College Read-Study

Featured Link: Tons of links that will take you to areas where you can practice and review all your Reading and other Language skills.

Professor Gair's Classes- Valencia College - Documents posted here will include the course syllabus, possibly some handouts, assignments, helpful worksheets and web links to reinforce your reading skills. Questions about class assignments can be submitted to me by e-mail at rgair@mail.valenciacollege.edu. Please make sure you put a topic in the message and indicate your full name (first and last) and which class you are in so I can identify you. I will do my best to respond to your question in a timely manner. Most of the documents will be posted in either Adobe Acrobat ® or Microsoft Word format.

Syllabi, Tentative Weekly Schedules, Paperback Book Study & Assignment Guides- Click to download in Adobe Reader.
for REA 007 & REA 017)
REA 007 Syllabus & Weekly Schedule-Summer 2013
REA 007 Study & Assignment Guide for "The Story of Blima"
REA 017 Syllabus & Schedule
REA 017 Study & Assignment Guide for "Night"
Purpose-Tone-Value Word Study List for REA 007 & 0017
**** REA 017- STUDY GUIDE PACKET (All Chapters- Great for Exit Exam)****
IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL PORTFOLIO BINDER CONTENTS MUST BE TURNED IN AS PART OF THE FINAL EXAM. KEEP ALL COMPLETED WORK STORED IN THE CORRECT TABBED SECTION. FAILURE TO TURN IN ALL THE CONTENTS WILL RESULT IN F IN THE COURSE.

Handouts
Remember the required handouts packet can be printed from WebCT or purchased in the bookstore here on East Campus. Have it class at all times.
Metacognition Worksheet (You may need one of these a week before every announced test. I will let you know.)

Addendum To Syllabi:
Cell Phones- If a cell phone goes off in class you will receive a zero for that class period as noted in your syllabus AND you will also lose 5 points from your next chapter test! If it rings during a test you will fail the test and may be asked to leave. This also applies to texting in class. Leaving class to answer it will result in 10 points deduction from the next chapter test!

Supplies- You must have two different colored highlighters with you in class at all times!

Reading Skills Practice Sites- Each section below has links that will help you improve your skills in each chapter in our course textbook. It is important that you bookmark this page, as I may assign some of the
links as we do each chapter.

Need some extra points to boost your average? Here's a series of assignments that you can do obtain a score equal to taking an extra unit test. The finished product must be exactly as the directions state and handed in NO LATER THAN the first class of WEEK 10 of the semester. Do all 3 and score 100 points as an additional LAB grade!

Learning Styles Survey- After taking this survey, go to the next link and click on the left box that says "Make Your Learning Style Work for You". Find your learning style and copy the list of methods that will work best for you. (50 points)

Go to Livecareer.Com and take the "Free Career Test" survey (100 questions) to find out which career fields are right for you. When you get to the bar graph page, "Basic Interest Scores", print it out and hand it in. (If you don't want to share personal information when filling out the application, use an 'alias'.) (25 points)

Once you have chosen your career field from the survey above, go to

. Next click "Find Occupations". At the right, use the pull-down menu under "Browse by Job Family" to choose a job description. After looking at a few of these jobs, choose the one you like best. Print it out and hand it in. (25 points)

Thanks to Professor Fennessy's (West Campus) web site for these links and assignment idea!

REA 0017 Classes- Chapter 10: Reading & Evaluating Electronic Sources (Reading Across the Disciplines, 5th Edition)

Before doing the exercises in your textbook it would be a great help to visit the following sites to see what is involved in evaluating web sites. These sites have tutorials and worksheets and tools and criteria you can use to make an effective evaluation of sites. I will most likely be assigning one of the tutorials as a homework assignment.

Reading & Evaluating Electronic Sources- Chapter 10 of Reading Across The Disciplines, 5th Edition...this is the text we are using in REA 017. The following 33 links are all part of the exercises in this chapter. They can also be found as active links if you go into My Readingh Lab and use the E-Book version of the text. In addition, I have placed them all here, in the exact order needed to complete the entire chapter 10. I hope this saves you some typing. Professor Gair

BIAS is all over our society. It is in the news and the popular media, as well as national and international politics and affairs. These videos are meant to teach you about one particularly nasty BIAS, RACIAL BIAS. "All in the Family" was a television show that broke ground as to what could be shown or said on national television in the 1970's. Archie Bunker (the main character) was a man who made the rest of America sit up and take notice. He made us see how foolish we looked in harboring our own racial biases about many ethnic groups. Many people suddenly saw a bit of Archie's character in themselves, their families and their neighbors. They did not like what they saw. Examine his BIASES through his words, facial expressions, body language and the responses of his "liberal" daughter Gloria and her husband Mike, who by the way was known as "The Meathead" and Archie's wife Edith, who he fondly called a "dingbat". Are there other BIASES other than just ethnic or racial here?