GRIT: TED VIDEO

What is your reaction to this video. Do you agree with the presenter or disagree? Why?

Respond to the following Quote:

“What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence.” ― Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

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Nonfiction: What is the Most Loathsome Insect?

What is the most loathsome Insect?

Lessons Worth Sharing

Everyone hates mosquitos. Besides the annoying buzzing and biting, mosquito-borne diseases like malaria kill over a million people each year (plus horses, dogs and cats). And over the past 100 million years, they've gotten good at their job -- sucking up to three times their weight in blood, totally undetected. So shouldn't we just get rid of them? Rose Eveleth shares why scientists aren't sure.

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Smile Continued

Everything is going to be ok from Kieran Donaghy

Second Video Link:  Smile Continued

Watch the video and list the positive effects that smiling has on your life based on the research presented in Ron Gutman's TED Talk.

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