Team 7a Secret Agents

GET SMART!

Training Day:

• Discoveries– Elizabeth– Sneetch– Oprah

• Student Survey• The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss and Sneetch

Speeches

Training Day:

• If you really knew me, you would know…• Sneetch Speeches – Part II• Team-building activities– Hula Hoop Game– Build a Shoe Tower– Human Knot

• Affirmation/Culmination Activities

Training Day Extras

• Team T-shirts• Pass It On• Starr Wall• Cross the Line• Mini-Biographies• Quotation Quizzlers

Making Real World Connections:

• Guest Speakers– Brittany Enterkin• Teenager that raised money and built a school in

Cambodia• Website:

http://khmernz.blogspot.com/2008/07/brittany-enterkin-reaches-out-from.html

– John Hambo• Missionary from South Africa

Making Real World Connections:

• Movies and Videos:– The Ultimate Gift– Radio– Oprah Winfrey’s School for Girls– Remember the Titans– Promises– Crisis at Central High• Movie about the Little Rock Nine

Making Real World Connections:

• Interdisciplinary Units:– Reading The 39 Clues– The Amazing Race– It’s a Bug’s Life– Reading Chain of Fire– Essay Contest Istanbul Center– Service Learning Projects

Service Learning

• Changing the World – One Agent at a Time– MDG Beginnings

• Recognize Think Change Contribute

Service Learning:• Every student participates• Students choose their own service learning project

and it is approved by teachers• Required to perform 5 hours of service• Students wrote “reflections” about their experiences

and advice to other students• The reflections were graded as a writing assignment

in language arts • They presented their project to the students which

was graded as a social studies assignment

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Self Destruct in….