Habit 4 - Exit Sheet

If your class didn't get to finish the Habit 4 Exit Sheet during class time, it is assigned for homework.

1. What cool stuff have you learned in this habit?
2. Who will you share this with?
3. How can you apply this habit in your life (short term)?
4. How can you apply this habit in your life (long term)?

Vocabulary Assignments Due 11/15 & 11/16

1. Complete vocabulary list for "Bad Characters" You need every word on your list. This assignment will count for three classwork/homework grades.
2. Vocabulary crossword.

Both assignments will be checked on 11/15 or 11/16.

Habit #2 - Exit Sheet

1. What cool stuff have you learned in this habit?
2. Who will you share this with?
3. How can you apply this habit in your life (short term)?
4. How can you apply this habit in your life (long term)?

Personal Mission Statement Due 10/5 - 10/6

Refine/Write your Personal Mission Statement. There is no set format, write it however you want.

I am purposely not giving you any guidelines on this assignment. If you need some help you can try this site.

Period 2A - I'll explain it on Friday 10/1.

7 Habits Homework

Don't forget to continue studying the 7 Habits.

Evaluative Writing - Due 9/27 or 9/28

Evaluative Writing
Through the Tunnel

Copy and answer the questions in complete sentences.

1. What does Jerry risk when he devotes his whole vacation to rigorous training?
2. What does Jerry gain when he devotes his whole vacation to rigorous training?
3. What does Jerry risk when he doesn’t tell his mother what he does every day at the rocks?
4. What does Jerry gain when he doesn’t tell his mother what he does every day at the rocks?
5. What does Jerry risk when he swims through the tunnel, instead of waiting until next year?
6. What does Jerry gain when he swims through the tunnel, instead of waiting until next year?
7. What other things does Jerry risk?
8. What other things does Jerry gain?

Now write a 5 paragraph essay that answers the following question:
Do you think that Jerry’s accomplishment of swimming through the tunnel was worth the risk?

Habit #5 Exit Sheet and Homework

Questions from the Exit Sheet:
1. What cool stuff have you learned in this habit?
2. Who will you share this with?
3. How can you apply this habit in your life (short term)?
4. How can you apply this habit in your life (long term)?


Homework:
Apply Habit #5 (Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood) to your life.

Practice Genuine Listening Try it with your parents!!

Vocabulary words for "Bad Characters"

1. Ardent (88)
2. Indignation (88)
3. Vilely (88)
4. Pious (88)
5. Prim (88)
6. Irrevocable (88)
7. Slander (88)
8. Invective (88)
9. Alienated (89)
10. Glaze (89)
11. Famine (89)
12. Loathed (89)
13. Bullwhack (89)
14. Scabbards (89)
15. Chloroform (89)
16. Polecat (89)
17. Mania (89)
18. Foolhardy (90)
19. Bootlegger (90)
20. Euphemism (90)
21. Aghast (90)
22. Sanitariums (91)
23. Conspicuous (91)
24. Pasty (91)
25. Terrarium (91)
26. Contrary (91)
27. Geraniums (91)
28. Confronted (91)
29. Prodigious (92)
30. Sidelong (92)
31. Flagrance (92)
32. Consoled (92)
33. Towhead (92)
34. Parcheesi (92)
35. Bureau (93)
36. Lavender (93)
37. Gauze (93)
38. Chamois (93)
39. Linen (93)
40. Filmy (93)
41. Fascinator (93)
42. Bygone (93)
43. Mosaic (93)
44. Camisoles (93)
45. Transformation (93)
46. Racily (93)
47. Bobbed (93)
48. Cloisonné (93)
49. Flask (93)
50. Perplexed (93)
51. Parlor (93)
52. Pier glass (93)
53. Jackstones (93)
54. Ramshackle (94)
55. Pathos (94)
56. Boastfulness (94)
57. Patronized (94)
58. Dago red (94)
59. Tapioca (95)
60. Gaudy (95)
61. Cynical (95)
62. Lank (96)
63. Nits (96)
64. Amiable (96)
65. Hootnanny (96)
66. Appraising (96)
67. Alter (96)
68. Severe (96)
69. Contempt (97)
70. Agitation (97)
71. Misconduct (98)
72. Vary (98)
73. Monotony (98)
74. Aspen (98)
75. Garters (98)
76. Trolley (98)
77. Whirled (98)
78. Snappish (99)
79. Weltschmerzlich (99)
80. Proposition (100)
81. Monomania (100)
82. Conscience (100)
83. Trinket (100)
84. Sentimental (100)
85. Pinochle (101)
86. Intimidating (101)
87. Haberdashery (101)
88. Piping (101)
89. Bespoke (101)
90. Aura (101)
91. Infamous (101)
92. Ransack (101)
93. Protruded (102)
94. Hotfooted (102)
95. Pilfers (102)
96. Cross-stitch (102)
97. Runner (102)
98. Interminable (102)
99. Shaming (102)
100. Legend (102)
101. Mite (102)
102. Middy (102)
103. Abortive (103)
104. Hullabaloo (103)
105. Subsided (103)
106. Hemorrhage (103)
107. Boudoir (104)
108. Mesmerized (105)
109. Lily-livered (105)
110. Galoshes (105)
111. Waistcoat (105)
112. Appliqued (106)
113. Cowcatcher (106)
114. Stucco (106)
115. Gazebo (106)
116. Aborigines (106)
117. Insouciant (107)
118. Repository (107)
119. Unsettling (107)
120. Larceny (108)
121. Emboldened (109)
122. Swaggering (109)
123. Tinsel (109)
124. Poinsettias (109)
125. Deliberative (110)
126. Asbestos (110)
127. Floorwalker (110)
128. Harried (110)
129. Mottled (110)
130. Vexation (110)
131. Pandemonium (110)
132. Gaiety (110)
133. Baffled (110)
134. Vermilion (110)
135. Bedlam (110)
136. Giddy (110)
137. Seedy (111)
138. Mucilage (111)
139. Vaguely (111)
140. Condescending (111)
141. Accomplice (112)
142. Cornucopia (112)
143. Idiosyncrasy (112)
144. Preliminaries (112)
145. Crucial (112)
146. Astonished (113)
147. Clamor (113)
148. Crockery (113)
149. Array (113)
150. Bewilderment (113)
151. Scurvy (113)
152. Dumb (113)
153. Decamped (114)
154. Afflicted (114)
155. Fraudulent (114)
156. Curmudgeon (115)
157. Nurtured (115)
158. Prig (115)
159. Stigma (115)
160. Arose (115)
161. Hemlocks (116)
162. Grandiloquent (88)

Habit #3

Don't forget to write your "Big Rocks" in your planner.

Homework assigned 2/23/10

1. Refine/Write your Personal Mission Statement. There is no set format, write it however you want. I am purposely not giving you any guidelines on this assignment. If you need some help you can try this site.

2. Finish your story.

3. Complete the exit sheet questions for Habit #2.
Questions from the Exit Sheet:
1. What cool stuff have you learned in this habit?
2. Who will you share this with?
3. How can you apply this habit in your life (short term)?
4. How can you apply this habit in your life (long term)?

Habit #1 Homework

Practice Pause, Think, Do

When presented with a situation:
Pause - stop, don't react immediately
Think - about solutions
Do - the most proactive thing

Homework for 1/25

Answer the question, "What's a habit?"

Final Exam

The Final exam will be Friday 1/15 for A day and Tuesday 1/19 for B day.

The exam will have questions about the 7 Habits and the Directed Notes from each of the stories.

Coming soon.....Final Exam

Study the Seven Habits. You should be able to list them in order and explain what each one is all about.

You need to organize your Directed Notes. Some of the questions on the exam will be based on the directed notes from the stories we studied this semester.

I will post the date of the exam as soon as I can.