Agenda, January 27, 2011 Use your Notebook to complete the following Quick-write. While you work on the quick-write, I will stamp your chart 7 Factors of High Achieving Students that should be in your Notebook. Complete the chart by interviewing your classmates. Think-Pair-Share, originally assigned yesterday. “What’s your learning style?” Pie Chart, to be added in the notebook. Workbook Lesson 7, on page 9. Plan a poster on in your notebook . For an academic strategy, Guidebook pages 11 & 12.

Objectives, Students Shall; Determine which classmates possess the 7 Factors of High Achieving Students by interviewing their peers and recording the results in their notebooks. In the form of a quick-write explain the importance of the 7 Factors of High Achieving Students. Create a pie chart of the 8 Multiple Intelligences/Learning Styles of Howard Gardner (including examples of matching assignments).

Quick-write 1/27/2011, choose two quotes to interpret Quick-write 1/27/2011, choose two quotes to interpret. Complete this in your notebook. Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. Quoted from William Arthur Ward What does not destroy me, makes me strong. Friedrich Nietzsche You always pass failure on the way to success. Mickey Rooney

Factors of High Achieving Students Chart Guidebook page 9 Its meaning Do you have the factor? Classmates which posses this Factor 1. Belief in Self 2. Supportive Adults 3. Network of Achieving Peers 4. Appropriate Challenges 5. Personal Characteristics 6. Family Support 7. Resilience

Think-Pair-Share, originally scheduled for yesterday. Why are the 7 Factors of High Achieving Students important to you and other high school students. Answer this in your Notebook. In case you think the 7 Factors of High Achieving Students are not important for you, then how could they be important to other students.

Lesson 7 in the Workbook, page 9 Complete the Reflective Essay found on this page. You must use all of the ideas mentioned in this chapter from Guidebook pages 3-9. The Guidebook has presented enough information for you to write an essay that fits in the entire space. Remember to include in your essay an introduction, body, & conclusion. Your response must respond to the questions found in the second sentence of the prompt.