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LESSON 11:Mission
HANDOUT
Michelangelo created his artistic masterpieces in his mind before creating them on a wall, ceiling, canvas, or stone. Henry Ford envisioned the design for the first automobile before he built it. Both of these men stepped back from life and took time to visualize what they wanted to create.
Think deeply about your life and purpose. Write a response for each of the following questions:
What are your greatest strengths?
Math, art, memory(that is, if i try to).
What do you deeply enjoy doing?
Drawing, reading, and badminton.
What things are most important to you?
Books, friends, family, computer
Family Reflection
LESSON 11: Discuss your collective mission as a family. If asked, how would people you know describe your family? How would you want them to describe you? What do you spend your collective family time doing or talking about? What is important to you?
People would describe my family as a nice, small, messy family. I would want them to describe us as a smart, nice, and big family. We spend our time playing sports outdoors. My goals are important to me.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Lesson 10
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L E S S O N 10: Vision
HANDOUT
Visualize yourself, about a half block away, walking toward yourself. You see yourself as you would like to be one year from now.
What do you look like?
I look myself, but more mature and strong.
What things are important to you?
My job, my friends, and my dreams.
What have you done over the past year with your life?
I have worked harder and made more friends.
How would your friends describe the "year from now" you?
They would say that I've changed.
Family Reflection
LESSON 10: Discuss your family's future: what does it hold for you? Are you going to have the relationships that you want with each other? As a family, are you making things happen, or are you on autopilot?
My family is probably going back to live in China in the future. For me, I might have to stay here by myself. So I would not be seeing my family much.
L E S S O N 10: Vision
HANDOUT
Visualize yourself, about a half block away, walking toward yourself. You see yourself as you would like to be one year from now.
What do you look like?
I look myself, but more mature and strong.
What things are important to you?
My job, my friends, and my dreams.
What have you done over the past year with your life?
I have worked harder and made more friends.
How would your friends describe the "year from now" you?
They would say that I've changed.
Family Reflection
LESSON 10: Discuss your family's future: what does it hold for you? Are you going to have the relationships that you want with each other? As a family, are you making things happen, or are you on autopilot?
My family is probably going back to live in China in the future. For me, I might have to stay here by myself. So I would not be seeing my family much.
Lesson 9
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LESSON 9: The Pause Button
1) Get yourself into groups of five or six and create a scene, commercial, role play, poem or song that best illustrates the ideas behind The Pause Button
Girl comes home from school: I'm home.
She goes the living room and saw her cat spitting her goldfish into her fishbowl. Her goldfish was dead.
Girl starts crying: Bad cat. You are grounder for 2 months!
Cat: meow.
Cat runs toward girl's mom.
Girl's mom: What's wrong, honey? Why are you crying? You should calm down a bit and tell me about the problem.
Girl: Problem? I learned a new way to solve problems at school today. Look, PAUSE.
Girl thinks: Why would cat eat the fish? My cat wouldn't do that. She hates fish and only likes milk. Maybe fish jumped out, and cat was just putting her back.
Girl: Mom, our cat doesn't eat fish, right?
Girl's mom: Yes. But fish? what fish?
Girl points at dead fish.
Mom: Oh my, how did the fish get here? I just threw her in the toilet a while ago.
Girl: so cat wasn't eating fish! Good cat.
She pats the cat on the head.
Girl: press pause. It helps.
=D
2) Write in your journal about a quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Family reflections
LESSON 9: Decide on a family code word or phrase to remind each other to count to 10 before sinking into a "reactive rant zone." Post your Press Pause phrase on your fridge.
Hold on, pause, find a way.
LESSON 9: The Pause Button
1) Get yourself into groups of five or six and create a scene, commercial, role play, poem or song that best illustrates the ideas behind The Pause Button
Girl comes home from school: I'm home.
She goes the living room and saw her cat spitting her goldfish into her fishbowl. Her goldfish was dead.
Girl starts crying: Bad cat. You are grounder for 2 months!
Cat: meow.
Cat runs toward girl's mom.
Girl's mom: What's wrong, honey? Why are you crying? You should calm down a bit and tell me about the problem.
Girl: Problem? I learned a new way to solve problems at school today. Look, PAUSE.
Girl thinks: Why would cat eat the fish? My cat wouldn't do that. She hates fish and only likes milk. Maybe fish jumped out, and cat was just putting her back.
Girl: Mom, our cat doesn't eat fish, right?
Girl's mom: Yes. But fish? what fish?
Girl points at dead fish.
Mom: Oh my, how did the fish get here? I just threw her in the toilet a while ago.
Girl: so cat wasn't eating fish! Good cat.
She pats the cat on the head.
Girl: press pause. It helps.
=D
2) Write in your journal about a quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Family reflections
LESSON 9: Decide on a family code word or phrase to remind each other to count to 10 before sinking into a "reactive rant zone." Post your Press Pause phrase on your fridge.
Hold on, pause, find a way.
Lessono 8
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L E S S O N 8 : Initiative and Influence
HANDOUT
Is there an area in your life you are unhappy about or frustrated by-classes, a subject, friends, family, work?
Yes. Socials studies.
What are you unhappy about or frustrated by? For example, do you feel powerless, hopeless, or used? Describe the situation.
I need new glasses. Because I can't see anything when we are supposed to take notes.
How have you been responding? What do you do? What is your attitude?
I copy the note from my friends. I feel okay because there are other people who couldn't see the notes.
What other (more proactive) ways might you respond to this situation?
I might tell the teacher and let him send the notes to me by email.
If this situation comes up during the week, remember to take a moment and choose your response. Set up an action plan with steps on how to change your reactive reaction to one where you are more in control and feeling better about the situation.
Family Reflections
LESSON 8: Take initiative. Make "What can I do about this?" your question of the month. Get your family into "influence and initiative" mode.
What can I do about this???
L E S S O N 8 : Initiative and Influence
HANDOUT
Is there an area in your life you are unhappy about or frustrated by-classes, a subject, friends, family, work?
Yes. Socials studies.
What are you unhappy about or frustrated by? For example, do you feel powerless, hopeless, or used? Describe the situation.
I need new glasses. Because I can't see anything when we are supposed to take notes.
How have you been responding? What do you do? What is your attitude?
I copy the note from my friends. I feel okay because there are other people who couldn't see the notes.
What other (more proactive) ways might you respond to this situation?
I might tell the teacher and let him send the notes to me by email.
If this situation comes up during the week, remember to take a moment and choose your response. Set up an action plan with steps on how to change your reactive reaction to one where you are more in control and feeling better about the situation.
Family Reflections
LESSON 8: Take initiative. Make "What can I do about this?" your question of the month. Get your family into "influence and initiative" mode.
What can I do about this???
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Lesson 7
Extensions: Proactive Language
Handout
Scenario A
You overhear your best friend bad-mouthing you in front of a group. She doesn't know you overheard the conversation. Just five minutes ago, this same friend was sweet-talking you to your face. You feel hurt and betrayed.
If you were reactive, what might you say?
"We are not friends anymore."
If you were proactive, what would you say?
"Wow. That's great. You guys are talking about how awesome I am!"
Scenario B
Your mother has grounded you for the rest of the month because you didn't come home from a friend's sleep-over party by the time you said you would. You feel hurt, not only because she doesn't seem to be listening to your reasons for being late, but also because she hasn't really been around for you to talk to much lately.
If you were reactive, what might you say?
"You don't even care about me!"
If you were proactive, what would you say?
"Okay. Calm down and we should talk."
It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do about it. -W. Mitchell
Family Reflections
LESSON 7: Listen this week as a family, and catch each other using reactive language. Be proactive! Talk the talk of someone with self-control.
used reactive language:
I can't do it.
I suck.
It's not fair.
Handout
Scenario A
You overhear your best friend bad-mouthing you in front of a group. She doesn't know you overheard the conversation. Just five minutes ago, this same friend was sweet-talking you to your face. You feel hurt and betrayed.
If you were reactive, what might you say?
"We are not friends anymore."
If you were proactive, what would you say?
"Wow. That's great. You guys are talking about how awesome I am!"
Scenario B
Your mother has grounded you for the rest of the month because you didn't come home from a friend's sleep-over party by the time you said you would. You feel hurt, not only because she doesn't seem to be listening to your reasons for being late, but also because she hasn't really been around for you to talk to much lately.
If you were reactive, what might you say?
"You don't even care about me!"
If you were proactive, what would you say?
"Okay. Calm down and we should talk."
It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do about it. -W. Mitchell
Family Reflections
LESSON 7: Listen this week as a family, and catch each other using reactive language. Be proactive! Talk the talk of someone with self-control.
used reactive language:
I can't do it.
I suck.
It's not fair.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
big chart: feb. 28
date: Feb.28
| Lesson | WorkBook | Quiz | Extensions | Family Reflections | Get Go |
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| 1-6 | Done | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| 7-9 | Done | Done | / | / | Done |
| 10 | / | Done | / | / | Done |
| 11-14 | / | Done | / | / | / |
| 15-16 | Done | Done | / | / | Done |
| 17 | / | Done | / | / | Done |
| 18 | / | Done | / | / | / |
| 19-23 | / | Done | / | / | Done |
Lesson 6
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LESSON 6: Be Proactive
HANDOUT
People are proactive when they do not blame other things or people for what happens to them. Reactive people try to hold other people or things responsible for their behavior. Read the examples below and explain why you think they are proactive or reactive.
Situation #1
Leilani hadn't done the assigned reading for her English class, so when the due date for a book review on the reading came around, she had no report to turn in. Instead of telling her teacher that there hadn't been enough time given for the assignment, she thought about all of the TV she'd watched over the weekend. She told the teacher she hadn't made good use of her time and asked if she could turn in the paper the next day for a late grade.
How was Leilani proactive or reactive?
Leilani was being reactive when she was blaming her teacher for not giving her enough time on the report. She was being proactive when she thought about her weekend and took the blame herself.
Situation #2
Karl and his friends had been waiting anxiously for the school holiday because they had planned to go rollerblading on the sidewalks of a nearby college campus. When he saw it raining hard the morning they were set to go, he felt so angry that the weather was bad that he told his friends he just didn't feel like doing anything. He staying inside all day and complained to his family about his rotten luck.
How was Karl proactive or reactive?
Karl was being reactive because he was getting mad at things he couldn't control, and complaining to his family. His actions wouldn't change anything.
Situation #3
Brittany felt bad when she didn't get a part in the school play. But after she thought about it for a few minutes, she realized that the biggest reason she'd gone for a part was that she wanted to be involved in the production, so she got a job with the stage crew. She helped paint the sets and worked the lights during the play, and by the time the production was over, she felt she'd had as much fun, if not more fun, being backstage as she would have had with an onstage role.
How was Brittany proactive or reactive?
Brittany was being proactive because when she didn't get in the school play, she went to find another way to participate in the play. When one door is closed, a better door opens.
Family Reflections
LESSON 6: At home, when is your family highly reactive? How can you help each other be more proactive?
My family is highly reactive when my grandfather was dying. We could help eachother by caring more about eachother and my grandmother. My parents get highly reactive when it's time to pay the rent and taxes.
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