7/8th Leadership (Semester Classes) 

Week 1: Intro to Class 

Week 2: All About Me Speech

Week 3: True Colors 

Week 4 & 5: Empathy

Week 6 & 7: Attitude and Respect

Week 8 & 9: Growth Mindset

Week 10: Private vs. Public Self 

Week 11: Self Advocacy 

Week 12 & 13: Charity Project 

Week 14: Strings 

Week 15 & 16:  Famous Leader Project 

With Most of these lessons we will have built in team building and other lesson related assignments that will take up some time in the semester. 

8th Grade Leadworthy

Week 1 & 2 

• Getting Acquainted 

  • Games 

  • Get to know the class

• All About Me Presentation!!!

  • I want a 6 slide slide show that tells me and the class all about you

Week 3 

• Attitude Lesson

  • Attitude and how it affects all aspects of life

  • How can your attitude help you through the year in class 

• Team Building 

  • 2 days of team building activities 

Week 4 

• Goal Setting

  • How to set attainable goals

    • Short vs. Long term goals

  • What are goals for the class 

  • What are goals for the year

  • What are your goals for high school

  • What are your goals for college/adult life

• Letters to future self

  • Writing letters to my future self. 

    • What do you think you will be doing

    • What is something you want to remind your future self of

    • What are your goals and how are you going to motivate yourself to reach those goals?

• Team Building Activities 

Week 5 

• “Self” Unit 

  • Self- Concept 

  • Self- Confidence

  • Self-Awareness

  • Self-Control 

  • Reframing 

• “Self” Speech 

  • Name 5 of your best traits 

  • What makes you confident

  • If you don’t like the person you are or are  becoming how will you “reframe” your self concept and self confidence

Week 6 

• Paracord Bracelets

Week 7 

• Self Movie 

  • Miracle Season 

Week 8 

• First Impressions 

  • Why are they important

  • What will the first impressions tell about you in something important? IE job interview, at work, around peers.

• Mock job Interviews 

  • 2 days of mock interviews where your classmates will grade you based on a rubric. 

Week 9 

• Self Motivation 

  • Motivational videos 

• Image 

  • What is image?

  • What are somethings that influence your image

  • What can you do to make sure your image is what you want it to be

• Brand Project 

  • 2 days of Building your brand presentations 

    • If you were in my class last year make sure you are picking a new brand based on your image

  • 2 days of presenting 

• Team Building Activities 

Week 10 

• Public vs Private 

• Values 

• Choices have Consequences good and bad

• Quick one day speech prep 

  • What is a principal/value I want to live by and why

Week 11 

• When the Game Stand tall (Value’s Movie)

• Manners Unit!! 

Week 12 

• Halloween Activities 

Week 13-19

• Thankful Unit 

  • Talk about why we should be thankful and how that positive attitude helps us through life 

• Christmas Activities and Movies 

Second Semester

Week 20-26

• Applications

• Resumes

• Budgeting Project

  • Balancing checkbooks

  • Planning our future finances 

  • Debit vs Credit

  • Buying a car 

  • Buying a house 

  • Student loans 

• Budgeting Games 

Week 27-30

• Group Games/ Teambuilding 

• Team Building Activities - 

  • Relay races ETC. 

• Create a class collage of pictures that represent what responsibility means to each student.  

• Create and perform a one act play based on a book character who demonstrates responsibility. 

• Leadership movie-

  • Consequences of actions

  • Adversity 

  • Essay 

Week 30-32

• Family Heritage Project 

  • Researching your family heritage

  • Making a presentation that depicts your family heritage 

    • Family pictures 

    • Where

    • What is the culture of your heritage 

    • Famous things, people, and places that represent your heritage

  • Include in presentation an interview with a family member. 

  • Presenting your presentation 

  • Food Festival

Week 33

Research Paper 

Research Project using the 7 traits of an effective leader

• Belief in the purpose.

• Taking full responsibility.

• The ability to move on and forgive.

• Humility.

• Optimistic and realistic.

• Value others' opinions, confidence in your own.

• Self-acceptance.

- General Information about a leader who you think embodies the 7 traits of an effective leader. 

- Major contributions 

- Challenges and Obstacles 

- Unique Aspects about this person 

- Geographic Region (Where is this person from and where did they make the most impact.)

Week 34

• Informational Speech 

Week 35

• Oddity Assignment 

Week 36- 40 

• Team building 

• Activities 

  • Making your own scavenger hunt

  • Lesson planning 

  • Class Talent Show!!!

These lessons are all ternately set.  

In this class we do  team building and work with different groups of people. It is my goal to have my students comfortably working with each other and different people in general to help them prepare for high school and the future. We talk about how everyone is different but when we have common goals we have to put our differences aside and build on our strengths as people to be successful.

Kids these days struggle with face to face communication and being comfortable in different social situations. We work on all different situations in class and have open communication to build the best learning environment as possible. 

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