James Madison High School 20052006

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James Madison High School2005-2006
Advisory Lessons
Based on Sean Coveys Seven Steps of Highly
Effective Teens
Seven Steps

• Developed by Norma Gimber Under the Direction of
  
• Virginia Eves, Principal, 2000-2001

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
In The Beginning

• Habits Are Easy to Form
• Habits are Hard to Break
• The following Seven Habits, if practiced, will
  lead a teen to self-fulfillment, success and
  happiness.

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The Lessons Are Structured In The Following Way

• General introduction
• Word study
• Reading
• Reflective writing
• Checking for understanding
• Discussion or written
• What does this mean to me?

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The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Teens Are

• Habit 1 Be Proactive
• Take responsibility for your life
• Habit 2 Begin With The End In Mind
• Define your mission and goals in life
• Habit 3 Put Things First
• Prioritize, and do the most important things
  first

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• Habit 4 Think Win-Win
• Have An Everyone Can-Win Attitude
• Habit 5 Seek First To Understand, Then To
  Be Understood
• Listen To People Sincerely
• Habit 6 Synergize
• Work Together To Achieve More
• Habit 7 Sharpen The Saw
• Renew Yourself Regularly

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Lesson 1
Get In The Habit

• Get control of your life
• Improve your relationships with your friends
• Make smarter decisions
• Get along with your parents
• Overcome addiction
• Define your values and what matters most to you

• Get more done in less time
• Increase your self-confidence
• Be happy
• Find balance between school, work, friends, and
  everything else

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What Is a Habit?

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• Habits Are
• Things We Do Repeatedly
• Most of the Time, We Are Hardly Aware That We
  Have Them
• Habits Have Tremendous Power Over the Individual

• Synonyms for the word habit are
• Custom- Tendency-
• Proclivity- Penchant-
• Obsession- Bent-
• Routine- Inclination-

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Lesson 2
Paradigms
And
Principles
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• Engagement
• Paradigm is the way you see something
• Your point of view, frame of reference, or belief
• We have Paradigms about ourselves, other people,
  and about life in general

• Other words for Paradigm are
• Model- Pattern-
• Criterion- Standard-
• Archetype- Prototype-
• Principle-

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• Paradigms of self- are your paradigms of yourself
  helping or hindering you?
• Paradigms of others- why should you analyze and
  be truly cognizant of your paradigms of others?
  What are the consequences of inaccurate or
  incomplete paradigms of others?
• Paradigms of life- what are paradigms of life?
• Explain why each of the following is not a valid
  life center
• Friend-centered
• Stuff-centered
• Boyfriend/girlfriend-centered
• School-centered
• Parent-centered
• Other possible centered

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Principle-Centered? The Real ThingWhat is a
Principle?

• Other words for Principle are
• Regulation-
• Canon-
• Prescript-
• Parameter-
• Rule-
• Standard-
• Yard by yard life is hard, but inch by inch,
  lifes a cinch!

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Polonius Advice to LaertiesFrom
HamletWilliam Shakespeare

• There, -My blessing with you! And these few
  precepts in thy memory see thou character. Give
  thy thoughts to tongue, nor any unproportiond
  thought his act. The friends thou hast, and their
  adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with
  hoops of steel But do not dull thy palm with
  entertainment of each new-hatched, unfledged
  comrade. Beware of entrance to a quarrel But
  being in, beard that the opposed may beware of
  thee. Give every man thine ear, but few my voice
  Take each mans censure, but reserve thy
  judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
  but not expressed in fancy rich, nor gaudy for
  the apparel oft proclaims the man. Neither a
  borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both
  itself and friend. And borrowing dulls the edge
  of husbandry. This above all to thine own self
  be true, and it must follow, as the night the
  day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Lesson 3
Personal
Bank Account
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Accountability

• Introspection (from the Latin intro-within,
  specere- to look)
• Self- Image
• Objectivity
• Generosity
• Thoughtfulness
• Kindness

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OpportunityEdward R. Sill

• This I Beheld, or Dreamed It in a Dream- There
  Spread a Cloud of Dust Along, a Plain and
  Underneath the Could, or in It, Raged a Furious
  Battle, and Men Yelled, and Swords Shocked Upon
  Swords and Shields. A Princes Banner Wavered,
  Then Staggered Backward, Hemmed by Foes.
• A Craven Hung Along the Battles Edge, and
  Thought, Had I a Sword of Keener Steel- That
  Blue Blade That the Kings Son Bears- but This
  Blunt Thing!- He Snapped and Flung It From His
  Hand. And Lowering Crept Away and Left the Field.
• Then Came the Kings Son, Wounded, Sore Bestead,
  and Weaponless, and Saw the Broken Sword,
  Hilt-buried in the Dry and Trodden Sand, and Ran
  and Snatched It, and With Battle-shout Lifted
  Afresh He Hewed His Enemy Down, and Saved a Great
  Cause That Heroic Day.

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Lesson 4
Be Proactive
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Responsibility

• Active
• Proactive
• Reactive
• Self-awareness
• Conscience
• Imagination
• Will- Power

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No Control
Control
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Role Models

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InvictusBy William Ernest Henley

• Out of the Night That Covers Me, Black As the Pit
  From Pole to Pole , I Thank Whatever Gods May Be.
  For Me Unconquerable Soul.
• In the Fell Clutch of Circumstance I Have Not
  Winced nor Cried Aloud. Under the Bludgeonings of
  Chance My Head Is Bloody, but Undowed.
• Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears Looms but
  the Horror of the Shade, and Yet the Menace of
  the Years Finds, and Shall Find Me, Unafraid.
• It Mattes Not How Straight the Gate, How Charged
  With Punishments the Scroll, I Am the Master of
  My Fate I Am the Captain of My Soul.

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Attitude

• I Am Convinced That Life Is 10 What Happens to
  Me and 90 How I React to It. And So It Is With
  You Was Are in Charge of Our Attitude!
• The Longer I Live, the More I Realize the Impact
  of Attitude on Life. Attitude, to Me, Is More
  Important That Facts. It Is More Important Than
  the Past, Than Education, Than Money, Than
  Circumstances, Than Failures, Than Success, Than
  What People Think or Say or Do. It Is More
  Important That Appearance, Giftedness or Skill.
  It Will Make or Break a Home a Company a
  Church. The Remarkable Thing Is We Have a Choice
  Everyday Regarding the Attitude We Embrace for
  That Day.
• We Cannot Change Our Past We Cannot Change the
  Fact That People Will Act in a Certain Way. We
  Cannot Change the Inevitable.
• The Only Thing We Can Do Is Play on the One
  String We Have, and That Is Our Attitude.