Lesson Plans are subject to change and will be updated as time allows.
Week of October 27
- Monday: Turn in PBA Balance Sheet (turn in tomorrow if you forgot! If you turned it in today at the beginning of the hour, you will get extra credit); Read from The Revealers; highs/lows; Discovering Differences sheet
- Tuesday: Finish reading from The Revealers; group discussion in class - Discovering Differences
- Wednesday: Discovering Differences discussion;
- Thursday: Finish Discovering Differences discussion; Do Fruit Survey and Discussion; in-class assignment on Fruit Survey
- Friday: Last Day of the Nine Weeks! Review Comet Character; Teamwork Activity
Week of October 20
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; finish PBA notes; pass out PBA deposit/withdrawal sheet - due NEXT MONDAY! Example of Miss K's sheet
- Tuesday: Journal (Using your notes - what is your greatest deposit and greatest withdrawal? Explain); read from The Revealers; group work in class - Kindness sheet
- Wednesday: No Journal Today. Read from The Revealers; computer lab to write thank you letters for teachers
- Thursday: Journal (Our heroes in The Revealers seem to be losing! What do you think is going to happen?); Collect journals: Read from The Revealers; Teamwork activity
- Friday: Computer lab - finish thank you letters to staff members (act of kindness) REMEMBER - PBA Deposit due on Monday!)
Week of October 13
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Discussion on SIP writing; close-reading using reading strategies of the article Americans' Negativity About U.S. Moral Values Inches Back UP
- Tuesday: Journal (Brainstorm ideas for SIP, do an outline, write your opening paragraph = your choice!); Reading from The Revealers; Working on graph of principles to turn in with SIP paper - will continue tomorrow.
- Wednesday: Working on graph of principles to turn in with SIP paper; Reading from The Revealers; No journal
- Thursday: Journal (Free write); Reading from The Revealers; Begin PBA information
- Friday: No journal today; Notes on PBA; finish teamwork activity. PRETZEL pictures to come soon!
Week of October 6
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Discussion on lockdown drill; begin notes on life centers
- Tuesday: Journal (talk about one of the areas we have paradigms on - self, others, or life); Read from The Revealers; continue notes on life centers
- Wednesday: Journal (free write); Lockdown drill; Read from The Revealers; Finish life center notes and notes on principles
- Thursday: Journal (which three principles are the most important to you and why?); Read from The Revealers; discuss and plot three most important principles and the three principles you think the world needs more of (green - world; purple - student). Will be used for SIP writing
- Friday: Journal (what did you learn this week); Read from The Revealers; Team problem solving activity: The Pretzel
Week of September 29
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; In class work on examples for effective and defective habits. For HOMEWORK: Give examples for three of the seven habits. In-class sheet example for Habit 1
- Tuesday: Journal (Do you think boys act differently than girls? Explain); discussion on journal; collect homework; read The Revealers; Top 10 stupid quotes
- Wednesday: Journal (Are you excited for fall? Why or why not); read The Revealers; Read stupid quotes from kids; Notes on Paradigms (point of view or belief system - have on Self, Others, Life). Do Mirror Mirror Sheet (10 positive things about self) MISS K's EXAMPLE
- Thursday: Journal (free write); read The Revealers; Using yesterday's Mirror Mirror homework, go up and say one nice thing to yourself in a mirror.
- Friday: Journal (what did you learn in school this week) and turn in; discussion of Mirror Mirror and paradigms on others; challenge to treat others well
Week of September 22
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Riddle questions. HOMEWORK: Do you agree that all the answers to the riddle should be habit? Why or why not? At least five sentences.
- Tuesday: SUB: Journal (Free write); Reading from The Revealers; Collect Homework; Habit Notes and activities (Arm cross and numbers); In class work: Round-Table on Habits (Good, Bad, Neutral)
- Wednesday: Journal (Talk about your best habit and your worst habit); Reading from The Revealers; Finish Round-Table on Habits; Class discussion on habits
- Thursday: Journal (What do you think of The Revealers so far?); Reading from The Revealers; Habit Chart and Notes
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Notes on Habits (benefits and defective habits); Do 1st habit examples of effective and defective
Week of September 15
- Monday: SUB Journal (tell me about your weekend); High-Lows; Character A-Z (list of character traits from A-Z in groups)
- Tuesday: SUB Journal (what three character traits would you like to make better in yourself and why?); begin reading The Revealers; compile a class list of Character A-Z from yesterday's work
- Wednesday: No journal today; reading The Revealers; finish A-Z list; group poster on character
- Thursday: Reading The Revealers; finish group poster
- Friday: Teamwork activity
Week of September 8
- Monday: Journal (tell me about your weekend); High-Lows; Begin Sticks and Stones Activity
- Tuesday: Journal (what qualities do you look for in a friend?); begin reading The Revealers; continue Sticks and Stones Activity
- Wednesday: Journal (what makes you a good friend?); reading The Revealers; continue Sticks and Stones Activity;
- Thursday: Journal (why do you think people are mean?); reading The Revealers; finish sticks and stones
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn this week at school/home?) TURN IN. Class meeting
Week of September 1
- Monday: No school - Labor Day
- Tuesday: Welcome back, General discipline forms
- Wednesday: Parent Letter, Class description, Character Traits seating chart activity, begin Kuhrt A-Z (all found on main class page),
- Thursday: Finish Kuhrt A-Z, Get to know your teacher quiz, Slam book
- Friday: Student search, Teamwork Activities