Academic Success Toolkit
Welcome!
We know how difficult it can be to be successful academically. Balancing all of your classes, practices, and activities can be difficult enough. At this point in your academic life, there were so many skills and tasks that you have learned that your teachers are going to expect you to know. These are tools for academic success. You might find yourself in the situation where your teacher might assign a specific skill that you are unfamiliar with like write in MLA, Close Read, or journal dialectically, and you have no idea where to begin. Well, here is your toolkit. Use the links below to answer your questions or at the very least point you in the right direction. Remember, you have control of your own learning! It's supposed to be challenging. Be the one who reaches success.
We know how difficult it can be to be successful academically. Balancing all of your classes, practices, and activities can be difficult enough. At this point in your academic life, there were so many skills and tasks that you have learned that your teachers are going to expect you to know. These are tools for academic success. You might find yourself in the situation where your teacher might assign a specific skill that you are unfamiliar with like write in MLA, Close Read, or journal dialectically, and you have no idea where to begin. Well, here is your toolkit. Use the links below to answer your questions or at the very least point you in the right direction. Remember, you have control of your own learning! It's supposed to be challenging. Be the one who reaches success.
Academic Life Skills
Taking Notes
- Cornell Notes
- Dialectical Journal (Video for teachers, but students find this video useful!)
- How to take notes in class- Top 5 Methods
Academic Language
- Academic Language Toolkit
- They Say, I Say
- They Say, I Say Templates for Agreeing and Disagreeing (PDF)
- Introducing Quotations (PDF)
- TLQ (Transition, Lead-in, Quote) (PDF)\
- How to Debate (Link)
Writing
Reading
- Close Reading
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor (e-book)
- How to read your textbooks for efficiently
- BHH Reading "When you read think about..." (Picture)
Literature
- Analysis vs. Summary
- What is Plot?
- Movements in American Literature and Art (PPT)
- Literary Terms Dictionary (Literary Devices.Net)
- Analyzing Diction: Word Connotation, Tone and Meaning
- What Makes a Hero? A Hero's Journey (Video)