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ACT Grammar and Reading Review
Instructor:Dr. Jennifer Clements

Improve your comfort level in taking the English portions of the ACT. The 75 questions assess punctuation, grammar and usage, sentence structure, organization, style and rhetorical skills. Learn how to prepare for and approach the test in order to score higher in this three-day class.

Limited enrollment!

Location: Historic First Street School, 401 West First Street
Date:Saturday, October 3,10,17
Time:1:30-3:30 p.m.
Cost:$69

 

Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People--Learn Chords, not Notes!
Instructor:David Haynes (info)

If you yearn to experience the joy of playing piano, but don’t want years of weekly lessons, this short course is for you. In just one enjoyable evening, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to make piano playing a part of your life, learning chords, not notes. You’ll learn all the chords needed to play any pop song, any style and any key. And you’ll get a healthy dose of insider secrets.

This absolutely beginning class in chord piano techniques, and if you can find middle C and know the meaning of Every Good Boy Does Fine, you already know enough to enroll in this workshop.

If not, send a SASE for a free pamphlet to Music Masters, 90 Molly Lane, Ringgold, GA 30736. Then register with confidence. An additional fee of $25 payable to the instructor the first night of the class covers workbook and 60 minute practice CD.

Location: Historic First Street School, 401 West First Street
Date:Wednesday
November 18, 2008
Time:12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cost:$55 + $25 supply fee

 

Let's Make Christmas Earrings
Instructor:Cassie Ames (info)

Just in time for Christmas! Learn to make earrings for gifts and for yourself. Learn the three skills necessary to make most earrings. You'll leave with a pair of Christmas tree earrings and a pair of snowman earrings made with stunning Swarovski crystals.

Beading is easy and fun and can be done most anywhere with little up-front cost.

All supplies and beads are included in the supply fee.

Location: Historic First Street School, 401 West First Street
Date:Tuesday, December 1
Time:5:30 - 7:30p.m.
Cost:$18 + $12 supply fee, pay instructor at class

 

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 - EXCEL I: Basic
Instructor:Freda Welte

If you work with numbers, you need to know Excel. In Introduction to Excel, learn the skills needed to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets. Along the way, use the Fill Handle and the AutoSum tool. Insert columns and rows. Add comments to cells. Polish the worksheet by formatting numbers, applying attributes (bold, italics), changing fonts, adding borders, and adjusting column width.

Prerequisites: Keyboarding skills, Basic knowledge of Windows,and Use of the mouse

Limited Enrollment!

Location: Historic First Street School, 401 West First Street
Date:Saturday, November 7
Time:1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Cost:$75

 

Windows XP Working with Folders and Files
Instructor:Freda Welte

Do you control your computer or does the computer control you? This will help you master the skills needed to use your computer with enjoyment instead of frustration. The knowledge learned in this class is usable in all software, e-mail programs, and internet surfing. Cut, copy and paste, drag and drop, save your work and photos and find it again. You will learn how to personalize your computer with photos, folders, short cuts to the calculator, games and programs that you use. Learn to use your computer as a personal journal. Learn to stop spyware and pop-up ads.

Limited Enrollment!

Location: Historic First Street School, 401 West First Street
Date:Saturday, November 7
Time:8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Cost:$75

 



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