SAT Sundays

06/14/2024

SAT Classes Starting Soon!!

Learn everything you need to know to ace the new digital SAT! This 6-week series includes two hours of SAT English and two hours of SAT math. English classes will include:

SAT vocabulary
Grammar
In-depth review of SAT math
Skills drills
Analysis of each question type
Tips for avoiding trick wording in answer choices

Classes begin the week of July 8 and end the week of August 12; times to be determined based on enrollment.

Cost:

English: $420
Math: $420
English and Math: $800

Contact: Send a short email that includes your name and preferred lesson times (morning or evening) to [email protected]. Classes are filling up, so act now!!

06/14/2024

CORRECTED POST

When I first posted this blog, I omitted the link to the rest of the article. I also chose a fairly graphic image, which I have replaced with one that I hope pushes fewer buttons.

Thanks for reading and please keep commenting!

Teaching in the -Too Era

As anyone who’s read Romeo and Juliet can imagine, being an English teacher sometimes includes talking about s*x with large groups of other people’s children. It’s often awkward and accompanied by much giggling, but there’s one aspect of human s*xuality--rape--that is often presented as simultaneously catastrophic and unmentionable, especially in older books....https://www.elizabethbreau.net/post/teaching-in-the-metoo-era

06/11/2024

Teaching in the -Too Era

As anyone who’s read Romeo and Juliet can imagine, being an English teacher sometimes includes talking about s*x with large groups of other people’s children. It’s often awkward and accompanied by much giggling, but there’s one aspect of human s*xuality--rape--that is often presented as simultaneously catastrophic and unmentionable, especially in older books. As a result, teachers can easily shy away from discussing s*xual assault even when it’s an important part of a book’s plot.

04/29/2024

Summer SAT: Learn everything you need to know to ace the new digital SAT! This 6-week series includes two hours of SAT English and two hours of SAT math. English classes will include:

SAT vocabulary
Grammar
In-depth review of SAT math
Skills drills
Analysis of each question type
Tips for avoiding trick wording in answer choices

Classes begin the week of July 8 and end the week of August 12; times to be determined based on enrollment.

Cost:

English: $420
Math: $420
English and Math: $800

Contact: Send a short email that includes your name and preferred lesson times to [email protected].

03/22/2024

Sink or Swim: Raising Standards Fast
SAt the end of January, I accepted a part-time job teaching two English classes at a small private religious school in addition to my full-time work as a private tutor. One class, a mixture of seventh- and eighth-graders, had just begun reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, a Newberry Award winning book that’s been a standard of middle school English classes since the 1990s, when I taught it at another religious school. Then, the students responded enthusiastically to the novel’s critique of “sameness.” They connected it to A Wrinkle in Time, which many had read on their own, and class discussion needed only a little guidance from me. It was, in teaching terms, an unqualified success...https://www.elizabethbreau.net/post/sink-or-swim-raising-standards-fast

02/28/2024

Easy Peasy: Parsing the English Modules on the Digital SAT

One of my ninth grade students recently tried the first English module on the new digital SAT for the first time. It took him almost twice as long as the 32 minutes the test allows, but he only got one question--about comma placement--wrong. He’ll have to speed up, of course, when he takes the test for real in eleventh grade, but he basically already knows everything he needs to know…https://www.elizabethbreau.net/post/easy-peasy-parsing-the-english-modules-on-the-digital-sat

01/31/2024

Getting Kids to Write Ideas, Not Just Words

When I tell people that I’m an English teacher, they often confess that they were bad at spelling or punctuation. I never quite know what to say because that isn’t really what I teach. Those things are important, of course, but they matter less than whether the writer is saying anything worth reading…https://www.elizabethbreau.net/post/getting-kids-to-write-ideas-not-just-words

12/19/2023

I recently joined the Camps with Friends online directory. It provides access to a network of camps and enrichment activities for children around the country. This morning, I was interviewed by managing partner Jason Mellet. Check it out!

Prep For Success & Camps With Friends.

12/14/2023

https://www.elizabethbreau.net/post/turn-on-your-child-s-brain

Experts have been imploring parents to reduce their children’s screen time since the 1970s, when a limited number of children’s programs were available for a few hours a day. Concerns grew with each new screen technology--video games, cell phones, and social media--and a number of studies have n...

12/05/2023

Winter Break SAT English Boot Camp!
December 26-29 10:00 am-12:00 pm $120/student

Get ready for the English modules on the new digital SAT! Learn the testing strategies that top students use! Beef up your grammar skills! Join Prep for Success students for a fun, productive class that will set you up for success on the test this spring!

Call 732-882-9033 or send an email to [email protected] to register or to ask for more information.

11/14/2023

Word Soup: Why We Need Grammar

The American educational system has often had a conflicted relationship with English grammar, possibly arising from the conflict between education for the elite, who learned Latin and Greek in school, and education for the masses, which was often limited to basic literacy and numeracy. Studies have suggested that studying grammar does not make people better writers, and many English teachers have been content to leave grammar instruction to high school foreign language teachers who teach the grammar rules of whatever language they teach...https://www.elizabethbreau.net

11/06/2023

I’m proud to announce that my book, History According to SAT: A Content Guide to SAT Reading and Writing, has been named a finalist in the YA Nonfiction category by American Book Fest! http://americanbookfest.com/2023bbafullresults.html
Young Adult Nonfiction
Winner
Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak by Argita and Detina Zalli
Sandra Jonas Publishing
Finalist
History According to SAT: A Content Guide to SAT Reading and Writing by Elizabeth Breau, Ph.D.
Prep for Success, LLC
Finalist
SQL Quest: A Journey Through Data by Neha Saini
Independently Published
Finalist
The C.A.P.E. Crusade: Your Guide to a Great College Application Personal Essay by Billy Lombardo
Muse Literary
Finalist
The Things He Could Have Been: Stories of Babe Ruth by W. Nikola-Lisa
Gyroscope Books