AVID Support page

Resources will be posted here to help students in various AVID-related areas.
There is a YouTube channel I've recently discovered that seems to really by in sync with a lot of the skills we are working on in AVID: Thomas Frank

AVID Categories

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Organization

• Links coming soon!
  
• Links coming soon!
  
• School Organization video overview

Time Management

• How to Manage Your Time Better - Wellcast
• How to study and do homework in a time crunch
• How to Manage Time, Reduce Stress and Increase Happiness - The Penguin Prof
• How to balance video games and studying
  

Note taking

• BASICS: How to take lecture notes
  
• VIDEO: How to take Cornell Notes
  
• Frank Thomas - 5 Note Systems Compared
• Effective Listening & Note taking (CSUN)
• Note taking strategies compared
• Advice for students: Taking notes that work
• Effective listening & notetaking (Northshore EDU)

Study Tips

• BASICS: How to Study
• Study Less, Study Smart
• Advanced Study Tips
• This is amazingly good!!! -->  Long Beach City College Study Skills Videos
• Links coming soon!

Goal Setting & Motivation

• SMART Goals video
• Links coming soon!
• Links coming soon!

Study Music Playlists

• Future Bass - Upbeat, little or no vocals, changes pace periodically throughout the mix
• Links coming soon!
• Links coming soon!

Help for Other Academic Subjects

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Biology

• PDF of Mr. Garnet's Biology notes from college
• Khan Academy - Biology
• Kreb's Cycle ... music video?!?!
• Mitosis - CrashCourse by VlogBrothers
• Mitosis vs Meiosis - SparkNotes

English

• Greek Gods - Family tree
  
• If you need more help, request it!
  

Japanese

• PRACTICE GAMES & SELF QUIZZES!!!
• Basic Grammar (Wikibooks)
• Particles Cheatsheet
• Japanese Grammar Guide (PDF version)
• Hiragana charts
• Writing & pronouncing hiragana
• What do the dakuten (the little ﾞ mark) and handakuten (the small circle ﾟ) do?
• Help memorizing the hiragana
• Practice writing hiragana
• Modern changes to kana usage
• Adjectives: -i vs. -na, what's the difference?
• Using -na adjectives
  
• Using -i adjectives
  
• Overview of adjectives with charts an romaji
  
• Past tense, affirmative and negative (1),(2),(3)
• Questions in Japanese
  
• Making statements into questions with ka
• Question marker in polite form
• Verb groupings - transitive, intransitive
• Verb groups video

• Group 1 / Group 2 / Group 3 verbs
• Rules for changing Japanese verbs from dictionary form to te-form (for Groups 1/2/3
• Te form) [Polite form]
• Other uses of te-form [Continuative]
•  Chart of verbs converted to te form
• More examples of te-form, plus rules
• VIDEO: Te-form
•  Table of masu form to te form
• Kanji writing practice worksheets
• Japanese social circles
• Giving and receiving
• More on giving and receiving
•  Agemasu vs. Kuremasu in giving & receiving
  
• Causative & passive
  
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Latin

• Grammatica - Latin grammar overview
• Latin Grammar categories
• Conjugation endings flashcards
• The Perfect Tense
• The Latin Vulgate Bible with side-by-side English

Mathematics

• YouTube channel "Math Fortress" with tutorials from Algebra I to Multi-variable Calculus III

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