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Show Grand County Adult Education Slate For Fall Term Announced This Week Grand County School District officials announced announ-ced last week that adult education classes would begin be-gin the week of September 28, and contiiue through the week of December IS. These classes are offered for all adults who have not completed the necessary neces-sary classes for a college degree. One - half unit of high school completion credit will be offered for each class successfully completed. Fee Charged Students who so desire, may also enroll in any of these classes for general interest or self improvement. improve-ment. A registration fee of $12 will be charged for each class. Students can register for any of the courses by calling the school district office at 253-8G31 during regular hours or by calling Bill Meador at 253-4321 after 6 p.m. Registrations will be accepted through Friday, Fri-day, Sept. 25. Those desiring desir-ing to complete high school education through the adult ad-ult education program are encouraged to check progress pro-gress records with Mr. Meador before enrolling in classes. On Monday evenings this fall those students who desire de-sire a course in basic English En-glish . comprising vocabulary, vocabu-lary, spelling, capitalization,- punctuation, and grammar incidental to oral and written communication communicat-ion should enroll for English En-glish I. Emphasis in this class will be placed on vo-' cabulary development by giving students writing assignments as-signments to reinforce their newly acquired skills. Ron Ferguson will be teaching the class which will be taught from 7 to 10 p.m. in Room 14 of the High School. Typing Classes Another Monday class will be Beginning and Advanced Ad-vanced Typing ( to be taught by Leslie Bingham from 7 to 10 p.m. in Room 3 at the High School. Beginning Be-ginning students will learn the keyboard and basic fundamentals of centering, center-ing, letter styles, and other oth-er production materials. Advanced type students will concentrate on more advanced production methods, meth-ods, including rough draft and manuscripts. Both groups wil be timed so as to increase their speed throughout the term. World Geography World Geography will be offered on Tuesday evenings even-ings by James Walker in Room 5 of the High School from 7 to 10 p.m., and will deal with a study of world land forms, climate and mans ability to adapt to his natural environment. -Reading Program An individualized reading read-ing program designed to help the student improve his comprehension and word attack skills, as well as reading speed will be taught in the class, Individual Indivi-dual Reading Improvement. Improve-ment. Teaching this course will be Duane Wimmer in Room 11 at the High School from 7 to 10p.m. Tuesday evenings. Sewing Class . Advanced Sewing will be taught this semester by Ann Fincher in the Home Economics room at the High School. This sewing class is designed to give sewing instruction on an individual basis in order to help students with their various sewing needs. Basic Math Math, a Wednesday evening eve-ning course, will cover a comprehensive basic math . course in general mathematics. mathe-matics. The course win cover such topics as the decimal system of numeration numer-ation operations with decimal dec-imal fractions ; common fractions; percent; reading read-ing of graphs and charts; ratio and proportion : square root; and related areas. Instructing students in this course will be John Olearain who will hoid his meetings from 7 to 10 p.m. in Room 11 of the high school. Shorthand Beginning Shorthand, Shorthand 1, will cover all the basic concepts of shorthand, short-hand, including theory. Advanced Ad-vanced shorthand will be offered second semester. The two semesters of shorthand will help students stu-dents prepare for gainful employment as well as serve as an excellent refresher re-fresher course for those students who received shorthand instruction several sev-eral years ago and have never been required to use their skills. This Wednesday Wednes-day night class will be taught from 7 to 10 p.m. in Room 4 of the High School by Leslie Bingham. Science A basic course in natural natur-al Science with emphasis on local geology and ecology ecol-ogy will be taught by Ted Tibbetts in Room 8 of the High School from 7 to 10 p.m. Several field trips are scheduled during the semester in order to give student sa better understanding under-standing of the concept? covered in the course. Beginning Algebra Beginning Algebra will be taught on Thursday evenings ev-enings by Gene Leonard in Room 6 of the High School from 7 to 10 p.m. The purpose pur-pose of this course is to give the student an understanding un-derstanding of the basic concepts of elementary algebra al-gebra and help the stud ent acquire the important skills necessary to manipulate manipu-late and solve those problems prob-lems pertaining to Algebra Alge-bra and other math sub' jects. School officials staf ed that this is a very good course for those students planning to continue theii education beyond high school. Auto mechanics will bo taught by Douglas Bradley in the High School shop from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday evenings. This is a pracu-cal pracu-cal course in automobile maintenance, covering such areas as; the cooling system, sys-tem, electrical tune-up; the lighting system, accessory ac-cessory service; fuel tank; pump and line service; engine en-gine trouble shooting and maintenance. Students will be allowed to service their own cars as they apply to the various areas of instruction. in-struction. Driver Education The final adult education educa-tion class to be offered will be Driver Education which will be offered if enough students are available avail-able and in need of this service course. The fee for adult driver education wiil be $45 and this class will include 18 hours of theory and six hours of training behind the wheel. |