Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Check-In 

Happy Tuesday the 13th of October!

October 19th is the last day to register to vote, so if you want to vote, make sure you’re registered before then! You can check your voter registration status and register to vote online.

High Priority Vocabulary 

Objective: Understand, read, and use six different common words: this, what, said, did, see, come. 

Look at * “Sports Stories.” You should have received a printed copy of this. This worksheet includes six micro-stories. (Do you know what “micro” means? What are some other words or phrases that include “micro”?) 

Presenters: Prompt participants to read and complete the worksheet on their own if they are able. Otherwise, read the first micro-story together (“A Race”) and then use the annotate tool to circle the word “this.” Then, give participants a couple minutes to complete the worksheet on their own. 

Once everyone has completed the worksheet, share your screen and ask for volunteers to read each story. Ask participants to use the annotate feature to circle the given word. 

After you’ve completed the worksheet, try to write your own micro-stories and then share them with your group. Bonus points if you can use one of the six given words in your story: this, what, said, did, see, come. 

Show & Share

If you could vote to improve one thing in your community, what would it be?

Tomorrow’s show and share: Pick anyone in the world to be your running mate for the presidency. Who would you pick? Why?

Body Break

You know what to do: take a screen break, move around, and drink some water! 

Life Skills Story: Job Shopping

Objective: Understand the life skills story for the week. (Reading comprehension)  

Presenters: If you didn’t read the whole story on Monday, finish reading it today. If you did finish it, prompt participants to recap the story’s main ideas before you do the quiz.  

Here are some questions that you may want to ask: Where do Hannah and Todd go? How is Todd acting silly? Where does Todd interview for a job? 

Take the * Story Quiz for this week’s story. You should have received a printed copy of the quiz.  

After you finish the quiz, check your answers. The quiz answers are listed at the bottom of this page. 

Body Break

You know what to do: take a screen break, move around, and drink some water! 

Thematic Connection: Exploring Situation-Appropriate Behavior

Objective: Categorize different types of behaviors as professional, silly, rude, private, respectful, etc. 

Last Tuesday, we practiced differentiating spaces, both real world and virtual. What is considered appropriate varies in different contexts. For example, we act differently at work and at home, and this carries over to our digital and virtual lives as well. When we attend online programming, we act differently than when we are on the phone with just one other friend. What is something you remember from our discussion last Tuesday? 

Today, we will stick with this theme and explore situation-appropriate behavior in more detail. In order to do this, let‘s first talk about different types or categories of speech and actions.  

Presenters: Open this slide show and share your screen: Categorizing Types of Speech and Actions. Use the slide show to help participants list examples of different types of behavior. You can also talk about when those types of behaviors would be appropriate. For example, after participants list silly behaviors, you can ask when it would be appropriate to be silly (or when it wouldn’t). 

After you’ve talked about different types of behavior, let’s practice categorizing different actions. How would you categorize the actions listed below? There are probably a few different ways to categorize each action!

• Running and screaming because you think it’s fun 
• Reading 
• Watching a movie with your friends 
• Doing your job really well and staying on-task 
• Talking in a fake accent

When would it be appropriate to do those things? When would it not? 

In our Life Skills Story for this week, Todd talks in rhyme. Why does Hannah think that’s silly? If someone was talking in rhyme, would you take them seriously? When might it be appropriate to talk in rhyme? 

What did we learn today? 

Story Quiz Answers

1. C: He talked in rhymes. 
2. B: They were brother and sister. 
3. C: get a job 
4. A: contacts 
5. C: image 
6. A: water 
7. C: Why didn’t you tell any rhymes? 
8. A: at a friend’s house 
9. C: Whether you are sitting or standing, your back should be straight. 

Well Being & Social Connection

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

PRESENTERS: an * (asterisk) will mean that link goes to a file that people should also have had delivered in their packets. Different programs and districts may make different decisions about what to send. You can lead the group through the online objects and have them follow along on paper at home as appropriate. 

Check-In with everyone

Voter Advocacy Decision

PRESENTERS: discuss with your group if they want to explore more about the election or the vote. If your group is into it, go through this web page together:

Here is a link to a resource for California voters with disabilities. 

You can also paste it in the chat for those attendees/families who would like to go to the website themselves.

Heart Health-Find Your Pulse

PRESENTERS: Use finding our pulse to introduce the topic of heart health. 

This wiki how page  is good or just show your group the ways to feel pulse. 

Trivia about the Human Heart 

Vocabulary-Today is Wellness Vocab

Are any of these words new to our group? We'll be using them today.  

1. Blood Pressure: pressure blood puts on your arteries as it moves around your body
2. High Blood Pressure: when the pressure against your arteries is too high
3. Hypertension: high blood pressure
4. Symptoms: measurable things we experience that tell us something in our body is not working right
5. Risk Factors: things we do or have in our environment that make it more likely we might get sick
6. Heredity: things we inherit from our parents and their parents
7. Sedentary: spending most of your time physically still, sitting, or lying down instead of moving your body
8. Lifestyle: ways we eat, drink, sleep, work, move, socialize, or entertain ourselves and the places and conditions in which we do these things
9. Veins: the part of your blood system that takes blood from the heart out to your body
10. Arteries: the part of your blood system that bring blood from the body back to your heart

Show & Share - Pick anyone in the world to be your running mate for the presidency. Who would you pick? Why?

Tomorrow's Show & Share: Proud Californians

Do you have anything to show your California resident pride? Clothing? Mementos? Photos?  Show us tomorrow.

<Body Break> 

Life Skills Stories

Discussion Questions: You Decide

PRESENTERS: Survey your group to choose 2-4 areas for life skills practice they would like to explore on Friday. Help them connect these topics to the story. (!)The Discussion questions for this week's home packet were grouped into Monday, but they can be looked at today and Friday.

-optional links-

*Discussion Questions 1

*Discussion Questions 2

1. Controlling Credit Card Levels: Using a credit card to buy things instead of paying cash, or using a credit card to buy things you cannot afford.
2. Understanding Wants versus Needs: Choosing what kinds of goods and services to pay for and what to do yourself.
3. Anticipating Consequences: What could happen if you use a credit card to buy $500 worth of things you cannot afford for three months in a row?
4. Understanding Titles that Go with Names: Todd and Hannah ran into Dr. Matt Franks, Jr. What do the titles “Dr.” and “Jr.” mean? 
5. Searching for Job Options: Pretend you're at the mall looking for a job. What stores would you check into to find what sort of job?
6. Reading Job Ads: Searching online job posting and using the info to answer questions
7. Exploring Situation-Appropriate Speech/Actions: When to joke and when to be serious.
8. Interviewing for a Job: Getting an interview and setting the time.
9. Recognizing Proper Posture: Posture in meetings and interviews, online vs in person.

Wellness

Watch this animation about High Blood Pressure 

Review the  bullet points in the *handout on High Blood Pressure

We aren't sure why some people get it and others don't but we know what can increase your chances of getting the disease or making it worse. Finish these statements based on what you learned:

• Family history of high _________  ___________
• Being over_________
• Not getting enough ex______________
• Eating too much s____________
• Not being able to cope with _______ss
• Drinking more than 2  a__________ic  drinks a day

If you have been diagnosed with hypertension do all the things above AND

• Take _____________ ordered by a doctor 

<Body Break>

Heart

Check out this 3D model of a human heart!

Now look at the *drawing of the heart sent in the home packet

• Label the blue tubes ARTERIES-they bring blood IN to the heart from the body 
• Label the red tubes VEINS-they take blood OUT to the body from the heart

Sodium/Salt

Review the *chart for low-sodium options 

Now EVERYBODY, staff too, go check your kitchen and see if you have any of them in your home.

What Did We Learn Today?

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Check-In with everyone

High Priority Vocab

Use the HPV words to complete the sentences. Circle your choices. 

PRESENTERS: Remember you can zoom in by clicking on the image when the mouse is a magnifier

Voting!

WHO can Vote? Use our California voters information page here to discuss as a group.

HOW do you vote? Watch this video for information on voting in California. 

WHEN and HOW can you register from home? Here is the online voter registration form.

Presenters: Use sample or mock information to fill out the first two pages of the voter registration form. Allow participants to give examples of what required information might be. 

Show & Share 

Do you have anything to show your California resident pride? (clothing, pictures you've captured etc.)  Bring it to today's show and share.

Tomorrow's Show & Share is

What are some of your favorite TV shows where there is voting involved? (Ex. talent competitions)

<Body Break> 

Life Skills Questions/Quiz 

(ANSWERS AT BOTTOM OF PAGE)

*Life Skills Questions/Quiz Set 1

*Life Skills Questions/Quiz Set 2

Choose one of the quizzes and go over the questions. Check your answers together at the bottom.

PRESENTERS: Remember to allow enough time between a prompt and people's response. If strong readers/writers want to complete the other quiz too, show both answer sets.

<Body Break> 

What Did We Learn Today?

Quiz Answers:

Set 1

1. C
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. C

Set 2

1. B
2. D
3. D
4. B
5. A
6. D

Knowledge and Fun with Friends

Friday, October 16, 2020

PRESENTERS: an * (asterisk) will mean that link goes to a file that people should also have had delivered in their packets. 

Check-In with everyone

Voting in California

PRESENTERS: Check with your group about interest levels in learning about the people running for California state-level posts. Depending on the results, either explore this resource on the California candidates, or move on to the regularly scheduled content. 

Election 2020 Resources

PRESENTERS: Please ask people NOT to tell us who they like or or dislike or what they intend to vote. We are not here to influence one another. Help your group recognize the privacy inherent in casting a ballot and the importance letting people choose for themselves. 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! DO NOT give your opinions on ballot measures, candidates, or parties. We should not influence anyone. Our ONLY task is to point them and their support networks to resources and information, not to INTERPRET that information in any way. 

Voter Guide  PRESENTERS: Use the link to scroll to page 4 and go over the Voters Rights

**High Priority Vocabulary 

PRESENTERS: This one can be spun to a Halloween theme. 

If you like reading, fill in the page at home for yourself. If you want to work as a group, let's use the annotation tool to complete the worksheet. Now that you know the sentence, draw something that will be on the other side of the door...

Show & Share - What are some of your favorite TV shows where there is voting involved? (Ex. talent competitions)

Next Week's Show & Share: Seasons: Autumn—What's your favorite season? Who loves fall/autumn? What do you love about it?

<Body Break> 

Life Skills Stories  - (story text if needed)

Jokes are funny because they make us expect one thing, then give us something else. What is the “surprise” or switched expectation in these jokes? 

* Activity sheet

<Body Break> 

PRESENTERS: Look back at your group's decision from Wednesday and check in to see if everyone is still into their choice. If so, proceed to those topics. If not, find out what has changed, talk about how we change our minds sometimes, and choose a new topic, either from this list or something your group finds more interesting. (Try to resist the urge to give them your ideas for alternatives. Give everyone time to think so they can propose ideas independently.)

You Decided

Controlling Credit Card Levels 

Difference between using a credit card to buy things instead of paying cash and using a credit card to buy things you cannot afford.

Go around the board. What is  interest? If you have a balance you pay interest EVERY DAY! How can you avoid interest?

Understanding Wants versus Needs 

Todd’s hard drive crashed in his laptop. When he went to the mall with his sister, he bought a new hard drive. Todd knew it would take hours to install, but he knew how so he didn't pay to have it put in. Explain how Todd balanced his wants and needs.

Anticipating Consequences

Explain what could happen if, three months in a row, you use a credit card to buy about $500 worth of things you cannot afford.

Understanding Titles that Go with Names

Todd and Hannah ran into Dr. Matt Franks, Jr. What do the titles “Dr.” and “Jr.” mean? Give both the full words and their meanings.

Searching for Job Options

Virtually tour this mall. 

PRESENTERS: you can click on the double arrows on the ground to move forward and click the images of other locations on the sides to change to a different place in the mall. Click and drag to look around in 360 view.

What stores would you apply for? What kinds of jobs do you think they have?

Reading Arrows

Look at this map of a VTA route. There are dotted lines with arrows that have a number next to the arrow. What does it mean? 

Interpreting Idioms

Say Todd said to Hannah, “I wonder if I should have taken that job. I don’t know if I will like it or not.” Would it make the more sense for Hannah to respond by saying “Go fly a kite” or “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”? Explain.

Reading Job Ads

Look at these retail jobs in San Jose. Answer these questions about them:

1. What is the name of the company?
2. What is the job title?
3. What type of work is required for this job?
4. How much does the job pay?
5. How should you respond if you are interested in the job?

Exploring Situation-Appropriate Speech/Actions

Make a list of five situations where Todd’s rhyming jokes would NOT be appropriate.

Interviewing for a Job

When Todd asked about the job, Mr. Shan asked if he had time for an interview right then. Todd said he did have time and interviewed right then. Give an example of a reason why Todd might have said he could not interview right then.

Recognizing Proper Posture

People tend to look more alert and capable when they sit with good posture. Working with a partner, demonstrate good and bad sitting posture for an interview situation.

What Did We Learn Today?