1. WELCOME BACK! MR. NEWCOMB ECONOMICS LIGHTS…!?!?!?!
Tuesday September 5, 2017
WELCOME BACK!
MR. NEWCOMB
ECONOMICS
LIGHTS…!?!?!?!

2. Tuesday September 5, 2017 Today’s Schedule: 1st Hour: 7:14-7:44
2nd Hour 7:49-8:16
3rd Hour: 8:21-8:48
4th Hour: 8:53-9:20
5th Hour: 9:25- 9:52
6th Hour: 9:57-10:24

3. AGENDA: -What was your BEST memory of the summer? -Name Game
Tuesday September 5, 2017
AGENDA:
-What was your BEST memory of the summer?
-Name Game

4. Wednesday September 6th, 2017
AGENDA
- Syllabus
- Rules
- 5 Questions
- Name Game
- Getting to know you

5. Classroom rules 1) Have a Vision 2) Be a LEARNER not a finisher
3) Lean into struggle
4) Feed your PASSION
5) Own YOUR education

6. 5 QUESTIONS 1) What are the qualities that you look for in a teacher?
2) What are you passionate about?
3) What is one BIG question you have for this year?
4) What are your strengths and how can we utilize them?
5)What does success at the end of the year look like to you?

7. Thursday September 7th, 2017
AGENDA
- Name Game
- Getting to know you

8. Journal #1: Hunt the Good Stuff
Monday September 11th, 2017
Journal #1: Hunt the Good Stuff
Write down THREE positive experiences from this weekend. They can be small or large, things you brought on, things you witnessed in others. Next, to each positive event that you list, write a REFLECTION about 1 or more of the following topics:
Why this good thing happened?
What this good thing means to you?
What you can do tomorrow to enable more of this good thing?
What ways you or others contribute to this good thing ?
Good Thing 1:
Reflection:
Good Thing 2:
Good Thing 3:

9. Tuesday September 12, 2017
Agenda:
9/11 Activity

10. What’s Holding you down?
Gerda Weissmann Klein
In September 1939 at the age of 15, Gerda Weissman Klein’s peaceful middle-class life changed forever as German troops stormed the quaint streets of her southern Polish town. Under German occupation, the Weismann family was mandated to live in the basement of their beloved home and later forced into a Jewish ghetto. Her older brother Arthur was summoned by law to register with the German army. In 1942, her parents, Julius and Helene, were sent to Auschwitz, a death camp, while she was sent to Dulag, a transit camp. Klein would spend the next three years at a series of slave-labor and concentration camps, nearly avoiding execution on several occasions. She would never see her brother or parents again. Sixty-seven of her relatives, including all of her immediate family died in the Holocaust. Only Klein and her uncle, survived.

11. In early 1945, the then 20-year-old Klein was among 2,000 women ordered by the Nazis to begin a treacherous 350-mile death march to evade the advances of Allied Forces. The women were exposed to harsh winter elements, starvation, humiliation, and many were arbitrarily executed. Klein was one of less than 120 women who survived the journey. Despite the atrocities she experienced, Klein says she never lost the will to live. Klein’s childhood best friend died in her arms just days before they would be liberated by American forces on May 7, On the day of liberation, Klein was white-haired due to malnutrition, weighed a mere 68 pounds, and was one-day shy of her 21st birthday.

12. “I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up.” President Obama
Journal #2
Write on 1 of the following…
What is it in your life that is holding you back?
The power of forgiveness…is it more about the other person or more about you?
What do you take away from this story?

13. Wednesday September 13, 2017 AGENDA: Short Story
NCSS My College Options
9/11 Activity

14. Short Story: Caring
JOURNAL #3
Today on the streets of DOWNTOWN OKC, I passed a man simply asking for change as he held out an empty shoe polish canister. I had none, so I passed him and went on my way. On my return trip to the office, I found him and this woman sitting together. She did not give him change, she did not drop off a hot meal.....she sat down, cut her chicken wrap in half, and shared it with him. She did not leave, she sat and talked and asked genuine questions that many of us would ask while out to lunch with a friend. She did not treat him like a person to help, but a person to love….
What do you take away from this random act of kindness?
How can you apply this lesson here at school?

15. Thursday September 14, 2017
AGENDA:
Journal
9/11 Activity

16. Journal #4 Getting to know you
For today’s journal you will stand up and meet 1 other person **FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM** and find out 3 things about them: 1) ONE thing everyone knows about me 2) One thing you want people to know about you… 3) One thing NO ONE knows about you…. Finally, you will INTRODUCE your partner.

17. Friday September 15, 2017
AGENDA:
Journal
9/11 Presentations

18. Journal #6: Hunt the Good Stuff
Monday September 18th, 2017
Journal #6: Hunt the Good Stuff
Write down THREE positive experiences from this weekend. They can be small or large, things you brought on, things you witnessed in others. Next, to each positive event that you list, write a REFLECTION about 1 or more of the following topics:
Why this good thing happened?
What this good thing means to you?
What you can do tomorrow to enable more of this good thing?
What ways you or others contribute to this good thing ?
Good Thing 1:
Reflection:
Good Thing 2:
Good Thing 3:

19. 9/19/2017
#7 Journal Questions: Write Both Questions, then answer. Answers should be 3-4 sentences. 1.) What does it mean to be successful? 2.) Given everything that has happened to you in your life, is it possible for you to achieve success?

20. Success
“Success is PEACE OF MIND which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you DID YOUR BEST to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
John Wooden

21. 9/20/2017
#8 Journal Question: (Only have to write the red.) Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”. He not only preached this, but more importantly, he LIVED this. For your Exit Question, take a moment and write down ONE person in your life who you can help to be SUCCESSFUL. What would it require you to do? What would it mean for that person?

22. Thursday September 21, 2017 Journal # 9
Economists point out that all individuals make decisions that involve trade-offs. Describe one decision you made this week. Identify the tradeoff involved.

23. Journal #10: Hunt the Good Stuff
Monday September 25th, 2017
Journal #10: Hunt the Good Stuff
Write down THREE positive experiences from this weekend. They can be small or large, things you brought on, things you witnessed in others. Next, to each positive event that you list, write a REFLECTION about 1 or more of the following topics:
Why this good thing happened?
What this good thing means to you?
What you can do tomorrow to enable more of this good thing?
What ways you or others contribute to this good thing ?
Good Thing 1:
Reflection:
Good Thing 2:
Good Thing 3:

24. Journal #11 Nick Vujicic TED TALK
Tuesday September 26th, 2017
Journal #11 Nick Vujicic TED TALK
As you watch this, write down THREE things said that really hit home with you. 1. 2. 3.
At the conclusion of the video, give me the ONE message that you held on to. Almost as though you could swear the author was speaking directly to YOU.
How can you apply these lessons in your life?

25. JOURNAL #12 Wednesday September 27th
Page 11 discusses the cost/benefit analysis which can be used for making decisions. For today’s JOURNAL, think of a recent decision in which you could have used the “COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS”. Explain the “Marginal Cost” and “Marginal Benefit” of that decision.