Greetings
SAS® Curriculum Pathways® Users,

With fall officially here, I hope that your classes are progressing well and that you are availing yourself of the latest refinements in SAS Curriculum Pathways. To help you, we'll be offering, within the next week, online professional development sessions with a discipline-specific focus.

As the drive toward this year's exciting presidential election moves into high gear, we also want to call your attention to our Electoral College InterActivity, which allows social studies students to immerse themselves in the history of that institution and to view the events in the weeks ahead through the eyes of informed citizens.

We'd also encourage you to explore the range of materials in our new Literary Genres InterActivity, which are designed to support struggling and reluctant readers in ways that ordinary print materials simply can't.

As always we'd love to hear from you about how the product is working with your students and about anything we can do to help meet your changing needs.

We wish you and your students all the best this fall.

Sincerely,

Bruce Friend
Director, SAS Curriculum Pathways

Register Now for Discipline-Specific Q & A
Beginning Oct. 15, SAS curriculum specialists will conduct online, discipline-specific professional development sessions. The focus will be on best practices for using SAS Curriculum Pathways. You can register online for upcoming sessions in mathematics, Spanish, science, English and social studies.

The Presidential Election and Your Classroom
Get students talking about the political process during this year’s election with our Electoral College InterActivity. Since the disputed 2000 election, the Electoral College has been the focus of intense interest. Our InterActivity lets students explore the constitutional foundation of the Electoral College and the history of disputed US presidential elections. Students will examine primary sources as they attempt to answer this question: Is the Electoral College a fair method of selecting the president?

Reading Comprehension and Mythology
Our new Literary Genres InterActivities target struggling and reluctant readers. In Reading Mythology, students improve comprehension by becoming active rather than passive readers as they explore a short Native American myth. Activities before, during and after reading help to engage students in ways that ordinary print materials cannot. As part of the assessment activities, students work at summarizing the myth and drawing conclusions.

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