LICENSED EDUCATORS: Topical Compatibility: Increased parent and community involvement, early intervention to drop-out prevention, increase understanding of ELA assessments, improve motivation and engagement, character education, emotional intelligence, leadership. Please develop portfolios, recorded sessions, art for word images etc. Create portfolios to reflect assignments prepared through the ELA study guide as well as your performance outcomes. Portfolios should exhibit: instructional artifacts; personal reflective practices; acknowledgement of program goals; and personal awareness of core competence of resources.

W. Calvin Anderson, MEd. and SEP provides in-service educational enhancement, drop-out and truancy prevention; parent involvement and school articulation by reinforcing academic and youth development readiness programming.

SEP endorses READ AMERICAhttp://www.readamerica.net/

Dear Concerned Americans:

This program is intended to motivate and to support Children from 5-10 years old (K- 4th grades)

in learning critical thinking and grade-level performance standards for school promotion. People of

all ages can help because all children who trust their peers, older

siblings and friends need to read out loud and think out aloud with poetry, schoolwork, newspapers,

magazines, religious studies and everything they view for fun. After all,

this is one of the few ways that we get to know them as independent thinkers and formal learners to

get ahead in our complex global society.

This SEP home and school study unit helps young learners to engage the work of a young poet

named, TyVion Harris and think. When you follow the study guide for the lesson young learner will

then “learn how-to respond to an author and his literature” j

This kind of English Language Arts practice activity will serve to increase critical thinking skills as

well as viewing, listening, response to poetry, and familiarity with grade level expectations at school

in English for everyone involved.

The added-value of this SEP educational DVD is successful when you use it over and over again

and make certain that loving and caring older siblings, family members and concerned friends also

help and even learn to present and “teach” younger learner this program. “Each one, teach one…”

was once the primary mode of education in the U.S. schools wherein all ages studied in the same

small quarters. We invite any and all of you who are reading this to teach this lesson after you

carefully review each section and study it for program goals and your own compatible ideas just like

in school. Sincerely, W. Calvin Anderson, MEd

Let’s Review Sections of the DVD:• Parent Involvement• Author Studies• Responding to Poetry• 3rd Grade Learning Standards• Reading Aloud and Sharing Ideas• Quiz Questions for Practicing Testing

SEP GoalsThe Student Empowerment Program in this application of theHumanities Review System is devoted to meeting the educational anddevelopmental of children 5 to 10 years old to flourish in criticalthinking and reading, viewing, listen and speaking.

The educational DVD is a supplement to a lesson. Students will: 1) listen, view and read for enjoyment; 2) foster an appreciation for

reading for pleasure; 3) increase in developing a basic or advanced reading vocabulary; 4) read aloud and think out loud and state the order of TyVion’s ideas

and the information; and5) read the State English Language Arts standards and “predict” that

the process of question and answer is the same as in their 2nd to 4th

grade English class in school.

MotivationPoet TyVion Harris

is an African American male who is 8 years old.African American males in many major cities andeducational communities suffer from poor selfesteem, poor grades, illiteracy and high drop outrates.

Early efforts by all ages who can read to increase educational appreciation of young learners

could prevent a lack of engagement and studentachievement in later years.

Can we learn about life watching, listening to and reading poetry?

READ TYVION’S POEM OUT LOUD ANDTALK ABOUT IT NOW

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW, QUIZ?End of Poet TyVion’s Sections

What is the main idea of the poem?

a) Self Awareness

b) Changing his name

c) Bragging about being a smart kid.

Correct Answer

Self-AwarenessYes. This poem by TyVion Harris aka "YoungTveezy" is about self-awareness and how hedoes life. He believes in his future. He believes indoing for the youth of the USA and the world. Hebelieves in doing for his family and for preparing afinancial future. He says, "I am tveezy I am there ifyou need me".

Wrong Answer

Changing his name.

No.

This answer is not correct the poem is not about

why he changed his name even though

Tyvion Harris is also known as "Young Tveezy".

Wrong Answer

Bragging about being a smart kid.

No.

The main idea of the poem, "I do it for the

future" is to share self-awareness and a personal

sense of responsibility and accountability.

THESE QUESTIONS ALSO!ANSWER

a. Does TyVion Harris capture a reader’s interest?b. Does TyVion Harris develop his own “point of view”? c. Does TyVion Harris demonstrate an understanding of how school

helps his swag ?c. Does TyVion say, “he makes connections in his poetry and that

everything that he writes about is real?”d. Does TyVion Harris make his poem, I Do It For The Future connect

with his own life?e. Does TyVion Harris Make his poetry connect to what he knows

about the world?f. Does TyVion Harris Make his poetry make sense with a ending,

beginning, middle, and end? e. Does TyVion Harris tell you a lot about his ideas through writing and

listening to him?

Author Studies: Poet TyVion Harris

LOOK UP ALL OF THE WORDS!GET YOUR DICTIONARY

VOCABULARY & DEFINITIONS

Future

Schoolwork

Good

Geography

Dress

Swagger

Action Verbs

Nouns

Adjectives

Focus

Character

Rap

Family

Language Arts

Spoken Word

Poetic License

Rhyme

Verse

Youth

Math

Business

Ohio

Poet

Thinker

Negative

Positive

Author

Idea

Teamwork

Love

CRCT ParentInvolvement

Independent

THE STATE OF GEORGIA!

KNOW ALL OF YOUR 3RD GRADE ELA – READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR

COMPREHENSION ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student

a. Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure. b. Makes predictions from text content. c. Generates questions before, during, and after reading. d. Distinguishes fact from opinion. e. Recognizes plot, setting, and character within text, and compares and

contrasts these elements between texts.. f. Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events

and supports them with evidence from the text. g. Summarizes text content. h. Interprets information from illustrations, diagrams, charts, graphs, and

graphic organizers. i. Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences. j. Identifies and infers main idea and supporting details.

COMPREHENSION ELA3R3 – cont’d

k. Self-monitors comprehension to clarify meaning. l. Identifies and infers cause-and-effect relationships and draws

conclusions. m. Recalls explicit facts and infers implicit facts. n. Identifies the basic elements of a variety of genres (fiction, non-

fiction, drama, and poetry). o. Uses titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to locate

information quickly and accurately and to preview text. p. Recognizes the author’s purpose. q. Formulates and defends an opinion about a text. r. Applies dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary skills to determine word

meanings.

State of Georgia English Language Arts Quality Core Curriculum (QCC)

GO ONLINE TO THIS ADDRESS:

http://gadoe.georgiastandards.org/english.aspx

State of Georgia English Language ArtsQuality Core Curriculum (QCC)

Reading and Literature,

Writing,

Conventions, and

Speaking

Listening, Viewing

Reading Across the Curriculum

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STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …

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SEP READINESS PROGRAM

TyVion is Ready-to-Learn

TO JOIN OUR SEP STUDENT ASSOCIATION PROGRAM ALSO!

STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …

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SEP TRACKING PROGRAM

Our SEP “More Luv” Interactive Parent Involvement program

• Work with your child to improve student achievement

• Track your child’s weekly progress for the school year

• Look at the school calendar and know the important test schedules and ways to help

• Monitor progress and reduce the stress and “high-pressure” for your young learner by being a “team” to solve problems!

TO JOIN OUR ONLINE STUDENT PROGRAM ALSO!

STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …ANSWER

Email us at studentempowermentprogram@gmail.com

SEP ONLINE LEARNING COURSE

Go online to www.greptechnologies/moodle

RESEARCH & REFERENCES

The Student Empowerment Program c 1992 was founded by W.

Calvin Anderson, MEd. (SEP). SEP has served to improve student

achievement in colleges, universities, K-12, non-profit, faith

based organizations and charter schools and across five states

including New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts and

Connecticut.

For more information please contact Calvin

Anderson at (770)912-8569 or wcalvinanderson@yahoo.com.

Calvin has a BA in Philosophy & Political Science, and MS in

Administration & Supervision and is a candidate for an MS in

Instructional Design For Online Learning (June 2011).