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**Success and Leadership** Disclosure Document Mentor Disclosure Document

Welcome to Class!

Edmodo - Homework Help (Group Code = 1nq20m) MSNBC Episodes

Week 1
Day 1 - Go over disclosure document and explain policies. Introduce mentors. Explain EdModo. **Have them sign up** for this while they fill out a getting to know you survey. Have them meet 5 new people in class. []

Day 2 - Explain EdModo in more detail. Randomly assign 7th graders to a 9th grade mentor. Have them go around and introduce themselves. Then have them play 3 truths and a lie. Then they need to come up with a team name. Move into planner lesson. Do scavenger hunt with team. Show answers and add up points. Extra Time – Work on things, or read quietly.

Week 2
Day 3 - Collect internet safety permission forms. Internet Safety Presentation - All Period

Day 4 - Collect internet safety permission forms. Citizenship – Day 1. Talk about rules. Are there dumb rules? Yes, and show them the website: [] to prove it, but then discuss what life would be like without rules. Have your mentors do a skit to prove this point. Show them the Pinocchio film and introduce the idea that people who believe you can have no rules are dumb (animals) and need to change their ways. Have the student’s share what school and life would be like without rules. Show video about road rage. Go through list of other scenarios (doctor, roads, etc.). Split into mentor/mentee groups and have them talk through why there are certain rules and Lakeridge. Have debates. **Journal Write #1: What does it mean to be a citizen? or Why do we need rules?**

Week 3
Day 5 - Citizenship Day #2 - Review discussion on rules. Work on developing 10 rules for the school. **Journal Write #2: What is my role in making this school a better place?** Based on individual rules, with groups, have them come up with a set of 10 rules per group. Discuss and share how these rules will help to improve Lakeridge. Talk about what they will try and do differently to make these rules a reality. Talk about obstacles to following these rules.

Day 6 - Citizenship Day 3. Today the class will talk about Paying it Forward. They will look at Lakeridge and find ways to pay it forward and practice them, such as cleaning up papers and trash on the floors around the school, helping someone who drops something, looking out for one another, etc. We will discuss topics such as segregation, stereotypes, tolerance, and responsibility. We will watch a couple of clips regarding these topics. I will then discuss the **Pay it Forward Paper**. They will have one week to complete this assignment. Finally, we will go over __edmodo__, and how they should use this to review and study together for the test.

**Pay it Forward Paper **

Day 7 - Citizenship Test. Students **MUST bring a book** to read today. Watch the status quo video. Do **Journal Write #3: How can I avoid falling prey to peer pressure and be true to myself?** Check up on grades and work on homework.

Week 4
Day 8 – Discuss “Pay it Forward” assignment in greater detail. Hand back citizenship tests. Watch video on validation. Discuss ways that the students can complete the assignment and paper for next time. Give them time to work in class to begin writing the paper, or brainstorming ideas of what they could do. If time allows, go around the school and find opportunities to serve. Mentors sign up for lessons for remaining term.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 9 – Responsibility - Power Point - Taught by Grace and Statler

Week 5
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 10 – Responsibility & Quiz (Minimal Day)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Responsibility Quiz <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 11 – Peer Pressure - Taught by Juan and Kevin

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> In this lesson you learned what negative peer pressure is and what are some steps you can take to refuse or turn down negative peer pressure. Learn and memorize these for the quiz: Refusal Skills.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We also watched some great videos about peer pressure: Slap Peer Pressure and Advertisement

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Finally, we did some skits to see if we could avoid falling prey to peer pressure.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 12 – Peer Pressure & Quiz

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We talked about crabs and crab pots. The students worked on discussing more ways that they can avoid peer pressure and how they can not follow the crowd. Then we played a game called "Snake" to help understand how peer pressure works in practice.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Peer Pressure Quiz

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">**Journal Write #4: What examples of peer pressure have I or will I experience, and how did I or will I react to it or avoid it?**


 * What are the most common ways that peer pressure shows up?**

Peer pressure shows up in a variety of ways, some positive and some negative.

Some examples of positive peer pressure:

· Pressure to follow school or activity group rules.

· Pressure to respect the property of others.

· Pressure to not drink and drive.

· Pressure to join a service group.

· Pressure to get into college.

Some examples of negative peer pressure:

· Pressure to experiment with drugs or drink alcohol.

· Pressure to vandalize public or private property.

· Pressure to steal.

· Pressure to have a physical confrontation with another teen.

· Pressure to have sex before marriage.

Week 6
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 13 – Self Esteem

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Today we talked about what self-esteem is and what we can do to increase our self-esteem. We reviewed the power point that the girls put together. We wanted the students to see how great they are and how feeling good about themselves will increase their chances of being successful in school.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">**Journal Write #5: What are the advantages to having high self-esteem?**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 14 – Self Esteem & Quiz

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We started today by reading a story called the stonecutter. We discussed how great we are. The students then had to draw on a piece of white paper pictures that represented the 10 things they found great about themselves. This was turned in as an assignment.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Self-Esteem Quiz

Week 7
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 15 – Study Day

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 16 – Study Day

March

Week 8
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 17 – Negative Thoughts - Today we talked about the impact negative thoughts have on us to bring us down. This lesson was taught by all the mentors. Then we played some games and did some skits to illustrate the ideas.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 18 – Negative Thoughts This lesson was continued today by Mr. Rocque. It was well done. :) J/k. We continued to talk about the topic. We did not have a quiz on this topic.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 19 – Stress - Today the guys taught about Stress. They did great. We went over the power point and had some good debate, and again wonderful skits.

Week 9
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 20 – Stress & Quiz Today Mr. Rocque talked about other types of stress. Then we had a quiz on stress.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Stress Quiz

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 21 – Make-Up/Reading Day

Week 10
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 22 – Setting and keeping goals. Today we talked about what makes a good goal, the areas of goal setting, and we practiced setting goals. Finally, everyone made two goals for term 2. Mentors made team goals for their teams. We learned this from the power point. I have put up an additional power point that has some good information on it.

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 23– Setting and keeping goals.

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We also watched a video about Michael Phelps and setting goals. Here is the link to the video on youtube: Setting Goals

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 24 - Goals Quiz - Today we took the goals quiz and then we had some reading time, and then we worked on making up missing assignments.



END OF TERM

Week 11
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 25 –SLC

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 26 - Start Reading

April

Week 12
Day 27 - Readathon

Day 28 - Readathon

Day 29 - Readathon - Prizes

SPRING BREAK

Week 13
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 30 - Day after break, work on reviewing goals, look at grades. Work on homework.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 31 - Conflict Resolution. Today we are talking about anger and how to deal with anger correctly so it doesn't hurt us or others. We will also talk about bullying and how to avoid it. Then groups will get into groups and work on skits to show how they resolve common conflicts that might arise at school.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We will watch a video about bullying.

Week 14
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 32 – More on Conflict Resolution - We will continue to discuss anger management and bullying. We will watch a couple more videos. One called the mediators about avoiding conflict. The other from waterboys, which is also about avoiding conflict.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Study Guide for the Test next time.

Day 33 - Conflict & Anger Test

Day 34<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> - Communication

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We went over the basics of what good and poor communication is and looks like. We went through the power point. Then we played some games to practice listening skills.



<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">May

Week 15
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 35 - Communication - today we did some more listening games. It was group picture day as well.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 36 - Cinco de Mayo Tournament

Week 16
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 37 - Work Day. Time to Get Your Grades Up

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 38 - Study Skills Day. Today we learned about two important parts to having good study habits. First, the study environment. To teach this concept, students worked with their peer mentors to prepare a skit that demonstrated one of the skills to having a good study environment.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The second point was taking notes. We discussed note taking strategies, and looked at a power point.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 39 -How to Take Tests and Test Taking Strategies

Week 17
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 40 - Today we brainstormed an idea using a spider-web. We chose one of the topics from this term. Then we created a spider-web to understand how the topic is linked to other people/thoughts/ideas. The idea from this graphic organizer is to write the main idea, and then the facts or supporting ideas connected to it. We will use these later to design a presentation with power point.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 41 – Homework make-up day. Work on putting together a presentation on the topic they most used this semester.

Week 18
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Day 42 – Class projects: reflect and reteach one lesson from the year.

Day 43 - <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">PRESENTATION <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The purpose of the presentation is to have the students reconsider what they have learned this semester and reteach one of the concepts. This means that they will choose a topic, create a power point, and then present that to the class.

CRITERIA

Day 44 on<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> – Class Celebration

Week 19
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Last week of semester