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STUDY SKILLS GUIDE

Ecole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel Study Skills Guide

Homework Work Procedure List

You must follow these instructions precisely each time you sit down at your desk to do your homework.

1. Make sure that your desk is tidy. If there are any papers on your desk, put them away in the correct file or files. If you have any useless paper around, throw it into the waste paper bin.
 

2. Make sure that you have a supply of clean writing paper on your desk. A French dictionary and an English/French dictionary should be near at hand.
 

3. Take a pen, pencil, ruler and eraser and place them on the desk. Also take your Cahier de Texte.
 

4. Look in your Cahier de Texte at the work you have to do for the next day:

  • Is there any written work to do? If so read the lesson before you start it.

  • Is there any revising and learning to do?

  • Is there any reading to do?
     

5. If you have time left after you have completed the assigned work for the next day then you should:


Prepare your lessons for the next day by revising the last lesson you were taught in those subjects. (Language lessons usually have new vocabulary that needs to be learnt).

Check that all the work you did today is placed in the correct files. You can read over this work, if you have the time.
If there is still some time left, look to see if you can do any work for later in the week. If so, go back to the instructions shown in (4).

Are there any corrections you should do?
If there is still time available, you should spend it quietly, reading.
 

6. The last thing that you do is to pack your bag for the next day. Check that you have

  • all of the books and files for the lessons. Check this with your timetable.

  • any written homework which needs to be given to the teacher. Check this with your Cahier de Texte.

  • your Cahier de Texte, Carnet de Correspondance, a pencil case with a pen, pencil, ruler and eraser, any special items e.g. your science lab coat for your science lesson, your Carte de Sortie, Carte Orange, lunch card and a small amount of pocket money.

Note to Parents:

The 6th grade (6ème)  students need help preparing their bags for the next day. Please make sure that they go through the above list very carefully. Also, please make sure that this is done in the evening rather than in the morning.

Students should have a minimum of money on them, but they must have their Carte de Sortie, their lunch cards and their Carnets every day.

The  6th grade (6ème) school bags are always much heavier than those of the 7th grade (5ème students). This is because the 7th graders have learnt to include only that which is essential. The 6th grade (6ème)  students tend to bring everything, just in case. Please check that, for example, they only have about four spare sheets of file paper in their files. Some students carry fifty or more sheets of paper in each file.