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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1995)
April 5, 1995 Page 7 Education Smoke Signals How to improve your grades Have you ever wished you had a secret formula for getting good grades without trying too hard? Some students, the "A" students, seem to have the formula but won't tell what it is. Is it the possession of a photographic memory? Is it being the teacher's pet? What is the secret? There is no real secret. The rea son some students get "A's" and "B's" is that somewhere along the way they have developed good study habits and a method of sen sible time management. These two skills, good study Career opportunity in health field American Indian Residential Program and Academic Enrichment Pro gram is accepting applications to attend Health Center enhancement pro grams to be offered this summer in California. These programs are be ing sponsored by the California Rural Indian Health Board and the Health Careers Development Program (HCDP). June 9 to June 16, 1995. American Indian Informational Residential Program, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Deadline to apply is June 2, 1995. July 9 to July 29, 1995. Academic Enrichment Program for American Indians, Humboldt State University, Areata, California. Deadline to ap ply is June 26, 1995. . For registration and information contact Maxine Lewis-Raymond, Di rector or Stephanie Myers, Counselor at the Health Careers Develop ment Program. Call 1-800-274-4288 or (916)929-9761. Meals and lodging provided to participants by HCDP. Teachers program announces scholarships The Portland Teachers Program, a collaborative effort between Port land Community College, Portland State University and Portland Public Schools, helps ethnic minority students prepare for a teaching career by providing scholarships, advising and support. The program is now accepting applications for the 1995-96 school year. Fifteen scholarships will be awarded. Native American, Hispanic, Afri can American and Asian American individuals who demonstrate entry skills for Writing 1 2 1 and Math 65 are eligible to apply. For more information, contact Ruby Pace at PCC's Cascade Campus, 978-5282. Tribal Education Trust Fund Scholarship Applications are available for the 1995-96 academic year. Time is running out to apply! All completed scholarship application packets must be postmarked or submitted to the Education Program by April 30, 1995. No applications will be accepted after this date. For an application packet or if you have questions, contact the Tribal Education Program at 879 5211 or 1-800-422-0232. Indian Health Services (HIS) Scholarship Applications are available at the Tribal Education office. Deadline date to submit your completed application to the Portland Area office is April 14, 1995. habits and sensible time manage ment, are a sort of secret formula for academic success throughout high school and college. Happily, both can be learned. Here are a few tips: . Prepare a regular study place. Study at a regular time, in the same place or room, every day. This place shoufd have your books, pa pers, pens arid so on, always ready. Don't waste time setting up a quiet place every day. Review regularly. Before start ing to go over new material, briefly review old materials. This constant reviewing, even if only for 1 5 min utes before you settle down to di gest brand new facts, will help re inforce learning. Don 7 push your endurance. Stop studying when you are genuinely tired, when words blur or when sen tences and problems no longer make sense. Also, stop studying when you are hungry. A good pro cedure to follow is to study for an hour then stop, stretch and relax a few minutes then go back to work ing on assignments. This helps your mind to concentrate. Write legibly. Make sure your Student honored for English essay about tobacco use Grand Ronde tribal member Tim Nelson, 1 6, was honored in his hometown, of John Day, OR., for an essay he wrote on tobacco use. Tim wrote the essay, entitled "Up in Smoke and Down in Spit at Grant Union", as an English class assignment. He attends Grant Union High School in John Day. Tim is in volved in various school activi ties like the National Honor So ciety, baseball, cross country, and OSSOM, an student orga nization which advocates drug and alcohol awareness and ab stinence. Tim is the daughter of David and Judy Nelson, and the grand son of Newt Storm and Hattie Riggs Storm. I lis great-grandfather was Andy Riggs. Wilmadene Butler is his great aunt. An active member of his com munity, Tim participates in 4 H and works as a camp counse lor in the summer. His essay has been published in the school newspaper and the local newspaper, the Blue Mountain Eagle. The essay speaks of the dan gers of tobacco use, not just smoking, but chewing snuff, too. He feels that his fellow classmates as well as some of the faculty members of Grant and maintain them daily classroom notes are relatively neat and sensible. Reviewing notes that you can't read wastes time. Spend a few minutes after class go ing over the notes you took. Next to the instructor and your textbook, your notes should be you best source of information. Use your textbook. Use your classroom textbook as a guide. Pay attention to the table of contents, which neatly organizes what you'll be learning: chapter titles, which tell you about what the chapters are about and subheadings within the r a . f. Timothy Nelson Union High School are endan gering their health. A member of the School board personally commended Tim for taking a stand on smoking and chewing, and setting an ex ample for his classmates to fol low. Family Math and Science class schedule Please join us on Saturday, April 22 and May 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Grand Ronde Commu nity Center. It is a lot of fun for the whole family. Youth participants must be accompanied by an adult. Snack is provided. For more in formation contact the Education Department at 879-5211. chapters, which further focus for you the materials to be learned. Also, pay attention to the chapter summaries if your text has them. Keep a calendar. Obtain a large block calendar. Write in test dates, probable quiz dates, important re view dates before tests and personal appointments which make studying or reviewing difficult. Plan a catch up day so you won't fall behind. Again, by keeping careful track of time in this way, you'll discover more time for just plain fun. Students: We need your FFA application Copies of you Federal Fi nancial Aid Application were due to the tribal of fices by Feb. 15. Out of 45 students, only 6 have provided this vital docu ment to us. Please submit this information to us im mediately. To those of you who have, thank you. About half of the Educa tion Program students have provided us with their class schedule for winter term. Now we need spring term schedules. Please submit these at your earliest con venience. These docu ments need to be on file with us in order for you to receive funding or prevent a delay in funding. Advisor will meet with students every week Marty Branch, Advising Special ist from Chcmeketa Community College will be in Grand Ronde at the Education Department on Tues day and Wednesday of each week to meet with people interested in Chemeketa Community College or learning more about the short term training opportunities. Marty can be reached at the Education Depart ment or by calling 879-2288. On Monday, Thursday and Fri day of each week Marty will be at Chemeketa Community College and can be reached at 503-399-2367.
