1. What was your goal?
2. Did you meet your goal? If you had a goal of doing better on the CST, we don’t know that yet, but your last benchmark test should give you an idea of how you are doing.
3. What helped you meet your goal? Or, what kept you from meeting your goal?

• Go back to this post, and read some of the comments, review the slideshow, and the video.
• Come back here, and pick two questions to answer:
  1. Do you think that the people involved in the struggle for civil rights (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.) and the people you are reading about in the Taking a Stand unit (Gandhi) ever felt frustrated?
  2. Do you think these people had to use self-control?
  3. Do you think they might have used any of the self-control methods we talked about?
  4. Why would self-control be important for people like MLK, Rosa Parks, and Gandhi?
  5. Do you think it will help you in your struggles to use self-control?

frustration: an annoyed or impatient feeling that you get when you are prevented from doing what you want
- McMillan Dictionary

What do you feel like when you are frustrated? How does your body react? What do you usually do when you are frustrated?

Photo credit: Day 15–Frustration on flickr photosharing

Which one of this ideas will you be trying in the next month? Send me a comment.
Here is the video on the “Marshmallow Experiment” from last time:

• The Nobel Peace Prize

• The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize
  This site has a list of other sites to go to, please go to those sites.

Then write two things your learned about the Peace Prize in your reading.

I will be pulling you to the back to leave comments on this Hopes and Dreams VoiceThread, in the meantime, please do the following activities until the timer rings:

• You’re Going to College! EconEdLink – Interactive
• KnowHow2GO to College Homepage
• Presidential Campaign Ad-O-Matic

I will be pulling you to the back to share your goals, in the meantime, please do the following activities until the timer rings:

• You’re Going to College! EconEdLink – Interactive
• KnowHow2GO to College Homepage
• Presidential Campaign Ad-O-Matic

Here is a list of SMART Goals:

S              Specific : It’s not too big and not too small
Example: I will move up one test level on the state math test
Non-Example: I will do better in school

M            Measurable: I can measure whether I’ve been successful or not
Example: I will have fewer suspensions this year
Non-Example: I will get along with others

A             Attainable: Most people could do this
Example: I will pass sixth grade
Non-Example: I will take college classes in middle school

R             Realistic: I can do this
Example: I will improve my math scores
Non-Example: I will get a Ferrari

T              Timely: It can be done in a school year
Example: I will go up one test level on the state test
Non-Example: I will go to college