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Designed for first year students in postsecondary technical schools, this curriculum guide, comprising 22 modularized instructional subunits, is designed to create among the students (1) an awareness of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, (2) motivation for exploring entrepreneurship as a distinct career option, (3) acquaintance with the skills, knowledges, and attitudes required of an entrepreneur, and (4) an insight into the problems and prospects inherent in entrepreneurship. Each of the 22 subunits is organized in four major units: Concept Factors, Personal Factors, World Factors, and Managerial Transition Factors. The subunits are designed to be taught in forty-four 50-minute sessions. However, the authors note that they are flexible to the extent that they can be taught in 40 sessions or spread over 48 or 50 sessions. (A 2-week orientation to the teaching of entrepreneurship is recommended for teachers who intend to use this curriculum.) Each unit begins with a brief introduction describing its major topics. With one exception, each subunit is designed to cover a single topic, which is described in the student objective for that subunit. Each subunit includes overall and enabling objectives, resources, information for the teacher on advance preparation, instructional activities, recommended class time, and a bibliography. (SH)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert