1. Overcoming Challenges
Westport Middle School
Advisory Lesson

2. Icebreaker: Pick a Question
Get with a partner.
Take turns picking one of the following questions. Tell your partner which question you picked and answer the question.
1. If you had a time machine that would work only once, what point in the future or in history would you visit?
2. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
3. If you could talk to any one person now living, who would it be and why?
4. If you HAD to give up one of your senses (hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting) which would it be and why?
Icebreaker: Pick a Question

3. Agenda and Learning Target
LT: I can learn about overcoming challenges
Agenda:
Discuss: What are the benefits to overcoming challenges?
Audio Recording: Only a Game
Questions
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Agenda and Learning Target

4. What are the benefits to overcoming challenges?
We all have challenges in life.
What are some examples of challenges people face?
What are the benefits of overcoming those challenges?
Do you know of anyone who has overcome a big challenge?
Have you ever overcome a big challenge?
What are the benefits to overcoming challenges?

5. Listen and Answer Questions
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Ballplayer with Dyslexia Finds 'New Beginning' Chasing Baseball Dream
Listen and Answer Questions

6. How did Pat’s perspective change from the beginning to the end of the story?
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