Enhancing your performance on the ACT is instrumental in determining your choice of college. This six-hour course will prepare you for specific types of questions in Reading, English, Writing, Math, and Science and give you pointers on time management, anxiety relief, scoring and general standardized test-taking strategies.  Please be sure to bring an ACT approved calculator to the training.  

Small breaks will be given. Students are encouraged to bring snacks and a light lunch.

About your instructor:

My name is Jennifer Veloria-Dunn. I have been in education for 14 years and I have been teaching ACT Prep since 2013. My goal is to ease test anxiety and to have students practice ACT specific testing strategies to effectively take the test. After taking this class, many students have reported increasing their composite score by up to 7 points!

Rivers forge the language of a place and its people. In this comparative literature seminar, we will explore selected works of Dante, Mark Twain, and James Joyce; tracing their literary connection to rivers, and groundbreaking use of informal, regional dialects. Supplemented with Mary Ann Messick’s History of Baxter County.

*Class dates are as follows: February 4th,11th,18th,25th, March 4th & 18th

Instructor BIO:

Matt Powell is a writer and musician. His writing has been featured in Variety, No Depression, Angels Flight—literary west, Community Works Journal, The Happy Music Center, StyleBlueprint, Scanner Zine, Temporary Detective and Emmys.com. He served for five years as Contributing Music Editor for Humor in America, a blog affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He performs music regularly throughout the area, and you can often catch him at an open mic reading from a classic book.  Matt was born and raised in Southern California, but his roots in Baxter County go back to the 1860s. He moved to Mountain Home in 2021 to be around family roots, nature, and good neighbors.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. Whether you're keeping a budget, organizing a training log, or creating an invoice, Excel makes it easy to work with different types of data.

This class will introduce basic concepts of the program and allow for self-practice. Students will take a look at the Excel interface, ribbon, workbook cell basics, modify rows, columns and cells. They will learn to format cells and work with multiple workbooks. Students will also get a glimpse of formulas, functions, charts and absolute cell references.

Microsoft Word is a word processing application that allows you to create and edit a variety of documents, including letters, resumes, and more. This class will introduce basic concepts of the program and allow for self-practice. Students will take a look at the Word interface, including the ribbon and quick access toolbar. Students will also learn how create, open, edit and save documents using text features and some object formatting.

In this immersive workshop we will deep-dive into the craft of songwriting. With lessons on song structure, music theory, lyric writing and more, I will provide tools to guide you in writing an original song, with the option to perform at our class concert. All skill levels and styles welcome. 

*Class dates are as follows: March 5th, 12th, 19th, April 2nd, 9th, 16th.

(Due to Spring Break class will not be held on Wednesday March 26th).

Instructor BIO:

Matt Powell is a writer and musician. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in songwriting, and studied guitar performance. His writing has been featured in several publications, including Variety, No Depression, and Emmys.com. He served for five years as Contributing Music Editor for Humor in America, a blog affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He performs music regularly throughout the area, and has released four EPs of original music with  bands in Los Angeles, including a song placed in the CW show Supernatural. Matt was born and raised in Southern California, but his roots in Baxter County go back to the 1860s. He moved to Mountain Home in 2021 to be around family roots, nature, and good neighbors.

Enhancing your performance on the ACT is instrumental in determining your choice of college. This six-hour course will prepare you for specific types of questions in Reading, English, Writing, Math, and Science and give you pointers on time management, anxiety relief, scoring and general standardized test-taking strategies.  Please be sure to bring an ACT approved calculator to the training.  

Small breaks will be given. Students are encouraged to bring snacks and a light lunch.

About your instructor:

My name is Jennifer Veloria-Dunn. I have been in education for 14 years and I have been teaching ACT Prep since 2013. My goal is to ease test anxiety and to have students practice ACT specific testing strategies to effectively take the test. After taking this class, many students have reported increasing their composite score by up to 7 points!

• Mortgage Loan Basics
• Who can get a mortgage loan?
• Affordability and you
• How much will a lender lend you?
• Shopping for the right lender and product
• Strategies for finding the right lender and loan product
• Working with a lender
• Steps the lender takes to approve your loanYour rights as a loan customer

Are you interested in learning Sign Language? This course is designed for students who wish to expand their knowledge in conversing with people who are deaf. Includes receptive and expressive skill building, fingerspelling, Deaf Culture, conversational signs and time in ASL. Classifiers, locations, temporal aspect, videos with Deaf Signers, and guest speakers.