Friday, March 21, 2025

Monday, March 30th

1. TED Talk - The gift and power of emotional courage
    ***5 Cs

Objective: Students will understand the psychology behind their emotions.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Monday, March 24th - Friday, March 28th

No school - Spring Break!

Friday, March 21st

1. Thank you letter - Who has motivated you the most?

2. "The Circle"

Objective: Students will build rapport with their peers.

Wednesday, March 19th

1. Watch and discuss "Inside Out"
    ***Discussion Questions

Objective: Students will reflect on how emotions impact memory.

Tuesday, March 18th

1. Journal #11 - Just Breathe

2. Take and discuss Motivated Evolutionary Thinking: Sociobiology

Objective: Students will dive deeper into what motivates them and thank someone who has.

Monday, March 17th

1.  Journal #10 - Motivation
    ***Discuss the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

2. Steve Jobs Speech
    ***Watch, discuss, discussion questions

Objective: Students will have an introduction to the psychology of motivation.

Friday, March 14th

1. Finalize Adolescent Magazine Articles and Images
    *** Final draft is due: Tonight before midnight!

Objective: Students will finalize their articles and artwork for the adolescent magazine.

Wednesday, March 12th

1. Adolescent Magazine Articles
    ***rough draft is due: today (at the beginning of the period)!
    ***peer-edit two different articles
    ***Work to finalize draft for publishing

Objective: Students will peer-edit and give feedback to their peers about their articles and artwork.

Tuesday, March 11th

1. Work on Adolescent Magazine article and image
   ***Rough draft due tomorrow at the beginning of the period

Objective: Students will write strong articles about adolescent development.

Monday, March 10th

1. Adolescent Development - Four Corner Debate

Objective: Students will use strong evidence and reasoning to defend their stance about the statements.

Friday, March 7th

1. Adolescent Magazine Project
    ***Discuss Reference Page and in-text citations
    ***Owl Purdue
    ***Discuss layout
    ***Work on outline/ rough draft of the article
    ***Rough draft (ready to peer-edit) is due: Wednesday, March 12th at the beginning of the period.

Objective: Students will work on the rough draft of their adolescent magazine article.

Wednesday, March 6th

1. Adolescent Development: Four Corner Debate
***Prepare evidence and reasoning
***Four Corner Debate - Monday, March 10th

2. Adolescent Magazine Project
    ***Work on outline/ rough draft of the article
    ***Work on original artwork

Objective: Students will work on the rough draft of their adolescent magazine article.

Tuesday, March 4th

1. Journal #9 - Empathy

2. Adolescent Magazine Project
***Work on outline/ rough draft of the article
***Work on original artwork

Objective: Students will work on the rough draft of their adolescent magazine article.

Monday, March 3rd

1. Present Kodak Moments slides 
   ***3rd period

2. Work on Adolescent Magazine article and image

Objective: Students will represent different aspects of adolescent development and psychology through original photographs.