Junior Seminar – December 10, 2015 Word of the day = garish Question of the day

Review – tips for the reading section 1.Do the sentence completion activities first, then the passage-based reading sections. 2.Be sure to read passages carefully. 3.Do not jump from passage to passage. Read them in order. 4.Read the questions before you read the passage. 5.Mark up the passage as you read: underline important facts, ideas and statistics 6.If you’re a slow reader, skim the passages concentrating on the topic sentences, evidence and conclusions.

7.Summarize longer passages as you read. Maybe even make quick notes in the margin. 8.Always read the italicized paragraph before each passage. 9.Avoid extremes: Always, never, only, absolutely, etc. 10.Read for the main idea and focus on that – don’t get lost in the details 11.For sentence completion questions, put each answer in the blank and see if it fits. 12.Eliminate the answers that are obviously wrong

What can you do on your own? Read, read, read Practice read theory Practice Khan Academy

Today – practice marking up a longer passage As you read, write summaries of each section in the margin, underline important passages, statistics or evidence.

Today – practice short passages the-meaning-of-words.html the-meaning-of-words.html Take quiz

Tomorrow Word of the day Question of the day Scholarship PowerPoint Work on Khan Academy or Read Theory (Goal is to get 3000 Khan point by the end of each week