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Study Skills/SAT Prep/Brain Health/Leadership
Middle and High School students.Taught by: April Thome
Class Meets: Tuesdays, 9-10am or Thursday, 8:30-9:30
Study Skills (First Quarter) covers:
- Learning styles and organization
- Improving the memory
- Learning to listen
- Note taking
- Topic sentences, finding the main idea, reading textbooks
- Essay writing, avoiding plagiarism, research writing
- SAT tests for high school, test taking in general for middle school
- Dealing with test anxiety
- Vocabulary building (Greek & Latin roots, vocab building software
- Test-writers' strategy, test taking strategy
- studying for testing
- Knowing the brain systems that run your life
- What hurts and helps the brain
- Brain boosting skills
- Killing automatic negative thoughts (ANTs)
- Physical and mental exercise for the brain
- Nutrition for neurons
- Loving your brain for life
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
- Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris. This book challenges teenagers to resist conforming to the LOW expectations placed on them.
Also (for high school students only): The official SAT Study Guide
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