Exam Tip 4

Answer Questions in a strategic order:

1- answer easy questions first

2- answer questions with the highest point value first

Exam Tip 3

Review your answers before deciding you have finished the exam. An exam period is intense and your mind is engaged in severely analytical thinking in a short period of time.

After you have decided you completed the exam and answered the questions, take a moment to review and look over the exam with a more relaxed mind. Yes, maybe you finished filling in all the answers, but have you answered them appropriately, did you think about them in the right way? Probably, but give it one more look before deciding you have finished.

Exam Tip 2

Eat "brain foods" while you study and during exam time (not while taking the exam, but during the common exam week).

The following foods are considered "brain foods":

Wild Salmon
Green Tea
Blueberries
Black coffee made from coffee beans (no cream or sugar)


Generally -- eat a good breakfast that makes you feel full and happy. Being comfortable during an exam could affect what your brain is thinking about.

Exams, Exams, Exams

Who knew I would be back in the classroom with you before March?!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed the visit. I will be in one more day tomorrow and then I am sure I will not be back until March.

Since you are in the middle of exams, I am giving you another blog break (but just from the class blog). I will post some studying tips as you go and also ways to RELAX -- because I know you all struggle with this.

Exam Tip 1: Read the directions carefully! Sometimes the people who make the test do not always act or think like the ones taking it, so be sure you try to think of the directions and what the test maker means by them. The better you understand the directions, the easier it will be to respond to the questions.

Science Fiction

The Giver is part of the Science Fiction genre. A friend of mine has said that true science fiction is when the setting is the main character and not the story line.

So, based on that assumption, which of the following movies is science fiction and which is not: The Matrix and Star Wars -- why?

As you read The Giver, try to think about whether the characters are the focus or the setting and whether YOU think it is science fiction or not.

Book Cover

This is the most commonly used book cover for the novel, but here are two more I found:





I want you to tell me what the pictures show you about the novel and what you might think it would be about based on the images. DO NOT look up the summary of the novel and do not answer with a summary of the novel. Also, don't tell me which one you like the best. Just describe what is in the images and how that would make someone think about what would be in the novel. Predict: What MIGHT it be about?

The Giver

What would the world be like if someone else controlled your choices?