Generates, sends and receives electronic communications. This unit reviews basic techniques for improving success at school. Activities include examining school and home study habits, using organizational materials and goal setting. Strategies are reinforced across all content areas and continued to be applied throughout the school year. The focus of this unit is on the value of education in every person's life.
Students read stories and novels about school and learning.
They are introduced to people such as Jaime Escalante, a teacher in East Los Angeles, and Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's mentor. As a final project, students send letters to adults they respect to ask about the role of education in t heir lives. These are just a few of the questions students attempt to answer in this unit while learning strategies for reading nonfiction selections. They combine information found in science on earthquakes and volcanoes with how such events have been presented in literature and the popular media. The guidance counselors also discuss with students how to deal with disasters in their own lives.