SPEED READING -- HALF CREDIT COURSE



Sample



  1. Week One -- Comprehension and speed diagnostic work


    1. Introducing speed reading and scanning


    2. "Pinch-Penny Philanthropist" -- speed drill exercise, sample


    3. "Detecting an Old Killer" -- pace drill exercise, sample


    4. Work with critical reading for the SAT



  2. Week Two -- Continue developing speed, scanning, and pacing


    1. "The Mystic of Pro Football" -- pace drill #1


    2. "History of a Gifted Group" -- speed drill #1


    3. Homework

      1. "Death of the Sun" -- speed drill #2
      2. "A Real Hard Man to Play With" -- speed drill #3

    4. Vocabulary words


    5. Work with SAT sentence completion



  3. Week Three -- Continue developing speed, scan, pace, and skim techniques


    1. "In (Slight) Praise of Tardiness" -- speed drill #4


    2. "Improving Your Nature Photographs" -- pace drill #2


    3. Work with ACT prose passages, ways to read effectively and to find answers


    4. Homework

      1. "The Management Psychologists" -- speed drill #5
      2. "Death of a Christian Realist" -- speed drill #6

    5. Vocabulary words



  4. Week Four -- Continuing practice in all four areas of speed reading


    1. "The GOP's Strange Appeal to Business" -- speed drill #7


    2. "The Revolution of the Wheel" -- pace drill #3


    3. Flash Drill


    4. Work with ACT humanities passages, including ways to read effectively and to find correct answers


    5. Homework

      1. "Of Imaginary Numbers" -- speed drill #8
      2. "The Early Life of Toulouse-Lautrec" -- speed drill #9

    6. Vocabulary words



  5. Week Five -- Continuing practice in all four areas of speed reading


    1. "The Silent Generation Revisited" -- speed drill #10


    2. "A Doughty Berry From the Bogs" -- pace drill #4


    3. Flash drill


    4. Scanner Drills #'s 1&2


    5. Skimming Drill #1


    6. Work with ACT science passages, including ways to read effectively and to find correct answers


    7. Homework

      1. "The Danes' National Pastime" -- speed drill #11
      2. "Personal Privacy Versus the Print-Out" -- speed drill #12

    8. Vocabulary words


    9. Skimming Drill #2



  6. Week Six -- Continuing practice in all four areas of speed reading


    1. "Horsemen From the Sea" -- speed drill #13


    2. "Lenin: Communism's Charter Myth" -- pace drill #5


    3. Flash drill


    4. Scanner Drills #'s 3&4


    5. Skimming drill #3


    6. Homework

      1. "The Hurricane: A Natural Nightmare" -- speed drill #14
      2. "The Limited Purposes of Foreign Air" -- speed drill #15

    7. Vocabulary words


    8. Skimming drill #4


    9. Work with ACT history passages, including ways to read effectively and to find correct answers



  7. Week Seven -- Continuing practice in all four areas of speed reading


    1. "They Had What the White Man Wanted" -- speed drill #16


    2. "The Threatened Coastline" -- pace drill #6


    3. Flash drill


    4. Scanner drill #5


    5. Skimming drill #5


    6. Homework

      1. "Tea: Ritual and Sustenance" -- speed drill #17
      2. "On the Way to a Four-Day Week" -- speed drill #18

    7. Vocabulary words


    8. Skimming drill #6


    9. Work with SAT analogies and begin AP passages



  8. Week Eight -- Continue speed reading techniques


    1. "The Art of Cro-Magnon Man" -- speed drill #19


    2. "Where Are All the Leaders Now?" -- pace drill #7


    3. Flash drill


    4. Scanner drill #6


    5. Skimming drill #7


    6. Special vocabulary study of prefixes and roots


    7. Homework

      1. "Down with 'Media'!" -- speed drill #20
      2. "Baseball's First Masked Man" -- speed drill #21

    8. Skimming drill # 8


    9. Vocabulary words


    10. Continue work with details of AP reading



  9. Week Nine -- Finish speed reading practices


    1. "The Vanishing Lions" -- speed drill #22


    2. "Unraveling the Secret of Life" -- pace drill #8


    3. Scanner drills #'s 7&8


    4. Skimming drill #9


    5. Vocabulary


    6. Skimming drill #10


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