Effective study habits are vital to your success in a collegiate environment. Study skills only become habits when they are implemented on a day-to-day basis. This Hyper Lesson will introduce to you effective study habits. You will also learn memory techniques you can implement to help you in your studies. You are in control of your own academic success. The choices that you make can be life-altering at this level, both good and bad. Through your journey here you will take a reflective look at choices that you have made academically at strategize what you could have done differently. In addition, you will uncover your intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for achieving academically. As with all the Hyper Lessons, you will complete all activities by following the hyper-links on the slide and following the slide directions. I look forward to hearing your responses and hope that you enjoy your journey! Lisa Herr

Take Interactive Quiz Print Screen your results and drop them into your interactive notebook. Title the slide- Study Habit Quiz.

Go To Link Above Read the Habits for Effective Study Create a Advertisement for Bryan Collegiate High School “Pathway To Success” class in Word or Publisher. The ad is to promote the “Pathway to Success” class and highlight steps to academic success. The ad will include: At least 5 steps- 4 points Appropriate graphics- 4 points Contact Information: Name of School, Address of School, Website of School, Your name and Class Period- 4 points School Seal/Logo- 4 points Name of Course: Pathway To Success- 4 points Pathway Ad

m.htm Flash Activities for: Acronym Acrostic Rhymes Loci Keyword Image Naming Chaining Look at the examples on the interactive activities of the above memory techniques. Add a slide to your Interactive Notebook for each of the four activities (4 slides total). 1.Create an ACROSTIC for SMART goals- Slide 1 2.Use 5 words from Spanish class or English class and create 5 sentences using the KEYWORD method. – Slide 2 3.Choose a character from “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Use the IMAGE NAMING technique to create a mental image of the character- Slide 3 4.Use the CHAINING method to create a story to remember the R’s of Note-taking. –Slide 4 Memory Activities- 4 Total

Motivating Yourself Add a Slides to your Interactive Notebook to cover the following: 1.If you are Intrinsically motivated, studies have found that you will do three things. What are they? 2.What three things do Intrinsic motivations encompass? 3.From the list on the Interactive activity, identify the benefits you will receive from attending an Early College High School. 4. Identify a subject that you are “curious” about and are interested in learning more about. 5.Write a sentence or two describing why learning about this subject is important to you. 6.Challenge, Curiosity, Control, Fantasy, Cooperation, and Competition can all be motivators to move you towards your goals. Choose one of the factors that moves you towards achieving your goals and write two sentences about how this factor motivates you. Provide an example. Motivation Activities- 5 Total

1.Identify where extrinsic motivation comes from. 2.Provide a personal example of a task that you complete due to extrinsic motivation. 3.Who affects your choices in education? Explain how this person affects your choices. 4.Describe what those parties, or that party, gains from influencing your decisions regarding education. 1.Using the examples on the website as a guide, write 3 statements turning an extrinsic motivation to an intrinsic motivation. “I complete “task”. By completing “task”, I receive “benefit”.

1.Describe a recent penalty you have received in the academic setting. (Example, you were ‘grounded’ from the computer at home, you received a zero, you received a detention.) 2.Define what you did to receive that penalty. 3.Describe a recent reward you received in the academic setting. 4.What did you do to receive that reward. 1.Write a paragraph describing a mistake you have made at Bryan Collegiate High School. 2.Define the consequences received due to the mistake. 3.Describe things you could have done differently.

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