Week 16: Attitude

As we watch The Pursuit of Happyness, we see a father struggling with overwhelming obstacles over long stretches of time. What do you notice about his attitude? How important is attitude to our daily lives? How do you view your own attitude, or the attitudes of those around you?

Week 15: Supports

As we are reading in We Beat the Street, it's important to have people you can trust to guide you and support you as you face life's obstacles. Who are some people in your life that you trust to help you? How do they help you?

Week 14: Inspiration

The book we have begun, We Beat the Street, is based on overcoming obstacles and the people or events that helped them achieve their goals.

Share some people or events that have contributed to your life: helped you, taught you, led you, inspired you. You can decide how personal you want to be!

Week 13: Independent Research

Generate a list of ideas that people might want to research for their independent research papers. Keep in mind that your paper should be about three pages!

Week 12: Nonfiction Rules!

So, how are you enjoying reading nonfiction? Is it what you expected? What do you like or dislike about it?

Week 9: Winterdance Research

It's time! As you did for The Glass Castle, list some ideas related to Winterdance that you could use for a research project.

Week 7: Interactive Survey

Now that you have the Iditarod survey based on http://www.iditarod.com/, see if you can help each other fill it out. You may not copy and paste the information from the website in big chunks. Instead, see if you can communicate how to divvy up the questions, decide who will answer what, and determine how to find what is needed. Help each other navigate the site. If someone is stuck, s/he should ask for help.

Since I expect this to be more interactive with perhaps more frequent entries, you should aim for FIVE entries this week!