Quiz-taking strategies and exercise

Quiz-taking strategies
Here is a summary of the recommendations the two sections made for writing effective quiz answers:

1. Remember that the instructions ask you to use 2 - 3 sentences to do two things: identify something, and say why it is important.

2. Use complete sentences to help explain relations, structure, or causation.

3. Be specific, and include only important and relevant information.

4. Use lists or "bullet-points" only when you list data or information of relatively equal importance, and without significant relations between the data points.

Quiz-taking exercise
Working in groups, discuss the following student responses from the quizzes. Rank the answers (most effective to least effective). Generalizing from these specific examples, make two or three recommendations for ways to write an effective answer on this sort of quiz. When we reconvene, the group's spokesperson should present the group's ranking, reasoning behind the ranking, and recommendations.

Quiz instructions:
Briefly (2 - 3 sentences) define and state the significance of the following terms from the readings and viewings for this week's class:

Thomas Paine

Answer #1
- his most significant work Common Sence - he
wrote it in the language of citizens so it was easy to read
- main idea is that America has finally find her
way to be, exists on her own
- it is essential to govern America by the
colonists in order to ensure peace and suverenty and liberty

Answer #2
English & American; Author of the Common
Sence (letter against the king George III)

Answer #3
- Writer
- Common Sense

conquistador

Answer #1
Spanish explorer(s) soldier(s).
↓
during the 15th - 19th century

Answer #2
Desoto, Pizzaro
Man who try to find some valuable items (gold, advanced civilization, silver) in explored land violence against native inhabitants
guns and germs

Answer #3
"Conquistador" is the name applied to the Spanish conquerors of the New Work - especially Mexico and South America, notable ones being Cortez and Pissaro.

Bering Strait

Answer #1
During the ice age place covered on ice where hunters-gatherers went to "new world". It melted → isolation → native Americans (Alaska)

Answer #2
Bering Strait is a strait that connects East Eurasia and West North America. It was from here that the first human settlers started to explore Americas from Asia thousands of years ago.