Use your agenda & Grit, work and learning from mistakes, Sugar and your brain

Learning Skills and Work Habits:

Yes, this is a very large image for an important reminder about the importance of using the agenda.  Every month, I want to check the agendas to ensure that they are being used and that all students are on top of the work they are expected and required to complete.

In order to grow and develop your skills as a student, you need to make mistakes.  In order to make mistakes, you have to try.  I know so many of you do and am very proud of that.  Work is hard...

...and sometimes you may not, yet, understand the ideas right away.  That's okay.  With some grit and hard, help from your teacher(s) and supportive friends, it is possible.  That is the power of YET.

Health/Language

I will be using an article on the brain and sugar in teens to assist you in understanding how to complete a Reading Response.  To activate some prior knowledge for the article I will share with you, here is a short video.  We will come back to it again because it is full of a lot of information: