Unit 2: Communication & Relationships

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer
What do I need for class?⤵️
✏️ A pencil!
💻 Your Chromebook
Everything else under your desk top... please!
Procedure Reminders

- - entering the room
    bell ringer & where do you put your things?
  - worksheets: pick up & drop off?
  - what if we don't get our work done in class?
  - leaving the room?

Unit 2 Pre-Assessment
WHEN YOU ARE DONE - start your 2nd bell ringer.
UNIT 2 CLASS COMPETITION
- Forms of Communication
- Qualities of a Healthy Relationship

🔔 Bell Ringer: Come in, sit down, and put everything under your desk except for your Chromebook and a pencil.

After your pre-assessment:
Use your Scrabble tiles to create words about communication and relationships.

Essential Question: How does communication influence relationships?

Objective: Analyze how communication influences relationships.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
What do I need for class?⤵️
✏️ A pencil!
Everything else under your desktop... please!
Elements of Effective Communication
Class Connections Circle

REMINDERS:

-Ask Follow up Questions

-Recap/Summarize what the person said

-Build ideas off their thoughts

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get a worksheet from the Take One bin, please!
Put your name at the top & put everything else under your desktop.

What's this week's class task?
Start the Bell Ringer task without any reminders = 500 pts.

Essential Question: How does communication influence relationships?

Objective: Students will be able to analyze and articulate at least three key elements of effective communication (such as active listening, using I statements, and non-verbal cues) and explain how each element strengthens a relationship.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (4 minutes)
REVIEW Active Listening
- Getting to know someone
- Using "I" Statements
- Being Open & Honest

Essential Question: How does communication influence relationships?

🔔 Bell Ringer: Stand Up Hand Up with your classmates...

1 Question starter per classmate.

Can you have a 1-minute+ conversation with someone based on these questions by asking follow-up questions and building off what they said?

1. If you could learn any new skill, what would you want to learn and why?

2. What is something that always makes your day better?

3. If you could change one thing about middle school, what would you change?

4. What is something you are proud of accomplishing?

5. If you could spend a whole day doing anything you wanted, what would you do?

6. What qualities do you think make someone a good friend?

7. What is something you think every 7th grader should know or understand?

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
Basic Communication Review
Conflict Resolution Steps
What are typical social conflicts teenagers face?

What are the steps to EFFECTIVELY resolving conflict?

Essential Question: How can you realistically use these steps when you have social conflict?

Objective: Students will practice navigating social conflicts following the conflict resolution model and using interpersonal communication skills...

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get a half sheet of paper from the take one bin...
Make this an "I" statement:
You were so rude to me when you yelled at me in the middle of our soccer game in Phys Ed. Why do you hate me!?

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer
What do I need for class?
✏️ A pencil!
Everything else under your desktop... please!
Review Conflict Resolution Steps
What are typical social conflicts teenagers face?
Practice Scenarios!

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get your worksheets from last week on the back counter (3).

Put them BEHIND the colored divider paper in this order:
-Communication & Relationships
-Elements of Effective Communication
-How to Resolve Conflict

THEN complete your B.E.S.T. check-in.

Keep Your Binders at Your Seat

What's this week's class task?
Start the Bell Ringer task without any reminders = 250 pts.
Complete 'What do I need for class' without any reminders = 250 pts.

Essential Question: How can you realistically use these steps when you have social conflict?

Objective: Students will practice navigating social conflicts following the conflict resolution model and using interpersonal communication skills...

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer
What do I need for class?
✏️ A pencil!
Everything else under your desk top... please!
Two Practice Scenarios!
Please complete the full packet!

Essential Question: How can you realistically use these steps when you have social conflict?

Objective: Students will practice navigating social conflicts following the conflict resolution model and using interpersonal communication skills...

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get your packet from yesterday from the front table.
I've added the new text threads for today.
**everything but your pencil under your desktop**

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
-Analyzing Influences!
-Forms of Communication (3-2-1)
-Station 1 & 2
-Conflict Resolution Model

...then place all your things under your desk top (binders back on the shelf)

REVIEW CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- What 3 pieces are the most important?
  - Calm Down, Express Yourself & Listen, Take Responsibility
Decision Making...

How are communication & relationships related to decision-making?

Essential Question: What influences our decisions?
What should we make decisions based on?

Objective: Students will review and assess the healthiness of a decision.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get a worksheet from the take one bin and your GRADED worksheets from last week from the front table ...
THEN get your binder & complete your BEST check-in ↓

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)

What do I need for class?⤵️
... yourself!
Everything else under your desk top... please!

REVIEW Values-Based Decisions

Essential Question: What influences our decisions?
What should we make decisions based on?

Objective: Thinking about values & how one value could be pitted against another!

🔔 Bell Ringer: Let's have a chit chat

1. The "Found Money" Scenario

The Question: "You find a wallet on the school hallway floor. Inside is $50 and a student ID of someone you know is a 'bully' and has plenty of money. Do you return it with the cash, return it empty, or leave it there? Why?"

2. The "Friendship vs. Rules" Dilemma

The Question: "Your best friend tells you they cheated on the final exam to pass the class. If they get caught, they’ll be kicked off the sports team. The teacher asks the class if anyone knows anything about cheating. Do you stay silent or speak up?"

3. The "Group Project" Dilemma

The Question: "You are the leader of a group project worth 40% of your grade. One teammate has done zero work because they are dealing with a difficult situation at home. If you tell the teacher, they fail the class. If you don't tell the teacher, you have to do all their work yourself, and they get an 'A' they didn't earn. What do you do?"

4. The "Social Media Secret" (Modern Context)

The Question: "You see a post on a 'Burn Page' or anonymous gossip account that is making fun of a classmate. You know exactly who created the account—it’s your friend. The victim is crying in the bathroom. Do you report the account to the school, or do you stay out of it to protect your friend's secret?"

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
Where should all of our things be?
REVIEW Values-Based Decisions
Decision Making...

D - Define the problem

E - Explore options

C - Consider the consequences

I - Identify your values

D - Decide and act

E - Evaluate the results

Begin a mini project!

Essential Question: What influences our decisions?
What should we make decisions based on?

Objective: Use the D.E.C.I.D.E. Model to make a healthy decision.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get on your Chromebook and answer the Questions posted in Google Classroom...
THEN close your Chromebook and put it under your desk top so I know you're ready to start class.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
REVIEW Decision Making

D - Define the problem

E - Explore options

C - Consider the consequences

I - Identify your values

D - Decide and act

E - Evaluate the results

SHARE example project

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get your project from the take one bin...
THEN think of a recent decision you made that WAS NOT values-based - what were the consequences?

Essential Question: What influences our decisions?
What should we make decisions based on?

Objective: Use the D.E.C.I.D.E. Model to make a healthy decision.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
Nurturing Healthy Relationships
- Different kinds of relationships
- - - Intimate
    - Friendships
    - Aquaintances
    - Humanity
Relationship Scenarios

REVIEW

Essential Question: How can you nurture the relationships in your life?

Objective: Understand what Social Health is and how it relates to your well-being.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Turn in your decision-making project if you haven't already.
Not done? Homework or Working Lunch work (let me know which you prefer!)
Then GET YOUR BINDER & complete your B.E.S.T. check-in.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (2 minutes)
Review Social Health
Definition
Relationships...
Socially Healthy Habits
Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships
Hand Up, Stand Up, Pair Up
Scenario Work

Exit Task

Essential Question: What Makes a Relationship Healthy...

Objective: Understand how you can distinguish between healthy & unhealthy relationships in your life.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get a whiteboard, dry-erase marker, and eraser for your group from the back...
Put everything but the white board under your desk.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
What does it mean to advocate!?
...publicly recommend or support.
Advocating In Relationships
Scenario Work
BINDER ORGANIZATION (if time)

Essential Question: How do you know when it's time to leave an unhealthy relationship and move on?

Objective: Learn how to advocate for yourself in relationships and social situations.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Get a paper from the take one bin. Do not write on it.
Discuss, what should you do in an unhealthy friendship?
(I'm looking for realistic, health-focused answers)

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
What do I need for class?
💻 A Chromebook!
📒 Your Binder
Everything else under your desk top... please!
Review Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships
Relationship Media Audit...

Essential Question: What media messages are shared through relationships in the media?

Objective: Analyze a relationship in the media and identify how the media influences your social health.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Retrieve all your work from the center table...
ORGANIZE it in your binder.

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
BINDER PREP...
----> is your binder ready? Put it in the back between the ferns.
PROJECT 2: Infographic
- can be found in Google Classroom
- checklist to help you plan
Meetings with Fortier...
Done with your project?
Complete the guidance survey in your 7th-grade Google Classroom!

Essential Question: How does understanding communications and decision-making improve your relationships?

Objective: Share Important relationships information in one easy-to-access location.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Has your binder been graded?
...If not, please put it on the back counter between the ferns.
(stay on task and keep your hands to yourself)

AGENDA

What are we doing in class today? ⤵️

Bell Ringer (3 minutes)
What do I need for class?
💻 A Chromebook!
📒 Your Binder
Everything else under your desk top... please!
Unit 2 Test
DECISIONS PROJECT: Finish It?
Done with your project?
Unit Review Blooket!

Essential Question: How does understanding communications and decision-making improve your relationships?

Objective: Share Important relationships information in one easy-to-access location.

🔔 Bell Ringer: Collect your papers from this week and put them in your binder.
Keep your binder and your Chromebook out for your test...
(all other things under desk top)

AGENDA

What NEEDS to be done today ⤵️

PROJECT 2: Infographic
downloaded as a PDF and turned in via Google Classroom
Complete the guidance survey in
your 7th-grade Google Classroom!

Essential Question: How does understanding communications and decision-making improve your relationships?

Objective: Share Important relationships information in one easy-to-access location.

🔔 Bell Ringer: You need to get everything submitted today.

How To Download:
- SHARE: download as PDF
- TURN IN In Google Classroom
- Attach from Google Drive

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