What you Need to Do RIGHT NOW!!!

• Start doing your work!
• Go to TUTORING (5^th Block)  See Ms. Gibbons in Rm. 9!
• Focus!
• Make your academics a PRIORITY!
• Ask your teacher for a grade printout so you can see what you are missing or Ask the teacher to show you in his gradebook what you are missing
• Ask for Help (if you are embarrassed, ask after class)
• Ask for Makeup Work Now and for Thanksgiving Break
• Ask to retake Quizzes or Tests that you failed
• Do not be a discipline problem! (Stop talking)
• Come to school everyday!
• Get to class on time!
• Be Prepared! (Pencil, Paper, Pen, Notebook, Homework, Classwork, etc.)
• Get off your cell phone! (STOP TEXTING!)
• Stop writing notes to your girlfriend or boyfriend!
• Do all of your classwork!
• Do all of your homework!
• Ask questions if you do not understand!
• Study! {For each Academic Core Class or Foreign Language study at least 20-30 minutes a night} [If you are failing four academic classes, you need to spend 1 hour and 20 minutes to 2 hours a night studying. 3 Classes 1 hr. to 1 hr. 30 minutes. 2 Classes 40 minutes to 1 hr.]
• Take time for and prepare for your tests and quizzes.

Ways to Study

1. Notecards
2. Rewrite your Notes
3. Read over your Notes
4. Make yourself a test (Multiple Choice)
5. Read your textbook
6. Ask your parents/family/friends to quiz you
7. Study at a specific time every night
8. Use mnemonics to learn things (PEMDAS - Please eexcuse my dear aunt sally)
9. Create your own Graphic Organizer
10. Set your own personal Academic Goals

Bottom Line is YOU have to want to do BETTER! I have tried to list as many things that I can think of for you to improve your grades in the next seven weeks. Focus and Make it Happen!