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

Test Prep (Second Quarter) covers:

• 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

Brain Health (Third Quarter) covers:

• 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

Leadership (Fourth Quarter) covers:

• 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.

Text: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. $10.87 from Amazon.com
Also (for high school students only): The official SAT Study Guide