Description
This GRIT collaborative poster is triple the fun with the combination of coloring, creativity, and promoting a growth mindset during group work! The collaborative poster features three GRIT writing prompts and a blank response sheet for teachers to add their own. Students will collaborate to assemble the poster for your classroom wall, bulletin board, classroom door, hallway, lobby, or library. Great for back to school, test prep and to get your students enthusiastic to strive for their best!
The GRIT poster includes assembly instructions and helpful tips to make it even better! You will only need to print this one time per class! That’s it. The finished project is 3.3 feet high and 2.6 feet wide.
You’ll love watching your students collaborate. The activity is designed for students to communicate and work together. Encourage your students to find class members with poster pieces near their own to create their masterpiece.
Includes:
★ Explicit and complete directions from start to finish
★ An optional row of pieces in the event you have more students
★ A writing activity focusing on GRIT, inspiration, goal setting. There are 3 to pick from or use them all.
★ 8.5 x 11 coloring page
★ Pieces for your students to color and complete the writing response.
Lesson Objectives / Learning Outcomes
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Define what grit means and explain the value of developing grit.
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Identify perseverance, rigor, self-determination, gritty behaviors, and attitudes.
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Evaluate your own level of grit and identify ways you can choose to change.
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Identify character traits you want to remove, change, or strengthen to improve your success in school/academics and in life.
Writing:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.2.B
Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Speaking and Listening:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6-8.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6-8.1.B
Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Recommended supplies needed: crayons, colored pencils, scissors, tape or stapler
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