The general design of this book is that of a step-by-step self-instructional program leading toward the writing of poetry. It consists of 156 exercises which lead the student from writing about a picture and poems to kinds of poetry and techniques for writing poetry (alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, rhyme, meter…

Described is a three-level self paced high school chemistry course developed for Queensland, Australia schools. The design involves a modification of the Keller Method. A sample unit test is included. (SL)

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Speed, Acceleration, and Velocity; Force, Mass, and Distance; Types of Motion and Rest; Electricity and Magnetism; Electrical, Magnetic, and Gravitational Fields; The Conservation and Conversion of Matter and Energy; Simple Machines and Work; Gas Laws; Principles of Heat Engines;…

This workbook is a supplement to Harold Van Winkle's "Elements of English Grammar: Rules Explained Simply," a book intended for self-instruction which presents the basic rules of standard English grammar in an easy-to-understand manner. The workbook's six chapters correspond to those in the book and contain exercises on: (1) The…

Intended to help interested people speak and write more correctly through self-instruction, this book presents the basic rules of standard English grammar in an easy-to-understand manner. The book's six chapters are as follows: (1) The Sentence; (2) Parts of Speech; (3) Case; (4) Modifiers; (5) Agreement; and (6) Building Better Sentences. The…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons on: What to Look for in Narrative Writing, Interpreting Figurative Writing, Keeping Track of the Subject in Writing, and Reading Literature for Understanding. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Life Functions and Cells; Cell Structure; Tissues, Organs, Systems; Growth and Nutrition; and Metabolism. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

Tests the effectiveness of three training methods as self-training materials in modifying questioning behavior including wait time of Thai high school chemistry teachers. Concludes that studying pamphlets and qualitative listening to audiotapes improves questioning; pamphlets study also improves wait time. (CS)

A self-instructional language program can offer rewarding and stimulating study to the motivated and gifted student. It provides a challenging approach to language learning and an opportunity to study a language not offered in the curriculum. Lessons are recorded on tape cassettes; lab work and tutorial sessions are used. (CHK)

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Plants and Photosynthesis; The Human Digestive System; Functions of the Blood; Human Circulation and Respiration; Reproduction of a Single Cell; Reproduction by Male and Female Cells; The Human Reproductive System; Genetics and Heredity; The Nervous…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Difficult Words to Spell; Sentences and Their Parts; Adjectives and Adverbs; Comparative Forms; Spelling ie and ei Words; Using Negatives Correctly; Using Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases; Spelling - ance and ence Words; Subject and Object Pronouns;…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Spelling Endings Added to e; Capitalization; Question Marks and Exclamation Points; Quotation Marks; Spelling Double Letter Demons; Colons and Dashes; Punctuating Series with Commas and Semicolons; More Confusing Word Pairs; Separating Sentence Parts with…

A review of the research on study techniques indicates that reading and generating questions from the material is an effective technique for ensuring better comprehension. Familiarity with a model of studying that divides studying into prereading, reading, and postreading provides one explanation for this effectiveness. In prereading, students…

During the winter semester of 1970 a seminar was conducted for doctoral students in social studies education as a practicum in curriculum development to meet some of the special needs of the small high school, specifically the production of social science independent study packages. The packages produced were one-half Carnegie unit equivalent…