Monday, March 30th

1. TED Talk - The gift and power of emotional courage + 5Cs

2. Introduction to emotions presentation + notes

Objective: Students will understand how our brains and bodies interpret emotions.

Monday, March 23rd - Friday, March 27th

 No school - Spring Break!

Friday, March 20th

1. Watch and discuss "Inside Out"
    ***Discussion Questions

Objective: Students will reflect on how emotions impact memory.

Thursday, March 19th

1. Watch and discuss "Inside Out"
    ***Discussion Questions

Objective: Students will reflect on how emotions impact memory.

Wednesday, March 18th

1. Journal #10 - Just Breathe

2. Take and discuss Motivated Evolutionary Thinking: Sociobiology

Objective: Students will dive deeper into what motivates them and thank someone who has.

Monday, March 16th

1. Journal #10 - Motivation
    ***Discuss the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

2. Steve Jobs' Speech
***Watch, discuss, discussion questions

3. Thank you letter - Who has motivated you the most?

4. Work on late/ missing assignments

Objective: Students will have an introduction to the psychology of motivation.

Friday, March 13th

1. Finalize Adolescent Magazine Articles and Images
    *** Final draft is due: Tonight before midnight!

Objective: Students will finalize their articles and artwork for the adolescent magazine.

Thursday, March 12th

1. Journal #9 - Empathy

2. Finalize Adolescent Magazine Articles and Images
    *** Final draft is due: Friday before midnight!

Objective: Students will finalize their articles and artwork for the adolescent magazine.

Wednesday, March 11th

1. Adolescent Magazine Articles
    ***rough draft is due: today (at the beginning of the period)!
    ***peer-edit two different articles

Objective: Students will peer-edit and give feedback to their peers about their articles and artwork.

Monday, March 9th

1. Adolescent Development - Four Corner Debate

2. Adolescent Magazine Project
    ***Work on outline/ rough draft of the article (ready for peer-edit on Wednesday)
    ***Work on original artwork

Objective: Students will use strong evidence and reasoning to defend their stance on the statements.

Friday, March 6th

1. Finalize Adolescent Development: Four-Corner Debate
    ***Prepare evidence and reasoning
    ***Four Corner Debate - Monday, March 9th

2. Adolescent Magazine Project
    ***Work on outline/ rough draft of the article (ready for peer-edit Wednesday, March 11th)
    ***Work on original artwork

Objective: Students will work on the rough draft of their adolescent magazine article.

Thursday, March 5th

1. Adolescent Development: Four-Corner Debate
    ***Prepare evidence and reasoning
    ***Four Corner Debate - Monday, March 9th

Objective: Students will use reliable sources to research and respond to the different statements.

Wednesday, March 4th

1. Adolescent Magazine Project
    ***Discuss Reference Page and in-text citations
    ***Purdue Owl
    ***Discuss layout
    ***Work on outline/ rough draft of the article
    ***Rough draft (ready to peer-edit) is due: Wednesday, March 11th at the beginning of the period.

Objective: Students will work on the rough draft of their adolescent magazine article.

Monday, March 2nd

1. "10 Facts Every Parent Should Know about Their Teen's Brain"
    ***Article and Activity

2. Complete student surveys (20 minutes)

3. Work on the Adolescent Magazine article and image

Objective: Students will gather information from reliable sources for their adolescent magazine article.