheet with this homework sheet. You must complete it by Wednesday, January 24th, but the sooner you do it, the sooner you will have it to study. You do not have to answer the questions on loose-leaf paper, but it might help you to remember the information - writing information has been proven to help students memorize it. You may turn in the study sheet itself for credit on Wednesday, January 24th, so that you can work on it and study it until then. Below are some studying and test taking tips.
Above all, think positively and get going. Once you are into a task, you will probably find that it is more interesting than you thought it would be and not as difficult as you feared. You will feel increasingly relieved as you work toward its accomplishment and will come to look forward to the feeling of satisfaction you will experience when you have completed the task.
Forming an acronym is a good strategy to use to remember information in any order that can be remembered. An acronym is a word that is formed from the first letter of each fact to be remembered. It can be a real word or a nonsense word you are able to pronounce.
Here is how to form an acronym.
Write the facts you need to remember.
Underline the first letter of each fact. If there is more
than one word in a fact, underline the first letter of only the first word in
the fact.
Arrange the underlined letters to form an acronym that is a real
word or a nonsense word you can pronounce.
“HOMES” is an example of an acronym that is a real word you can use to remember the names of the five Great Lakes: Michigan, Erie, Superior, Ontario, Huron: In HOMES, H is the first letter of Huron and helps you remember that name; O is the first letter of Ontario, and so on.
“Telk” is an acronym that can be used to remember the following animals: tiger, lion, elephant, kangaroo. “Telk” is not a real word, but you can easily pronounce it. You could also have used “kelt” as an acronym. Notice that in this example, you cannot form a real word using the first letter of each fact to be remembered.
Here are some guidelines that will help you correctly answer multiple-choice items.
Knowing how multiple-choice items are constructed and using these guidelines will help you improve your score on a multiple-choice test.