How to receive an "A" on the next test!

•How to receive an “A” on the next test!

•7 Rules to Follow:

•STUDY!!! You can have confidence that you will remember the answers.

•When your brain freezes up, do a brain dump and start writing everything you can think of about the topic! (I cannot give you ANY points if you do not write SOMETHING!)

•Remember discussions in class and write down some of the comments that were made.

•Look at the question carefully. Often, part of the answer is in the question.

•ALWAYS be SPECIFIC in your answers. Give SPECIFIC examples, especially from the article.

•ANSWER THE ENTIRE QUESTION.

•Review your test BEFORE handing it in.

•Answer the entire question and see if there is an answer in the question.

•Why is Mesopotamia called the Fertile Crescent and the Cradle of Civilization?

–There are TWO parts to this question. You need to answer BOTH.

–Part of the answer is in the question—FERTILE and CIVILIZATION.

•Write down the chronology between the First Humans to the Bronze Age.

–Two parts of the answer are given to you in the question: First Humans and Bronze Age. Write those two phrases down!!!

•Answering short answer questions

•You can do this in sentence format:

–“Socrates had many very important statements in his final speech. I thought the ending was very strong, when he was saying, “I to die, and you to live—which is better god only knows.” I like that because to me it means that, just because he is dead, doesn’t mean it’s better. As a matter of fact it may even be worse because they killed him for a very poor reason. He accepted his fact, but also he accepted that he is not the judge to which is better and which is not. God is…”

•You can also answer short answer questions in bullet points.

•The major points of his final speech are:

–That he will tell the truth

–That he loved the Athenians

–He knows what he was saying was risky

–You shouldn’t focus on dying because it is going to happen

–You shouldn’t fear death

–He also said he wasn’t afraid to tell what’s on his mind

–He would always tell the truth and not lie…

•An essay question should be answered in full sentences, in paragraph form, with SPECIFC EXAMPLES from the text!

•I realized that others think that Americans are weird, too. The hog hair, medicine man and the place where people go to die had almost an entertaining factor to it, even though it was making fun of us. I then thought of what we thought others do which we think is weird: Mexicans wearing hats, tribes in Africa dancing in circles, Brazilians hugging and kissing strangers. After that I felt very ethnocentric for some reason. I was proud to be a victim of that paper.

•Reference the CRITERIA for writing history!

•I think that this paper is a good and bad example of good writing of history. According to Lucian, these are things you need to do in order to write history well: Take risks; be unbiased; Don’t be flattering; Don’t write history like poetry; don’t use fluff; don’t have a hidden agenda; be accurate. In this article, the writer is biased, doesn’t use fluff, isn’t flattering, doesn’t have a hidden agenda and isn’t poetic. Unfortunately, he doesn’t take any risks. The article is a little bit boring and he also made a spelling error. Other than those two things, this paper followed Lucian’s tips very well.

•Reference both the BIBLE and OVID SPECIFICALLY (not necessarily in quotes)

•…Knowledge is a desire of people. We want to know why we were created. Without it, our desires are crushed. In the Bible, it explains how long and what order everything was created in. In the Ovid, not only does it explain what was man for creation but what is after the creation as well. Ending the fear of not gaining or not knowing is something you need to know. Fear is the driving force of the creation stories because fear is scary in itself.

•Writing your Paragraphs

•Write a TOPIC SENTENCE.

•Have at least two other dependent thoughts (or sentences).

•End with a CONCLUDING sentence.

•Try to work on improving conventions.

•TYPE IT!

•Have someone sign it to communicate your thoughts to someone else.

•TITLE (experiment)
NAME and PERIOD

–The coolest thing I saw in the Islamic art section was the griffin. I saw it twice. Once in the video and once in real life. I was surprised with the size of it. It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be. All of the patterns I saw really made me experience a new appreciation for the intricacy and workmanship integrated into Islamic art. Another interesting thing I noticed was how the video said, “the closer you look, the more you see.” And how true that was. I was looking at a bowl from a distance and only noticed the exotic colors it displayed. But when I drew nearer, I noticed all of the patterns used to create this work of art. It only proves it more that you just need to look closer to find all the details.