Week of April 20

This week the students will begin the week by demonstrating their understanding of Habit #5.  Working either alone or in a group, the students will give a performance (skit, rap, power point, etc.) demonstrating atleast one of the 5 poor listening habits and how to turn that bad habit into genuine listening.   This demonstration will wrap up Habit #5 for us.

For the remainder of the week, we will be focusing on a new story entitled, Bad Characters.  In this story, we read about two girls who become unlikely friends.  One of the girls tends to throw tantrums when things don't go her way.  She meets another girl who appears to be a "bad character" and yet who is able to entice the first girl into doing something that she would not ordinarily think to do.  We will spend the week going through our usual process of critical thinking in order to gain deeper insight into the meaning of this story.