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Ms. Cannon’s Study Tips – VOCABDON’T JUST READ!!! Use other parts of your brain/body! Say the words out loud. Put them in a story. Listen to the definitions. Come up with motions to match the words. Break down the words graphically (like a web)!Use study groups!! Anyone from a AP Human Geography class. Quiz each other! Make it a contest! You have 30 words to learn. The first one to get all 30 right has to buy the other a candy bar.Put the words in context!! It is hard to remember a bunch of isolated words. Think of HOW they are used. Look for these words in readings or articles! Try to use the words in your writing or conversations!Use visuals!! Draw a small picture to go along with the words and definitions. The pictures don’t matter as long as they help YOU remember the definition. Do a Google image search for the words! Images stick in your head in other ways!Flash Cards!! Use index cards or a website like quizlet! If you start doing this for your vocab words now, then by the time we get to the AP test you will be ready to go! Take you flash cards to the gym or quiz yourself as you walk to class! Have someone else quiz you!Replace words in songs you know!! Music is a great learning tool because it contains set of words that we already have memorized. When your vocab words offer up a synonym, try to think of a song you know that features that word, and just swap in your GRE word. If you aren’t that into songs, you can do the same thing with famous quotes.Put a face or motion with each word!! Some people learn kinetically, and most of us benefit from learning in more than one way. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking are the four classic ways to learn language, but adding in motion and other sensory learning methods can really help. Associating a word with a grimace, a disgusted face, a sigh, a huge smile, a growl, a sly look, or a jump into the air can help cement its meaning in a way that memorization can’t. Try it!Color-code or sticker your flashcards or notes!! Sometimes you come across a word on the GRE that you know you knew. Once upon a time, you read and defined the word, but it’s not cemented in your memory. In those cases, even a glimmer of the word’s meaning can make a difference. Think about putting all the bad words in red and all the good words in green. Or putting smiley face stickers on all the words that define something positive or pleasant. At any convenience store, you can buy a pack of round label stickers in red, green, yellow, and blue why not assign those colors to mean bad, good, happy, and sad?Match a stack of words to a collection of items!! For me, forcing words into categories helps me to understand them. It makes me tell a story, which causes me to think about the word in a new way. Sorting words is one great way to do this. But, for a different take, try taking a collection of items and assigning each word to one of the items. This might mean you dump out a box of crayons and then force yourself to assign each word to one of those items for whatever reason you can come up with! The collection doesn’t have to be physical items it could be your list of Facebook friends or the contacts in your phone. Searching your mind for qualities that each word’s definition shares in common with an item or person in the collection helps form connections that stay with you.Post your top-ten hit list where you’ll see it!! Despite all the unique, multifaceted ways you find to study, there will probably be some words that elude them. Pick ten of the worst offenders, and give them each a one-word definition. Then, put those words and their definitions on a Post-it note, and put that note somewhere you can see it. Sticking it on the bathroom mirror and reviewing it while you brush your teeth is a great option, or posting it by your computer. Once you feel you’ve mastered those words, make another hit list. Short, manageable chunks and lots of repetition are key. ................
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