"One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship....

Students will become equipped with foundations of rhetorical knowledge and develop the tools for critical thinking, writing, and analysis. Topics include: analyzing prose; rhetorical style; analyzing writing; thesis statement & research; critical analysis and literary discourse; situational, verbal, and dramatic irony; MLA, APA, Chicago manual style; online databases and Internet sources.

American Promise is a coming of age story exploring the lives of two African American boys and their families. Their hopes, struggles, achievements and failures are revealed as they make tough decisions to guarantee a better future for their boys.