Breakthrough Breakthrough David J. Wright Shawn was walking his rounds when the chime rang from Room 6, the Smoker ward. He was four All the characters and Your name. Close Send. Remember me Forgot password? It will give an understanding of the importance of good communication skills for their personal development and career. Elye Teen Success!
Offers activities for teens ranging from procedures aimed at developing enthusiasm, confidence, and self-esteem to projecting a more positive appearance, reducing frustration, maintaining health, and working with mentors. The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs , The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science—accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type.
The annotated lists at the end of each chapter—ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking—preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.
The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre—what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?
In her best-selling work on home education, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In The Well-Educated Mind, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.
This best-selling study guide includes review questions and practice exams in each of the three test areas: math, science, and reading comprehension. Also includes helpful tips for test preparation and for becoming a more effective learner and test taker. To help the upcoming student, Jonathan Morrow provides this engaging guide packed with advice on all manner of issues, from dating and friends, classes and homework, to avoiding the temptation to just "check out" spiritually while in school.
Morrow gives personal advice and anecdotes, draws examples from Scripture, and offers additional resources for further insights. Includes approximately questions and 3 practice exams in each of the three areas: math, science, and verbal. Collection inlibrary ; printdisabled ; internetarchivebooks ; delawarecountydistrictlibrary ; china ; americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English.
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Internet Archive Books. Delaware County District Library Ohio. Thank you, for helping us keep this platform clean. The editors will have a look at it as soon as possible. Delete template? Cancel Delete. Cancel Overwrite Save. Don't wait!
0コメント