QUOTE OF THE DAY:



QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm XMustang RoundUp Character Trait of the Week:PreparednessDay 1:Using your Agenda to Be PreparedSynopsis – Students will discover ways to use their agenda to be prepared. To begin think of a way you stay prepared. Share an appropriate personal story about using a planning system - like an agenda. Share how it changed your life and alleviated stress. Explain to students that their lives are not going to get less stressful heading towards the upper grades and high school. Explain that now is the time to learn to set goals and organize their lives.Use the Powerpoint on Preparedness to Guide students through utilization of the agenda.The lesson will utilize COLOR, SYMBOL, IMAGE. At the end of the lesson their agenda should be filled with things to do and a system they use to acknowledge what they need to do this week.Explanation of CSI: Color, Symbol, Image? Select one of the ideas about agenda use that the class has identified, such as “deadlines.” Ask students what color they might use to represent the essence of a deadline?? Select another idea from agenda use such as an after school practice or club and ask the class what symbol they could use to represent that idea.??You might define a symbol as a simple line representation or uncomplicated drawing, such as two crossed lines to denote an intersection of ideas, or a circle to represent wholeness or completeness.? Then pick another idea from the agenda (like goal setting) and ask students what image they might use to represent that idea.??You might define an image as a visual image that is more complex and fully developed than just a symbol, like a long term goal.Explain they will now develop a CSI system with a partner to share with the class.They will need to explain what colors, symbols, and images they will use with their agendas. They will also need to put this to work in their agendas. At the end of the lesson the agenda should be filled and organized with color, symbol, and image work.DAY 2:EAT THAT FROG: Organizing tasks to be prepared.Synopsis- Students will learn to prioritize their task lists.To being have students open their Agenda to October 8. Have them look over the week (now that it is filled out with things they are doing this week) and create a HEADLINE for the week.Students will be prompted to create a list of things to do. They could create this list in the agenda or on a piece of paper. This is up to teacher discretion. After students have a list they will be prompted to watch EAT THAT FROG. This video explains that if you do the one thing that you don’t want to do first then other tasks will come more easily.Students will reflect on the video. They will review some helpful hints on prioritizing. They will close the lesson with a second HEADLINE activity.Explanation of HEADLINES? This routine draws on the idea of newspaper-type headlines as a vehicle for summing up and capturing the essence of an event, idea, concept, topic, etc. The routine asks one core question:1. If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right now to captured the most important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be? (this is used to begin our lesson on Oct 8th)A second question involves probing how students' ideas of what is most important and central to the topic being explored have changed over time:2. Create a headline based on today's discussion. How does your headline differ from what you would have said yesterday? (this is used at the end of the lesson) ................
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