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Dickson T

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Joined Feb 2021 · He/Him

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SAT Vocabulary Intensive Training

    3rd session
Are you looking to strengthen your vocabulary skills as you prepare for the SAT?

In this series, you'll explore word roots, prefixes, and suffixes, mastering techniques to decipher complex words. You'll dive into academic and SAT-specific vocabulary, learn contextual clues, and practice incorporating new words into your writing and speech.

Each weekly one-hour session combines theory with hands-on activities, quizzes, and exercises to reinforce your learning. You'll maintain a vocabulary journal, track your progress, and receive personalized feedback.

By the end of this course, you'll have the confidence and skills to tackle the SAT's vocabulary-focused questions with ease, excel in academic settings, and communicate more effectively across various contexts.


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Past Sessions

43 Series

32 Sessions

SAT® Prep · session

SAT Writing Punctuation Rules

SAT Writing Punctuation Rules: What you need to know about commas, dashes, semicolons, colons, and question marks. Aimed towards students below the 700 range.

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Enrichment · session

SAT vs. ACT

In this session, we will discuss how the tests differ in format and content. 1. ACT Science vs. SAT Reading (Science Passages). 2. ACT Math vs. SAT Math 3. ACT Reading vs. SAT Writing 4. ACT English vs. SAT Reading Notes: * We will *not* cover how colleges interpret test scores. * In my opinion, I do believe the ACT is a more difficult test due to its breadth. However, some students may naturally do better on the ACT than the SAT. This session should help you become more informed about which one to take.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Math

A continuation of my past session (https://schoolhouse.world/session/47089) covering SAT Practice Test #3's math section. We will work on the problems that we didn't get to last time.

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Community · session

[For November SAT R&W Tutors] Dickson's Onboarding Session

Join this Onboarding Session required for Reading and Writing Tutors participating in the November SAT Bootcamps! You’ll go over useful tutoring skills and have the chance to meet other bootcamp tutors like you. Note: You do not need to attend multiple tutor onboarding sessions, as they will cover the same material.

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SAT Math

A good way of avoiding making mistakes in the SAT Math section is to do less in your head and to write out more steps as you do the problems. In this session, we will focus on improving the quality of written-out work, including tips like rewriting the question, defining variables clearly, writing out steps more explicitly, and checking your work. This session will be based on Practice Test #3. Even if you have done it before, you can see how the ideal written-out work may differ from your own.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Focus on "Expression of Ideas" questions. These questions tend to be more subjective. How do we approach them? Suggested pre-reading: The Khan Academy articles on the SAT Writing test: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat/x0a8c2e5f:about-the-sat

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Slow-paced session. We will walk through Practice Test #9 Passages 1-2 question-by-question. Think of this session like a train that you can hop on/off at any time. Welcome aboard!

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Last-minute SAT Reading prep! 1. Review of my top SAT Reading tips from my SHW experience 2. Timed practice on Practice Test #5 Passage 2 (Catharine Beecher, Angelina E. Grimké)

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Enrichment · session

Live Help

Hello! Happy to help with any questions you might have.

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Enrichment · session

Live Help

Hello! Happy to help with any questions you might have.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! (No session 6/13) This week, we will focus on tips for logical reasoning, including a few illustrative examples from the LSAT. Then, we will go through a Khan Academy Science passage ("Passwords") together, 13 minutes + debrief as before. We will conclude by discussing ways you can practice reasoning on your own.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! In this lesson, we will simulate an SAT history passage, John F. Kennedy's inauguration, then zoom out to a guided close reading of his speech. This is Session 1 of my 2021 Summer of Reading series. The goal is to help you improve your general reading comprehension skills for success in the next school year, rather than working only on your SAT test-taking ability. Agenda: 1) 13 minutes to read and answer Qs, 2) debrief of answers, 3) close reading discussion

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! Final practice before your June SAT test. We'll go over a science and social science passage. These passages are easier to read, but the questions can be tricky. They will help train you to examine answers critically before falling into traps.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! This week we will cover two Literature passages from Khan Academy's SAT practice: The Voyage (1921) by Katherine Mansfield and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde. No preparation required.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! (No session 5/9) This week we will practice on a literature passage from The Looking Glass by J.D. Beresford. No preparation required. Agenda: 1. Timed test (15 mins) where you will read the whole passage and answer all the questions. 2. Thoroughly debrief the answers. Students will submit their guesses (and justification for trickier questions). Then, we will explain for every answer choice why it is correct/incorrect.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! This week we will continue focusing on choosing the right answers, unlike past sessions where we focused on paraphrasing. The passage we will cover is a Literature passage from Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen. * No preparation required Agenda: 1. Timed test (13 mins) where you will read the whole passage and answer all the questions. 2. Debrief answers and discuss techniques for choosing answers. 3. Compare the usage of techniques between the UK physical activity passage and the Northanger Abbey passage.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

Regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! This week we will focus on choosing the right answers, unlike past sessions where we focused on paraphrasing. The passage we will cover is from Social Science ("School Playing Environment... UK"). Some tips I'll cover include a) testing relevance and b) comparing strength of evidence. * No preparation required Agenda: 1. Timed test (13 mins) where you will read the whole passage and answer all the questions. 2. Debrief answers and discuss techniques for choosing answers. 3. Generalize techniques to one other passage.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

New regular time -- Sundays at 11am Pacific. Mark your calendars! We will practice paraphrasing on a Khan Academy SAT history practice passage (Federalist 5). As we walk through the passage, I will evaluate your paraphrasing and point out any errors. Then, I will demonstrate how to apply your paraphrasing to the answer choices. This practice is a great way to develop reading skills: evaluating the author's use of evidence, drawing the proper conclusions, learning new vocabulary in context.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

We will practice paraphrasing on a Khan Academy SAT social science practice passage ("The Power of Kawaii"). As we walk through the passage, I will evaluate your paraphrasing and point out any errors. Then, I will demonstrate how to apply your paraphrasing to the answer choices. This practice is a great way to develop reading skills: identifying central claims, evaluating research methodology, and reading between the lines to understand the author's point of view.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

We will practice paraphrasing on a Khan Academy SAT history practice passage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone). As we walk through the passage, I will evaluate your paraphrasing and point out any errors. Then, I will demonstrate how to apply your paraphrasing to the answer choices. This exercise will be similar to the Federalist 1 session I ran previously, but with actual test questions at the end this time.

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Computer Science · session

Computer Science

[Python Part 2] of Intro to Python programming through Google Colab/Jupyter Notebook. Learn about while loops, recursion, dictionaries, and classes. We'll apply what we have learned by plotting JSON data fetched from the web, such as populations by country over time.

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Computer Science · session

Computer Science

Intro to Python programming through Google Colab/Jupyter Notebook. Learn about basic Python syntax (variables, functions), and basic usage of Matplotlib for building charts. Useful for understanding math concepts as well, such as exponents, logs, graphing, trigonometry, etc. Google account required. No setup necessary. Primarily for people with no programming experience. For those who have attended this session already, this is a repeat of Part 1 with no new content.

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SAT® Prep · session

SAT Reading & Writing

History passage practice. Rather than going through practice tests directly, we will read through Federalist 1 together (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10). We'll carefully examine how Hamilton communicates his ideas using skills that the SAT reading test evaluates (main idea, evidence, etc.), and I'll explain techniques for tackling archaic language. Hopefully, this will inspire you to perform your own reading!

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Computer Science · session

Computer Science

Intro to HTML, CSS, (and Javascript if there's time). These languages are foundational for developing websites, including this one. We'll walk through MDN's (Mozilla Developer Network) curriculum together (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web) and perform some exercises in their live editor.

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