1. Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Journal: Watch the following moving visual text. As you view it the second time,
analyze the text, explaining the director’s purpose.
Learning Target:
I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN determine the central idea of the Olympic/Paralympic Values.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

2. Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Journal: Using your Phrase/Clause Toolbox, combine the following sentences: The Olympic / Paralympic Values are important to athletes in the Sochi 2014 Games. The 7 Habits are important to achieving goals and reaching your dreams.
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.I CAN determine the central idea of the Olympic/Parlympic Values. I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.
…then click the placeholders to add your own pictures and captions.

3. Friday, February 7, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote: “Small changes can make huge destination differences.”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
AGENDA
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text. I CAN determine the central idea of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

4. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014
Journal: Using your Phrase/Clause Toolbox, combine the following sentences: The seven habits are critical to life success. The Olympic/Paralympic Values help athletes become successful in their sports.
AGENDA
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN determine the central idea of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

5. Research Winter 2014 Olympic Athletes and Make Notes over their Life
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote: The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
Wilma Rudolph – OLYMPIC ATHLETE
AGENDA
Research Winter 2014 Olympic Athletes and Make Notes over their Life
Learning Targets:
I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

6. Wednesday, February 12, 2014 AGENDA Book Study – Habits 5 & 6
Journal: Write the following quote: Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
AGENDA
Book Study – Habits 5 & 6
Framework Notes
Learning Targets:
I CAN analyze the last Three Habits of Highly Effective Teens and apply them to Winter Olympians. I
CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

7. Thursday,
February 13, 2014
Journal: Using your Phrase/Clause Toolbox, combine the following into a sentence and correct the mistakes: the Olympyc athleats are amazing even if thay dont when a medle they are stylle the best in there sports
AGENDA
HABIT 6 – Olympic Athlete Moving Visual Text
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN determine the central idea of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

8. Friday, February 14, 2014 HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Journal: Using your Phrase/Clause Toolbox, combine the following into a sentence and correct the mistakes: the Olympyc athleats are amazing even if thay dont when a medle they are stylle the best in there sports
AGENDA
Olympic Athlete Moving Visual Text
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN determine the central idea of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

9. Complete Olympic Athlete Profile for 2 Athletes
Monday,
February 17, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote:“The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.” – Peggy Fleming
AGENDA
Complete Olympic Athlete Profile for 2 Athletes
Research and make notes over 8 more athletes in at least 6 different sports!
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

10. COMPLETE OLYMPIAN RESEARCH
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote:“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.” Jesse Owens
AGENDA
MEDAL CEREMONY VIDEO
COMPLETE OLYMPIAN RESEARCH
COMPLETE 2 OLYMPIC ATHLETE PROFILE – ADD IN THE HABITS AND VALUES EXPLAINING
Learning Target: I CAN analyze the central idea of the moving visual text.
I CAN analyze the Winter Olympic Sport/Athlete who embodies the Values and Habits I aspire to achieve.

11. Journal: Write the following quote: “We become what we repeatedly do.”
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote: “We become what we repeatedly do.”
– Sean Covey
AGENDA
Use Graphic Organizer – OLYMPIC RINGS – and Olympic Athlete Profile to organize My Letter to My Chosen Winter Olympian using the Habits and Values
Learning Target:
I CAN write a letter to develop real experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
I CAN engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view; organize a letter that unfolds naturally and logically.
I CAN use narrative techniques, such as pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences and events.

12. Friday, February 21, 2014 Journal: Write the following quote:
“Don’t wait until people are dead to give them flowers.” – Sean Covey
AGENDA
Use Graphic Organizer – OLYMPIC RINGS –
Work on Opening and Closing Paragraph Pre-Write – DUE AT END OF CLASS
Work on Transitions on Pre-Write Paper
TODAY is a 30 POINT DAY!
Learning Target:
I CAN use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and show the relationships among experiences and events.

13. Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”
Monday, February 24, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote:
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
AGENDA
Write First Draft of Letter – DUE TOMORROW
Learning Target:
I CAN write a letter to develop real experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
I CAN engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view; organize a letter that unfolds naturally and logically.
I CAN use narrative techniques, such as pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences and events.
I CAN provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

14. Journal: Write the following quote:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote:
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
AGENDA
COLOR BLOCKING LETTER EDIT
7 HABITS/VALUES – GREEN – 3 min
RESEARCH – ORANGE – 3 min.
CONNECTION – PINK – 3 min.
CONVERSATIONAL TONE – 3 min.
15 min. pass read/edit red/blue pen activity
I CAN develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed, with some guidance and support from peers and adults.
I CAN provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

15. Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Journal: Write the following quote:
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou
AGENDA
Write next DRAFT of Letter
Color Block Letter, EDIT, Revise
Post-it Note Conversations
Use Dictionary, Transitions, Phrase and Clause Tool Box
I CAN write a letter to develop real experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
I CAN engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view; organize a letter that unfolds naturally and logically.

16. Thursday, February 27, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote:
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” - John Steinbeck
AGENDA
Write next DRAFT of Letter
Color Block Letter, EDIT, Revise
Post-it Note Conversations
Use Dictionary, Transitions, Phrase and Clause Tool Box
IF READY…
BEGIN PEN DRAFT LETTER
I CAN develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed, with some guidance and support from peers and adults.

17. Journal: Write the following quote:
Friday, February 28, 2014
Journal: Write the following quote:
"The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now." - Bill Cosby
Miss Cutie Pie SmileyFace
c/o Mrs. Joanna Lindsey
Franklin-Simpson Middle School
322 S. College Street
Franklin, KY 42134
AGENDA
Write PEN DRAFT of Letter
Post-it Note Conversations
Use Dictionary, Transitions, Phrase and Clause Tool Box
DUE AT CLASS END!
I CAN produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

18. 7 HABITS (H) / OLYMPIC – PARALYMPIC VALUES (V) CONNECTIONS = GREEN
MAY NOT HAVE THIS IN OPENING PARAGRAPH!
RESEARCHED CONNECTION - DOCUMENTED CORRECTLY – SOURCE STATED = ORANGE
HOT PINK = YOUR CONNECTION TO OLYMPIAN!
YOUR VOICE w/ TONE / SYMPATHY/ EMPATHY/CONVERSATIONAL= YELLOW
RED PEN – EDITING CORRECTION MARKS TO MAKE WRITER CHECK SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, GRAMMAR, ETC.
BLUE PEN- COMMENTS TO WRITE…WHAT YOU LIKED…HOW YOU FELT…WHAT WAS GOOD!

19. BOOK STUDY!
Complete through pages 155 in the reading!
Pages 1-32 in the Workbook!