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WEEK OF June 6* -
- Monday: Open notes/worksheet end of class test
- Tuesday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; Habit 7
- Wednesday: Field Day
- Thursday: Awards Assembly; LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
- Friday:
WEEK OF May 30*
- Monday: No School - Memorial Day
- Tuesday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; Great Discovery worksheet
- Wednesday: Journal (What are your plans for summer break?); Great Discovery worksheet discussion
- Thursday: Journal (What are your dreams for the future?); Finish Great Discovery discussion and collect; Habit 2 notes; Begin life maps
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Finish Life Maps
WEEK OF May 23*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; begin PBA notes; Skits on Reactive v. Proactive people
- Tuesday: Journal (Free write); Read from The Revealers; Finish skits; finish Habit 1 Notes
- Wednesday: Journal (What are your goals and how are you going to achieve them?); Read from The Revealers; Do Habit 2 lead-in (puzzle activity)
- Thursday: No journal today; Read from The Revealers; Go to lab and find 10 quotes that represent you as a person
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Habit 7
WEEK OF May 16*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); begin Kindness Letters
- Tuesday: Journal (Why is it important to be kind?); Highs/Lows; finish video
- Wednesday: Finish kindness letters
- Thursday: Read from The Revealers; Promises/Promises worksheet and Kindness worksheet
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Habit 7 Activity
WEEK OF May 9*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; finish graphing assignment
- Tuesday: Journal ((If you could be the brother/sister of any one famous person, who would it be? Why? Tell me about your life with that person.); read article together for SIP; Go over SIP writing (change due date to Tuesday)
- Wednesday: Read from The Revealers; Listen to The Man in the Mirror; Journal (What do you think this song is saying?);
- Thursday: Journal (Free write); Read from The Revealers; PBA notes;
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Habit 7 Activity
WEEK OF May 2*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; tally class and world principles
- Tuesday: No class - M-Step
- Wednesday: Journal (Free write); Read from The Revealers; begin graphing assignment
- Thursday: Journal (Tell me about your M-STEP experience. What advice - beside getting rid of the test - would you give to the state?); Read from The Revealers; continue graphing assignment
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Habit 7 Activity
* WEEK OF April 25*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; finish life center notes; assignment
- Tuesday: Journal (); Read from The Revealers; Principles notes; Principles sheet and discussion of what each value means
- Wednesday: Journal (using the principles sheet from yesterday, which three principles do YOU value the most and why?);; Read from The Revealers; ASSIGNMENT: Which three principles do you think the world needs more of and why?
- Thursday: Journal (Free write); T Read from The Revealers;
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Habit 7 Activity
* WEEK OF April 11*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; Read from The Revealers
- Tuesday: Journal (Free write); Sticks and Stones Activity and Debrief
- Wednesday: Journal (Sticks and Stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Do you agree or disagree?); Read from The Revealers; finish debrief of sticks and stones
- Thursday: Journal (Today is the play. If you were in a play or movie, what would it be and why?); Read from The Revealers; discuss yesterday's journal
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Habit 7 Activity
* WEEK OF MARCH 28*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; Paradigm introduction Mirror, Mirror assignment - write 10 positive things about you on the Mirror, Mirror sheet. Here's Miss K's example from last year
- Tuesday: Journal (Free write); Read from The Revealers; Mirror/Mirror activity
- Wednesday: Journal (Do you have a positive or negative self paradigm? It's okay if you say it's negative - sometimes, mine is, too!); Read from The Revealers; Begin Sticks and Stones activity
- Thursday: Journal (What are you looking forward to about Spring Break?).); Read from The Revealers; Finish up people creation for Sticks and Stones - turn in.
- Friday: NO SCHOOL - ENJOY SPRING BREAK!
* WEEK OF MARCH 21*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; Habit notes and in-class activities;
- Tuesday: Journal (Tell me all about your good habits); Read from The Revealers; ss out habit "tree" chart; Notes about benefits of positive habits; Homework: Give two examples from your life of each of the seven habits of highly effective teens. Here's how I would set up my paper and here's an example from Miss Kuhrt
- Wednesday: Journal (What would you consider your worst habits? Which ones would you like to change the most? How are you going to change?); Read from The Revealers; go over negative habits (defective habits);
- Thursday: Journal (Do boys act differently than girls? Explain.).); Read from The Revealers; Assignment in class - 15 minutes to complete. If not done, do for homework Give two examples from your life of each of the seven habits of highly defective teens. Here's how I would set up my paper and here's an example from Miss KuhrtTop 10 stupid quotes;
- Friday: Journal: (Tell me what you learned in school this week.); Habit 7 activity
* WEEK OF MARCH 14*
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); Highs/Lows; work on Partner Interviews
- Tuesday: Journal (Free write); Read from The Revealers; Finish partner interview
- Wednesday: Journal (Tell me about a person that inspires you. Why do they inspire you?); Read from The Revealers; Finish partner interviews; Tornado Drill
- Thursday: Journal (Today is St. Patrick's Day. If you could invent a holiday, what would it be? Tell me about it).); Read from The Revealers;
- Friday: Journal: (Tell me what you learned in school this week.); Habit 7 activity
* WEEK OF MARCH 7 *
- Monday: Opening activity discussion (In two sentences, tell me what you think character means. In two sentences, tell me what you think Comet Character is all about. In one sentence, tell me one neat thing about you); Seating chart activity; Opening Letter (found on class page) Opening Parent Letter due on March 15; class description; go over basic routines (Journals, Highs/Lows, Reading); go over new classroom procedures
- Tuesday: Journal (What did you think of your first trimester of sixth grade? Tell me all about it!); Read from The Revealers; Riddle; Get student answers to the Riddle - give answer; Write a paragraph stating whether you agree or disagree with answer and why
- Wednesday: Journal (Do you know a bully? Have you ever been a bully? How do you stop a bully? Talk about bullying in general); Read from The Revealers; Do 1-54 activity and discuss
- Thursday: Journal (What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever done? Tell me about it.); Read from The Revealers; Partner Interview sheet
- Friday: Journal: (Tell me about a person who inspires you. Why do they inspire you?); Begin partner interview speech