PVSA Input Instruction

Q: List 3 things you are thankful for.

• SPECIAL GUEST:  Mrs. Bark, Director Extraordinaire of Academy Community Service (Chief, Campus Volunteer Service Consultancy)

Remember to sign for your shirt after school.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Defending Skills II

Q: "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

• Good things!
• Business
• Finish Defending Skills and I and begin Defending Skills II

HW: Bring your records of Community Service for tomorrow's input to the PVSA web site

Defending Skills I

Q: “Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.” - Arnold H. Glasgow

• Humor!
• Defending Skills (Part I)

Peer Pressure (concl.)

Q: What is the difference in peer pressure and conformity?

• Conclude discussion of peer pressure
• Skits with remaining time

Saving and Budgeting

Q: What do you hold onto to enjoy at a later date?

• Budgeting (cont.)
• Saving
• (3rd Per: Begin Peer Pressure)

Budgeting

Q: Define budget.  Why is having a budget so important to individuals and families?

• Good things!
• Business
• Turn in Car Purchase assignment
• Budgets
• Saving

Car Purchase (compl.)

Q: "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." - Anonymous

• Humor!
• Turn in your Journal
• Complete car purchase exercise
• (7th Period: Presentation on Kazakhstan)

Car Purchase

Q: Do you think Americans are obsessed with automobiles?  Why or why not?

• Computer instructions
• Research on purchasing a car

HW: Journals due tomorrow!

Finances

Q: What do interpersonal skills have to do with managing money?

• Current events
• Continue discussion of credit cards (examples)
• Student self-description
• Making a car purshase

Credit

Q: What does the wise use of credit have to do with being a good leader?

• Good things!
• Business
• Debt and credit

Presentations (concl.)

Q: How could the way you handle your money show others what your principles are?

• Humor!
• Free Enterprise (Lesson 28)

Have a great Veteran's Day weekend!

Presentations (cont.)

Q: "The deterioration of of every government begins with a decay of the principles on which it was founded." - C. L. de Montesquieu

• Continue presentations on "A Principle I Will Live My Life By and Why"

Begin Presentations

Q: “Important principles may and must be inflexible.” - Abraham Lincoln.
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”- Former Senator Everett Dirksen

• Current Events
• Instructions for Speech Evaluations
• Begin Speeches

Special Presentation

Q: What is the most important life lesson you have learned so far?

• Watch Randy Pausch's presentation, "The Last Lecture"
• Using the speech handout, prepare a speech using the topic, "An Important Principle I Will Live My Life By" (:30 mins)
• Consider the principles of Professor Pausch when writing your presentation
• Remember to prepare 3 main points about your principle and two supporting point for each main point.
• Push all chairs under your table--be neat!  See you tomorrow!

Principles (cont.)

Q: What is our greatest enemy?  What is the greatest obstacle to our success?

• Good things!
• Principles exercise
• Preparing for upcoming speech: "A Principle I Want to Live My Life By and Why"
• Instructions for tomorrow

Principles

Q: What is the difference between a value, a standard, and a principle?

• Humor!
• Lesson on Principles (Lesson 26)
• Notes
• Covey discussion