Ways to improve your progress in Social Studies:
*Read the reading assignments (take notes if that is what you need to
do to stay focused)
*Do the homework (work for completion as well as understanding)
*Review the vocabulary (strive to understand vocabulary as opposed to
just memorizing vocabulary)
*Pay attention in class (take notes to stay focused)
*Stay Activity period when completing the study guide to ask questions about
the chapter.
*Stay Activity period to ask questions you have about homework or class work.
*While taking the test, slow down and read carefully.
*Read the documents carefully and pick out key words.
*Read questions carefully and pick out key words.
*Sometimes answers to a question are found in other questions and
charts (Keep your eyes open for answers in the test.
*Use logical deduction (figure out what is definitely incorrect and then
reason out the best answer.)