May and June 2014
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The last Monthly Student Activity Report is
due on June 13, 2014.
Inside this issue:
Necessary Reminders 1
Helpful Resources
Helpful Resources
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How to Be Successful 2
in Class
ACT Challenge
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Famous TRiO Participants
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Word of Encouragement
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Birthdays
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Get your SAT Test Scores at:
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For additional Resources go to:
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Just like an elephant never
forgets, ...please read the
necessary reminders!
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11 Ways to be successful in class
Be in school every day and be on time. When you miss school, you miss a lot (class presentations,
discussions, notes, assignments, tests, etc.)
Learn how to adapt to different teachers. Part of your education is to learn how to adapt to different sets of personalities, teaching styles, and rules. One teacher may not grade for class participation, another one might. If you know all the rules each teacher has, it’ll help you become more successful.
Chances are, if
you follow the
advice in this
article, you’ll
get better grades
and enjoy
school more.
Participate in class. When you participate in class, it makes the class more interesting and helps
keep your mind focused.
Be prepared for every class. Not only is having all the right materials for each class (textbooks,
pens, etc.) but also finishing your homework. When you’ve done your homework, you get more out
of the class, the material your learning makes more sense, and it’ll help you when it’s time to take
tests.
Be aware of your body language. Teachers are in the front of the classroom, they are able to see
everything (even if they don’t let you know they do). They can tell who is paying attention and who
isn’t.
Sit toward the front of class. It’s easier to pay attention and stay involved with you sit in the front.
If you know you have a problem focusing, talk to your teacher to see if you can move to the front of
the class. I knew of a professor who would tell the students in his class he knew who’d be getting
what grades in his class based on where they sat. He was able to state his hypothesis (he taught a
statistics class) and had a decade of information to back up his theory. He challenged the students
to prove him wrong by telling them to sit in the same areas in the classroom, but to earn the best
possible grade they could. Over six years later-his original theory was still true: where you sit really does matter.
Always do your homework. A lot of students view homework as something they should do, rather
than view it as something they must do. Homework is usually a large portion of your grade, if you
miss an assignment or two-your grade drops.
Be a great group member. Knowing how to work well in a group setting is a very useful skill.
Whenever you’re in a group project, try to: do your share of the work, be open to new ideas, and,
support the other members of the group.
Involve your parents/guardians. If they ask you how your day was, tell them something you did
in school. If you’re able to be specific about your day, it means your remembered and retained the
information. It’ll make studying and taking the tests a lot easier...plus you might teach your parents
something!
Take responsibility for your grades. If you receive a bad grade on an assignment or test, don’t
make excuses. Try to figure out why you got a bad grade and figure out how to improve it. If you
get a good grade on a test or homework assignment, be proud of the hard work you did to get that
grade.
How To Get Good Grades, 2013 Woodburn Press
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ACT Challenge: Are You Prepared?
Which of the following lists gives 2 of the 3 interior angle measurements of a triangle for which
the 3rd angle measurement would be equal to 1 of the 2 given measurements?
1)
A) 20°, 40°
B) 30°, 60°
C) 40°, 100°
D) 45°, 120°
E) 50°, 60°
2) When graphed in the standard (x,y) coordinate plane, which of the following equations
does NOT represent a line?
A) x = 4
B) 3y = 6
C) x -y = 1
D) y = ¾x -2
E) x2 + y = 5
3) At a school picnic, 1 junior and 1 senior will be selected to lead the activities. If there are 125
juniors and 100 seniors at the picnic, how many different 2-person combinations of 1 junior and 1
senior are possible?
Looking for the
answers? See
page 4!
A) 25
B) 100
C) 125
D) 225
E) 12,500
4) If 5 times a number n is subtracted from 15, the result is negative. Which of the following gives the possible
value(s) for n?
A) 0 only
B) 3 only
C) 10 only
D) All n > 3
E) All n > 3
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Famous TRiO Participants!
Did you know there are famous graduates of the TRiO
program? In each online
edition, you can read a brief
summary of someone wellknown.
Bertice Berry grew up in Wilmington,
Delaware as an Upward Bound participant, then
graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville
University (Florida) and earned her Ph.D. from
Kent State University at 26 years of age! She’s well
known for The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race,
Memory and Redemption, she wrote several novels
and is an award-winning lecturer.
Taken from Wikipedia and from www.berticeberry.com n January 9, 2014.
Words of Encouragement
Participants,
As professional tennis player, Billie Jean King once said “Champions keep
playing until they get it right.” You are Upward Bound’s Champions!
For each of you, there have been good times and bad, highs and lows, easy
choices and challenging ones, but the best is yet to come! “Never insult some
one by giving them an easy job” stated Max Dupree. We have given you the
toughest jobs of all: do your finest.
Although the challenges you’ve faced haven’t been easy, know this-anything
worth having is worth striving for. As you get ready to go on (whether it’s an
other year in high school, college, work force, or military) it’s yours to complete. If you work hard for what you want, you will be
successful!
Congratulations to our 2014 Senior graduating class, we’re proud of you and sad
to see you go, but we will continue to cheer you on during your next (and most
exciting) part of your life!
Answers for ACT: Question 1,C; Question 2, E; Question 3, E; Question 4, D.
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