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Academic Decathlon Assignments

Instructors
Mrs. Kathy Slattery
Mrs. Paola Sessarego
Term
2019-2020 School Year
Department
Electives
Description
December 18
 
All students should have their Study Guides finished by Friday. If not, I will still give the Study Guide answers to you but will ask your parents to hang on to those until you finish the written questions. The assessments are the first week in January. 
 
I'll give you a short Christmas logic packet also. You should solve your specialty problems and can work on any of the others. And I recommend reading Treasure Island, the Super Quiz Literature book, if possible. It's a wonderful book to enjoy regardless of whether a student makes the competition team.  
 
November 13
 
Individual Subjects
 
Each assignment is due the next time we meet. The assignments are to read the material and answer the chapter review and vocabulary questions in writing (no need to use complete sentences). For the vocabulary, they should not use an outside dictionary if they can't find the definition in the text or glossary. The coaches have the answer keys which contain the definitions as written by the test writers. It's important for the students to learn the wording the test writers use so they can recognize it on the actual tests. 
 
We will only study the Individual Subjects until Christmas vacation. Please use Thanksgiving vacation to help them with as much of the material as possible, including doing some logic problems.
 
October 23 Students must turn in their Choice Sheets with their Individual Subject Test choices by Friday. Students may indicate their Super Quiz preferences also, but we won't work on SQ until January. 
 
General Information
The Corpus Christi Academic Decathlon team competes annually against more than 100 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Junior High Academic Decathlon. This daylong event takes place each spring.
 
The elective class prepares both the competition team and alternates to compete in the Super Quiz, Logic Test and eight Individual Tests at the Decathlon. The Resource Guide for this year should be released by the end of September or beginning of October. The Resource Guide will list the topics for this year's Decathlon. Once the Resource Guide is available, students will list their topic preferences. Based as much as possible on those preferences, small study groups for each topic will be formed.

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