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HELLO!

Presentation by:

Mrs. Maigret

Mrs. Masinda

Mrs. Phillips

Coelho Middle School-Attleboro

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Warm-Up: The Crumple Exercise

To begin:

Take a half-sheet of paper.
Write down a mistake that you have made today or this week on your piece of paper. Keep in mind, we’ll be sharing these with our classmates!
Do not put your name on your paper.
Crumple up your piece of paper.
When directed by your teacher(s), throw it into the center of the classroom-with as close as you can to the same feeling you have when you make a mistake. (frustration,anger)

Next up:

Pick up a random crumpled piece of paper from the center of the room.
Open it and look at the other person’s mistake.
Going around the room, you will read the mistakes aloud and:

Give an example of how the person could do better next time or give an example of how to turn the negative into a positive.

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What will this look like?

Mrs. Phillips picks up a paper with the following mistake on it (Remember: This is someone else’s mistake and we are being respectful when reading them aloud and offering our suggestions.)

When we had our Social Studies test, I was too busy to study because I had sports, chores and too much homework.

Mrs. Phillips offers the following suggestion: Since Mrs. Maigret and Mrs. Masinda gave a week’s notice for the test, you can arrange small chunks of time each day to study for the test.

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Suggested sentence stems

This person said their mistake was _______________ and I’ve done something similar. What I learned from my mistake was ___________________.

I noticed that this person said ____________________, I wonder if they could try _______________________ next time?

One positive thing I can learn from this mistake is __________.

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Time for a survey!

1. Circle the number for each question which best describes you.

2. Total and record your score when you have completed each of the 10 questions.

3. Using the SCORE chart, record your mindset. We will reflect on your score at the end of the lesson.

*The survey will be on paper

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What is Growth Mindset? What does it mean to be perseverant?

Let’s watch these videos to find out!

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This video is more appropriate for upper level middle school and adults

Student friendly video- appropriate for lower level middle school

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Another student friendly video on the growth mindset

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Journal Time!

Now that you’ve seen/heard a little bit about what a “Growth Mindset” is, take two minutes to write out your thoughts.

You can do that:

- on paper in your journal

- draw out what you think/feel

- use speech-to-text

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As you journal, you can use these sentence stems to help you get started. You can pick any of the four or use your own. You have two minutes to journal.

Option 1: I think Growth Mindset means ___________.

Option 2: I am confused by _________________________.

Option 3: I want to learn more about ______________.

Option 4: This video reminds me of ________________.

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IT IS HARD TO FAIL, BUT IT IS WORSE NEVER TO HAVE TRIED TO SUCCEED.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Famous Fails Activity

We are going to discover who these people are and how they overcame adversity/difficulties to succeed. You are going to have the opportunity to search for some of history’s most famous failures.

“Many of our most notable accomplishments came in the wake of equally significant failures.”

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Who messed up & what happened?!?!

A few examples from history:

Famous Person	Famous Fail(s)	How did they overcome adversity to succeed?
Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln was a disastrous failure as a soldier, businessman, and a campaign politician.	He went on to become one of the most influential presidents in U.S. history.
Elvis Presley	Elvis was fired after his first Grand Ole Opry performance, and promptly told he should just go become a truck driver.	Throughout his amazing career, Elvis helped popularize rock ‘n’ roll music in America. He also won three Grammy Awards. He has 18 number 1 singles as well as countless gold and platinum albums.
J. K. Rowling	Rowling was a struggling writer and a broke, divorced single mother who was struggling with depression.	In spite of that, the phenomenal success of her Harry Potter novels speaks for itself.

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How will you share your information on your chosen person’s Famous Fail?

Choose one of the options below or come up with your own!

Create a poster

Make a Google slide presentation

Write a poem

Make a TV or radio commercial

Write a newspaper article

Compose a rap or other song

Write a text message dialogue relevant to the topic

Create a series of Tweets relevant to the topic

Create a cereal based on the topic (cover a cereal box)

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Now it’s YOUR turn to do the research!

Choose ONE famous figure (athlete, president, writer, actor, etc.) and answer the following:

How did this person fail?
How did that person come back even stronger to accomplish their goals & dreams?

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Time to share your research!

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Did we miss any of these Famous Failures?

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Time to wrap it all up!

Let’s come back to your growth mindset survey.

Take a look at your survey score:

Do you agree with your mindset score?

Why or why not?

Do you now think that you could change your mindset?

Why or why not?

Take 5 minutes to jot down your ideas in your journal.

Then, turn to your partner and share your reflections with them.
Be ready to share out your partner discussion with the class.

Whole group discussion:

How can we take what we learned about a growth mindset to develop strategies to help us become perseverant in our daily lives?

This can be both in school and in your personal day to day lives (think about sports, extracurricular activities, family, etc.)

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