The Agenda Safari Adventure
One of the most important things you
are going to learn this year is how to use your resources. Especially the resources the school and your
teachers provide.
Your agenda is an important resource
and is an essential tool to be a successful student. So, it is important you know what your agenda
has to offer, because it offers a lot!
1. 
Do
not look in your agenda yet. Take a moment and think what you expect to find
in your agenda?
a. Don’t
look! Now, write three ways your agenda can help
you be a better student, in your opinion:
i.
ii.
iii.
b. Discuss your ideas with the person, or
people, sitting next to you. Do they
have the same ideas? Now work with some
people[1]
and make a master list to share with the class.
2. 
Now we are going to have an Agenda
Safari Adventure. You need to
answer questions and have convincing answers!
3. The rules:
ü
You
can only use information from your group.
ü
You
need to write the answer and the reference (the page).
ü
Use
small voices. If you can’t hear the
music, you are too loud.
The Agenda Safari Adventure:
1. 
Is there a table of contents in your agenda?
If so, where?
2. On what pages can we find suggestions on
how to use your agenda?
3. What are some of the strongest muscles in
your body?
4. What is the capital of
5. Who can give detentions and how many types
of detentions are there?
6. How many parts of speech (grammar pieces)
are there in English?
7. Which is the funniest Wacky Word for you?
8. What did Steve Nash say about what
people should do?
9. How many kilometers are five miles?
10. What countries border the
11. On what pages are there calendars of the entire
month of September?
12. What do the What Matters Most
sections tell you? Find one you like and
share it with the people at your table – why do you like it?
13. Answer, What
Matters Most on the right of page 33?How long can books be taken out of the
library?
14. Where in the agenda is there a space to
record friend’s phone numbers?
15. Find the school dress code and say the
thing that will be hardest for you.
16. Where should you go if you arrive to school
before 7:40 am?
17. What very important class is not listed on the weekly pages?
18. 
What is the second point of Human Rights?
19. Where do you write your name? Have you done it?
Bonus
questions: How can Celery help you lose
weight? (LXVII)
Working
alone:
Think
of 4 good rules you have had in your classes. Why were they good?
Think
of 2 not-so-good rules you had in your classes. Tell me why.
Now work together in a group of three or
four students. First discuss your
ideas. Then, together make a master
list. You will need a leader, a
secretary to write it all down and a reporter and an organizer.
Think
of 3 good rules you have had in your classes.
Why were they good?
Think
of 2 not so good rules you had in your classes.
Tell me why.
What
are consequences for breaking rules in class?
Put them in order from not very
strict to strict.
If
you finish early, talk about – What are some good things teachers do to help
you learn?