Category Archives: Tool Box

“This (notecard) system will drastically improve your educational successes. I want to make this as brief and simple as possible, so let’s get straight to the point. Make memorization a major part of your education. Rote memorization is sometimes overused in our modern educational systems, but there is definitely a place for filling your mind […]

Presentations in Vanguard are a great way for the youth to share what they’ve learned with the rest of the students and build confidence speaking before a group.  For the most part, the youth excel at this skill!  Many of our Vanguard Youth have take speech and debate classes and are great at public speaking.  […]

Log into Google with the following credentials… username: vanguardmtnebo@gmail.compassword: vanguard2014 Go to YouTube and click “upload video”.  Depending on your internet connection and length of video, it may take a while.  Please don’t stress your mom out by waiting until Vanguard morning, 5 minutes before you have to leave to upload.  Trust me.  😉

MISSION STATEMENT We will engage in a respectful and inspiring peer environment that will not only help us grow in our faith, but will help us feel free to develop our unique strengths as well as a passion for learning that will allow us to better ourselves, our families, our communities, and, ultimately, the world. […]

While reading any book, ask yourself the following questions and ponder the answers.  Bring your answers to our class discussions. 1 – KNOWLEDGE What happened? We need to be able to explain the basic facts and information to someone else. 2 – MEANING Why did it happen? We need to know why things matter and […]

A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles to illustrate the similarities, differences, and relationships between concepts, ideas, categories, or groups. Similarities between groups are represented in the overlapping portions of the circles, while differences are represented in the non-overlapping portions of the circles. Another example: 1 Each large group is represented by one of the circles. […]

Why would we want to mark in our books? “You know you have to read “between the lines” to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to “write between the lines.” Unless you do, you […]

Classic as defined by Thomas Jefferson: “…everything that is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue.” A Classic: Reasons to Read Classics: Components of Classics: “Bent stories portray evil as good, and good as evil. Such stories are meant to enhance the evil tendencies of the reader, such as pornography […]

These presentations are meant to be a final reflection on all of the things you have accomplished this year, how you have grown and improved, how you have served others, how you have been influenced by and have been able to influence others, what you have learned this year at Vanguard. This is meant to […]