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American School of Correspondence Blog
Friday, May 09, 2008 Bein' Green Hiho! It's May 9, and Kermit the Frog turns 53 years old today. It was on this date in 1955 that the lovable amphibian that Jim Henson made out of his mother's old green coat and ping pong balls made his debut on a puppet show called Sam and Friends. Years later, Kermit became a fixture on Sesame Street doing Muppet News Flashes, in which he interviewed various nursery rhyme characters, but he would become best known as the star of the Muppet Show, which ran for several years in the 1970s and spawned a series of movies in the 1980s. To this day, Kermit is the most beloved of all the Muppets, and millions of people visit him every year at the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. One of Kermit's best-known songs is Bein' Green, in which he discusses the difficulty of being a green animal. At the American School, green is an important color, too, but we think you'll like bein' green. After you enroll, we will send you a special green first page form for you to use on your very first exam. This form tells us that you are a brand new student, and your instructor will write special welcoming comments on that exam. We will also send a green request for information form that you can use to contact us if you have any important questions. Finally, you'll like that your wallet will have more green in it, since our tuition is the most reasonable and flexible around. Hop on over to the enrollment section of our Web site and download our application. Your friends will be green with envy after you earn the American School's diploma! Wednesday, May 07, 2008 May Chat Sessions Scheduled The American School's Online Student Center will host two chat sessions on Wednesday, May 14. The first session will run from 1-2 p.m. Central time, and the second session will run from 7-8 p.m. Central time. The format will be similar to previous chat sessions. An American School employee will facilitate the chat and will be available to answer general questions about our courses, policies and procedures. The facilitator will not be able to answer questions about student records, exams or billing issues during the chat sessions. In addition, those students present are welcome to share study hints and their American School experiences with all those present. Please make plans to join us next Wednesday. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday, May 07, 2008 Launch Your Education Today is May 7, and on this date in 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off on its first voyage into outer space. To date, Endeavour has flown 21 flights, spent 219 days in space, and traveled over 85 million miles while orbiting the earth. If you are looking for liftoff on your high school education, then you've come to the right place. The American School has been a leader in distance education for over 100 years now, well before anybody tried to go into outer space. And with the launch of our Online Student Center last year, we have entered a new frontier of service. Students, guarantors and school officials now can view students' records any time of day from anywhere in the world, just by entering their code and password. The Online Student Center also contains help sheets, links to homework Web sites and monthly chat sessions, and we made sure that your tuition didn't skyrocket as a result of these new features. In fact, you can get your high school diploma for less than a dollar a day. You won't find a better deal anywhere in the solar system. So take some time today to consider your future and your goals and how you will achieve them. If you determine that earning your high school diploma from the American School will make your dreams a reality, download our application and mail it to us. We will process your application the day it is received. We look forward to having you as one of our students and think you'll find this educational endeavour to be out of this world! Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Happy National Teacher Day Today is the first Tuesday in May, and every year on this day, we celebrate National Teacher Day by honoring American School instructors. We are grateful to have over 200 instructors on staff, and even though they don't see students on a face-to-face basis, quite possibly they have more students than any other high school teacher in the world. Approximately 4,000 students earn the American School diploma every year, and when you add in those students who are on their way to a diploma and those who only take one or two courses with us to recover credits, we have a student body close to 30,000. Despite the huge numbers, our instructors treat every student exactly the same. They write personalized feedback on all exams. This time of year, our instructors are working as hard as they can to help thousands of students graduate. We have no shortage of exams at this time, and all exams are graded carefully by hand in the order in which they are received. They look forward to grading your exams as well. Enroll today and let our instructors help you earn your high school diploma! Monday, May 05, 2008 Happy Cinco De Mayo Hola! It's May 5; in Spanish, Cinco de Mayo. This Mexican holiday celebrates their victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. For many Americans of Mexican ancestry, today is the equivalent of St. Patrick's Day for the Irish, Oktoberfest for the Germans, and Chinese New Year for the Chinese. It is appropriate, therefore, that today's blog discusses the American School's two Spanish language courses. Spanish 1 introduces students to the basic grammatical concepts and structural characteristics of the language. The course emphasizes using Spanish in a cultural context through the use of visuals, scenarios and dialogue formats. Spanish 2 expands on the grammatical principles and vocabulary students learned in Spanish 1. The course emphasizes the correct usage of time and place through a detailed study of verb tenses which includes the use of visuals and dialogue formats. Most four-year colleges require at least two years of a foreign language, so consider taking Spanish 1 and Spanish 2. You will earn the credits and skills you need for college, and you will learn much about Spanish culture as well. |
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