We began our week exploring more of our book, 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make. Specifically, we read the first 15 pages or so of the first chapter, School. The focus is on staying on the high road and seeing it through. at times you feel like you're preaching to the choir, but it's worth stressing the importance of staying in school.
The second part of the week we had two rotations. Mr. Pitts was in charge of one and I the other. When with Mr. Pitts, students took a survey and participated in a webquest type of assignment. The survey gave students their personality type and possible majors related to their type. Then they went on to find more information about majors and careers. They looked at unemployment rates and found colleges that offered their majors.
When they were with me, we worked on our social network on ning. First they wrote a blog about all of the things they've ever wanted to be when they grew up. They were required to have at least one embedded hyperlink. Then I asked them to go over to the forum section and respond to my question about their favorite part of junior year so far. If they had time, I encouraged them to respond to another forum.
Friday was our second service Friday. We returned to the same locations that we were at the Friday before. The highlight of the day for me was reading a story to one of the kindergarten classes. It was also very nice to pick up each location and be back at school in plenty of time to catch the buses. We have four service Fridays left, the second and third Fridays in October and November.
I can't wait to see what this week brings!
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