Category Archives: Tool Box

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 […]

PRINCIPLES – from a handout put together by Becky Edwards “It is worth great effort to organize the truth we gather to simple statements of principle.”  —Richard G. Scott, Ensign, 1993 “The most important [thing] you can do…is to immerse yourselves in the scriptures. Search them diligently… Master the principles.”  —Ezra T. Benson, Ensign, Nov. […]

An acrostic consists of a word that is written vertically.  A word, short phrase, or sentence is then written horizontally next to each vertical letter.  The word, phrase, or sentence written horizontally should begin with the letter it is written next to and must describe the vertical word. EXAMPLE:

How to do a Presentation in Class  from this website.PREPARING YOUR PRESENTATION Step 1:  Write note cards on index cards. – Write main ideas on your index cards. Don’t write details, or be stuck with the fate of looking down, staring at your note cards while reading. Put in some fun facts interactive questions, and […]

Research and take notes on a person you admire. This could include someone from your family history, an inventor, musician, religious leader, author, government leader or someone else you admire and want to learn more about. Find information from a library book or other reputable source.  (Note: Wikipedia is not allowed. Copying and pasting is […]

What it’s NOT An interpretive essay is NOT a book report. It does NOT summarize the story or just list facts or details. As you write, you assume that the reader is already familiar with the story and does not need a re-hash. What it IS  “What I like in a good writer is not […]

A character chart helps us understand the characters we read about in books. It helps us understand why they do what they do, and say what they say. It also helps us know why we feel as we do toward the characters we read about. There are two parts to a character chart: external character […]

Here are the steps to doing a word study followed by a sample word study on PEACEMAKER: 1 – Select a word to focus on. 2 – Look it up in the Webster 1828 dictionary. It can be found online, here. Select the definition for your focus (sometimes there is more than one definition) 3 […]

Research the author and take a few notes on important aspects of their lives, including: when and where they lived, how they were raised, what their education was like, what belief system they professed and taught, what their awards and accomplishments were and what others said about them. This doesn’t need to be time-consuming. It […]