The BSR is a reference sheet that helps document your nightly study habits.  You will explore different types of study techniques that you can add to your repertoire for use in future classes.  All the daily assignments will be completed in the BSR notebook unless otherwise noted.  Try to use a variety of strategies.  All record keeping is done on the reverse side of this sheet.

Choices:

1.         Write and answer three important questions that can be answered using the assigned today’s notes/handouts. 

2.         Say your notes/handouts/previously written questions and answers aloud for five minutes, then have someone ask you three questions from them.  You may find it helpful to walk around or do some other sorts of physical activity as you say the notes out loud. Record your results in your BSR notebook. Reflect how you did in your pink sheet notebook.

3.         Draw a picture/cartoon depicting important information from your notes.  Describe your cartoon to someone.

4.         Create a Power Point presentation with three questions/answers about important information from your notes.  Print out a copy (small version) of the Power Point question/answer and staple it into your BSR notebook.

5.         Create an acrostic poem with an important vocabulary word to show understanding of the word.

6.         Write three questions on sticky notes with answers on the back.  Stick them in three different places in your house.  Walk around and quiz yourself.  Record how you did in your BSR sheet notebook. 

7.         Create a song/rap that incorporates important concepts and/or vocabulary words.  The song/rap must show understanding of the concept and/or vocabulary words.   Jot the lyrics in your BSR notebook.

8.         Create flash cards, review them, and then quiz yourself. Record your results in your BSR notebook.

9.         Use the PEG WORD strategy to remember lists. Each number should be associated with a rhyming word.  Then picture the rhyming word as part of the information to remember.  For example to remember “The 4 major problems faced by Mesopotamians as they tried to survive in their environment.”  

1-(bun)            food shortages in the hills (picture a bun on the table with many people around it-suggesting not      enough food)

2-(blue)                        an uncontrolled water supply on the plains (picture blue water everywhere)

3- (boundary)    difficulties building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries (picture boundary between two states or towns being a river)

4-(war)             attacks by neighboring communities (picture attacks that happen during war)

 

10.       Create your own study technique.  Explain what you did in your BSR notebook.

 

11.       Complete teacher assigned review activity.