Semester Exams

Dear Students,

Preparing for a test based on today’s curriculum is not anything like preparing for a test when your parents were your age.  Today, it is more like preparing for an athletic event.  The skills you are learning and practicing in class every single day are habits of mind – critical reading and thinking, making inferences, and literary analysis. 

To prepare as an athlete, you must attend practice faithfully, participate fully, listen to your coaches, and keep your head in the game.  Preparing for a reading or writing test is no different.  If you have attended every practice and fully participated in your training, you will be prepared for your exams.  If you have missed too much practice, have not participated fully, or have not been focused on instruction, a review sheet will do you just about as much good as reading a guide on dribbling the night before a big soccer game. 

If you would like extra practice before the semester exams, try using the question stems I have provided to create your own questions based on the poems we have been studying. 

Have a great week, and a very Merry Christmas,

Ms. Poulter