This guide presents teaching strategies for using the basic texts adopted for American literature study in two different year-long courses. Included are the rationale, course objectives, course outline, suggested units and activities, and individualized projects using media for "American Literature, Chronologically Speaking," and the rationale,…

Developed for 58 courses in the English program at the secondary level, this curriculum guide provides a description, an outline, and lists of the objectives, resources, and activities for courses on such subjects as functional language, basic study skills, basic composition, intermediate composition, creative writing, reading, modern grammar, art…

This curriculum guide suggests ways for teachers to provide students with learning experiences which develop communication skills and facilitate the learning of language concepts. The guide, whose design is process oriented and student centered, can be used as a basis for developing an individual language arts program for every student. Eight…

This curriculum guide for the language arts program is divided into four major sections. Section 1, Decoding, discusses such topics as visual discrimination, identifying colors, sight words, likenesses and differences, accent, compounds, contractions, possessives, abbreviations, syllables, hyphenated words, choral reading, correct phrasing,…

This curriculum guide is designed for use in a course based on the English translation of Book 1 of Vergil's "Aeneid." The life of the author is briefly surveyed along with the Augustine Age of Latin literature. A study of the dactylic hexameter and poetic devices used by Vergil is emphasized. The guide includes a statement of the broad…

As part of a continuing program designed to provide Nevada's school population with information that will facilitate greater awareness and understanding of both past and present Native Nevadan lifestyles and contributions, this generalized curriculum guide might constitute a social studies unit on early Indian culture for upper elementary and/or…

A fundamental assumption of our society has been that citizens can make intelligent decisions on complicated economic issues, but more than half of our high school graduates do not go to college and of those who do many do not study economics. If we accept the idea that economic understanding should be part of the intellectual equipment of high…

This manual was designed to provide instructors in adult basic education with lesson plans which treat the subject of parent education and family life. The lesson plans, factsheets, and worksheets in the manual deal specifically with the subject of child development from 6 to 12 years. The lessons encompass a range of topics including childhood…

Designed for the teacher of intermediate level educable mentally retarded children, inservice training materials on family and home are outlined. Units (citing objectives, activities, material, and experience charts) deal with such topics as parental occupations, responsibilities at home, sex education, home furnishings, health habits, clothing,…

To relate the three major aspects of the home economics program at the secondary level, a curriculum model consisting of education for homemaking and family life, education for employment utilizing home economics knowledge and skills, and pre-professional education was developed by the director of the Department of Vocational and Technical…

The objectives of this experimental 12th grade economics course begin with an understanding that "economic analysis applies a set of basic concepts and their interrelationships to problems (involving) economic scarcity." Fifteen basic concepts are to be learned (e. g., want, markets, money, etc.) as well as the definition and vocabulary…

These booklets contain selected drug education curricula, published by the National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information. The guides include those from: (1) San Francisco, California, grades kindergarten through 12; (2) Flagstaff Public Schools, Arizona, grades kindergarten through 12; (3) Baltimore County Board of Education, Towson, Maryland,…

The third in a series of six volumes on leadership training for noncommissioned Army officers (NCOs), this document outlines the training schedule, course organization, field exercises, and lesson plans, with emphasis on such aspects as the supervision and counseling of enlisted men. (See also documents AC 006 904, AC 006 905, AC 006 907, AC 006…

Resulting from the Vocational Education-Special Education Institute (a teachers' workshop held in Lansing, Michigan, June 15-19, 1970), the curriculum guide contains the purpose, philosophy, and objectives of the Institute. The following five curriculum areas are presented in color-coded sections designed for teachers of home economics and…

GRADES OR AGES: Kindergarten--grade 6. SUBJECT MATTER: Science. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory section deals with objectives, scope, sequences, and units. The main body of the guide deals with activities and lists materials, with illustrations. The guide is offset printed and bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND…