Revised schedule -
- March 25 - Blog Comment 2 due.
- Reading Due - pages 105-148, Part 3, "How to Think"
- April 25 instead of April 6 - Meet at SLMS from 3:30 - 4:15 to discuss.
- Reading Due - pages 148-176, Part 4, "How to Succeed"
- April 29 - Blog Comment 3 due.
- Reading Due - pages 176-199, Part 5, "A Better Path"
- April 30 - Book study concludes. Be sure to do your evaluation in School Link.
Blog Comment 2 PROMPT:
- Key Quotes: “To help chronically low-performing but intelligent students, educators and parents must first recognize that character is at least as important as intellect.” “Over the past few years,” Tough writes, “it has become clear that the United States does not so much have a problem of limited and unequal college access, it has a problem of limited and unequal college completion” (150).
- Prompt: Based on the quotes above, your own reading, and your experiences, how do you define GRIT? In what ways can cognitive flexibility and cognitive self-control that Elizabeth Spiegel teaches to her students in chess be applied to other academic subject areas? What did chess teach us about life and teaching? Be sure to support your claims with evidence from your own experience and/or the reading. Do not limit yourself to the ideas I forged in these prompts. Share all that is good for the cause. Also, try to define in your own terms based on your new gleanings, "how children succeed."