Part 1: Answer the following questions:

1. What decision can you make this year to make the school a better place?

2. Have you used any of your strategies recently for managing emotions? What happened?

3. Are you motivated to complete your SMART Goal? Why or why not?

4. How do you speak positively to yourself? How do you control your thoughts?

Part 2: Boss Battle!

Use your answers from the first question to help you with this activity. This is your last year attending Woodward Hill Elementary. You have a huge impact on younger grades, and your actions affect the entire school. Other grades will remember you even after you graduated. Think of an initiative you would like to be remembered for. Here are some examples of past grade 7 projects:

• Buddy reading with K’s

• Organic or recycling program

• School garden

• Plant a tree

• Time capsule

• Art project (mural, hand casting, tile wall)

• “What I have learned” letter

• Thank you lunch for the teachers

Write thorough answers for the following questions, and submit them to your teacher:

What would you like to be remembered for?

Create a SMART Goal for your initiative.

How will you stay motivated when your initiative is not going according to plan?

Criteria: To beat this boss, you must show the following:

• Demonstrate curiosity and open mindedness

• Learn how to make reasoned judgement after analyzing information, data and facts

• Identity solutions for personal and social problems

• Anticipate and evaluating the consequences of ones actions

• Recognizing how critical thinking skills are useful inside and outside school

• Reflect on ones own role to promote personal, fairy and community wellbeing