Learn This! : Stuff You Need to Know, and Mistakes You Need to Stop Making, Before You Step Foot into High School

Charles Gulotta

ISBN 10: 0965326357 / ISBN 13: 9780965326353

Published by Mostly Bright Ideas, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learn This! : Stuff You Need to Know, and Mistakes You Need to Stop Making, Before You Step Foot into High School
• Publisher: Mostly Bright Ideas
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965326357
• ISBN 13: 9780965326353
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Book Description A detailed review of many of the things high school teachers expect their incoming students to know. Includes astronomy, world geography, U.S. geography, Canadian geography, world history, U.S. history, U.S. presidents, Canadian history, math, science, writing & grammar, literature, art & music history, major religions, languages, famous people, and more. Equally important, the book provides a strategy for learning large and complex chunks of information. The strategy can be applied to any of the subjects in this or any other book.

About the Author

I've been helping my two teenage daughters with homework and studying for years. I've seen what they know and what they don't know. I've tutored hundreds of high school students and have often been surprised by the large gaps in their knowledge base. For whatever reasons, many students just aren't learning the things their high school teachers will expect them to know: What's the capital of Brazil? How do you find the area of a triangle? What is a light year? When was the U.S. Civil War fought, and why? Who was Mark Twain? Golda Meir? William Henry Harrison? Which is larger, the galaxy or the solar system? What is wind chill factor? How do you multiply fractions? When do you use between and among? What's the world's largest lake? Island? City? Country? Mountain? These are just a few of the thousands of facts to be found in Learn This! No, it isn't everything a student needs to know. And it certainly contains some information no teacher would expect students to know. But this book is a great place to start for any seventh-, eighth-, or ninth-grader who wants to be ready for high school.