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Setting Expectations Lesson PlanSetting Expectations Lesson Plan
Publisher
Overcoming Obstacles
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Social & Emotional Learning
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2021
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Setting Expectations

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This Setting Expectations lesson plan also includes:
  • Getting Started Module (.pdf)
  • Getting Started Module (.html)
  • Setting Expectations (.html)
  • Activity Sheet: Cloud Nine (.pdf)
  • Activity Sheet: Cloud Nine (Google Sheet)
  • Activity Sheet: The Maya Lin Story (.pdf)
  • Activity Sheet: The Maya Lin Story (Google Sheet)
  • Glossary: Getting Started (.pdf)
  • Glossary: Getting Started (Google Sheet)
  • Activity
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As Don Quixote asserts in the musical Man of La Mancha, it is possible to achieve your dreams. For the last lesson plan in the Getting Started Module, participants learn the importance of having dreams and setting goals that help them achieve these dreams. Scholars then engage in several activities that help them identify their dreams. Finally, they create an image of their dreams to share with their classmates.

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Concepts

social-emotional learning, career goals, academic goals, perseverance, self-awareness, self-management, Social & Emotional Learning

Instructional Ideas

  • Read with the class the story of Maya Lin and project images of the memorial
  • If pupils have visited the memorial, have them share their reactions and, or the reactions of those they observed at the monument

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires a copy of the "Cloud Nine" activity sheet for each participant
  • The fourth and final lesson in the Getting Started Module
  • Individuals are expected to create a folder for materials generated in the Overcoming Obstacles course

Pros

  • The Maya Lind story illustrates how perseverance permits individuals to overcome what appear to be insurmountable obstacles

Cons

  • None

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