. Go to the library. If the book for which you are in search is
not to be found, try another.

10. Learn to use an index. If the topic for which you are looking
does not appear in the index, try looking for the same thing
under another name; or under some related topic.

11. Having found the material in one book, use more than one if
your time permits. When you feel that you have secured the
material which will make a complete answer to the question,
_write the answer on one of your cards for keeping notes._

12. Remember that the teacher will ask constantly _what_ was done,
_when_ was it done, and, most important of all, _why_ it was
done. Make a list of the questions which you think most likely
to be asked on the lesson and ascertain whether you can answer
them without the use of your notes or text.

13. If possible practice your answers aloud. It will make you the
more ready when called on in class.

14. Keep a list of things which are not clear to you and about
which you wish to ask questions.

15. Before completing your preparation, read over these instructions
and be sure that you have complied with them.

It may be claimed that no high school student can be expected to follow
such instructions and that to secure such a daily preparation is
impossible; in answer to which it must be admitted that merely a
perfunctory talk on methods of preparation will accomplish little. If
the instruction just suggested is to bear fruit, the teacher must take
pains to see that it is followed. Carefully to prepare his lesson
according to a definite plan must become a _habit_ with the student.
Facility, accuracy, and thoroughness are impossible otherwise. Haphazard
methods are wasteful of time and unproductive of results. The teacher
can afford to emphasize method during the first few weeks of the course.
The time thus spent in assisting the pupil to develop definite habits of
study will pay rich dividends for the remainder of the student's life.
Daily inquiry as to the method of study pursued, frequent examination of
the student's notes, questions on the important dates selected, the
books used for preparation, new words discovered, and so on, will keep
the importance of the plan before the class and do much to foster the
habit of systematic preparation.

_The question of note-taking_

On the