Strategies for Success - 11/12/2007

Today we finished the last of the Lou videos, which took all the concepts we've been talking about all along and wrapping them up into one powerful punch: the idea of the wizards. You know, the whole Wizard of Oz thing where the "wizard" said, "Hey, smart people have degrees! You need a degree!" and wa-lah -- the scarecrow "becomes" smart. But not really, he was really smart all along, but couldn't see it, and only could see it once someone believed in him. Sometimes we are just like the scarecrow -- having all kinds of abilities to do things, but just need someone (sometimes ourselves) to tell us that yes, yes we can.

Remember that we can have both positive and negative wizards in our lives. Negative wizards are dangerous since they are EVERYWHERE and their simple statements a lot of time prohibit us from doing what we have the potential to do. Become a positive wizard!

And just because we're done with the Lou videos doesn't mean we're done with the class. Nope, we have a couple more weeks left. Here's what we have set:

11/19 (next week): JOURNALS ARE DUE!!!!! After I grade your journals, we will then work on our collages. The collages will be "What My Life Looks Like in 5 Years", and we'll have the entire rest of the class to work on these.
11/26 (two weeks): COLLAGES ARE DUE!!!!! This will be the last day of class. We will present the collages and well, that'll be all!

Homework:

• Finish up your journals
• Be thinking about collage possibilities