No warm-up today! Have a seat anywhere and say hello to someone you don’t know yet. Please get out your name tag (or make a new one) and make sure it’s visible.

Welcome! Please get out your nametag (from yesterday) and place it on your desk so I can see your name. Warm-up: Tell me one thing about yourself that you would like me to know that I wouldn’t know from looking at you. It can be ANYTHING that you think I should know. After class, drop off the warm-up on the stool in front.

 Period 2: Ms. Boden is looking for a T.A.  Does everyone have a textbook? A MINUTE OF SERIOUS TIME…  Our goal for the year: to improve work ethic.  What is work ethic?  Why is it important?  How do you improve your own work ethic?  If you don’t improve your work ethic, who pays the price?

 Soon we will be getting to know each other, but before we do, a note on communicating…  We all communicate in some way every day. We understand what is being communicated by paying attention to these three things:  1. What is being said  2. How the person says it  3. How the person looks when he/she says it  Out of these three things, what do you think is most important in communicating? What do you think is the least important?

 Studies show that…  1. What is being said makes up 15% of the information we receive  2. How the person says it makes up 28% of the information that we receive  3. How the person looks when he/she says it makes up 57% of the information that we receive

 For example, imagine that you sent a text to a friend that read: “Hi! How are you?”  They responded back, “Hi”  What would your thoughts be about this response?

 “Hi” is simply what is being said, but humans crave more information to help us understand the message.  What could your friend do to help you understand how he/she is saying “hi”?  What could your friend do to help you understand how he/she looks when saying “hi”?

 “Hi” = what is said  “Hi!” = how it is said  “Hi” = how one looks when saying it

 Let’s put this principal into practice!  Find a partner who is sitting near you.  Discuss who will be communicator A and who will be communicator B

 When I say “go,” Communicator A will tell Communicator B about where he/she went to school last year, what his/her favorite class was last year and why that was his/her favorite class.  However, Communicator B is NOT ALLOWED to smile, nod, make expressions with his/her eyes or move at all. Communicator B must stare at Communicator A with a blank expression.  Ready?

 Now when I say “go,” Communicator B will tell Communicator A about where he/she went to school last year, what his/her favorite class was last year and why that was his/her favorite class.  This time, Communicator A should interact by smiling, nodding, make facial expressions, and use other body language to communicate interest.  Ready?

 Let’s share!  Is there a Communicator A who’d like to share how he/she felt?  Is there a Communicator B who’d like to share how he/she felt?  What’s the lesson?  Implications for class?  Implications for school work?  Implications for personal life?

 If we are going to spend the year discussing literature together, we should get to know each other!  We are going to participate in some “speed befriending”  Soon, you will be paired up with a new friend  I will give you a series of questions to ask your new friend and to have your new friend ask you.  I will give you three minutes per question to converse about the question at hand.  Take a minute to take notes after each question– you will be sharing the information you learn about your new friend later.