| Caring: |
- Paying close attention.
- When you use
care in completing your assignments, you are paying attention to details. When you care about your assignment, you do your very best.
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| Cooperation: |
- The act of working together toward
a common end or purpose.
- If you are
working on a group project, it's important everyone cooperates and
does their fair share. If you don't do your fair share, then someone
else in the group has to do extra so the group gets a good grade.
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| Effort: |
- An earnest and conscientious action
intended to do or accomplish something.
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You need to put forth effort to learn. Set goals that are higher than you think
you can do and don't accept poorly done work from yourself.
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| Friendship: |
- A relationship of mutual
affection and goodwill.
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Being a friend to everyone will
give you a large circle of friends.
The more friends you have, the more you are exposed to different
opportunities.
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| Responsibility : |
-
The state or quality of being able to
handle a big task or duty.
- We need to be responsible for
our education. Our teachers are in the classroom every day
explaining material we need to learn. It is our job to
take the responsibility to listen, understand, and learn.
We have to take the responsibility of asking questions when we
don't understand.
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| Flexibility: |
- The quality of being flexible.
- Sometimes you need to be able
to change your schedule to make things easier for you to
complete assignments especially when you have a lot of
extra-curricular activities. You can't always do
everything you want to do. There are times you might have
to give up doing something fun so you can complete an assignment
or another commitment.
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| Initiative: |
- Personal capacity for thinking
up and initiating action.
- Learning isn't just about going
to school and listening to what your teacher says or what the
book says. It is about taking the initiative to listen, to
read, to persevere until you understand the material.
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| Organization: |
- The way in which something is
organized.
- It is important to be organized
to succeed in school. On our
organization page, we give some ways to be more organized
and how organization can help you do better in school.
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| Patience: |
- The ability to wait without
complaining.
- It is important to have
patience because it is important to wait when somebody is busy.
Being patient with yourself is also important because you may
not learn as fast as others, but you can still get it if you are
patient.
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| Perseverance: |
- The quality of being persistent
and persevering.
- If you persevere, you will get
all of your work done quickly. When you have a hard
assignment, you need to persevere through it to get it done. Leaving it to do another day will only make your job harder.
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Sense of Humor: |
- The act of being funny, but
make sure it is not hurting anyone's feelings.
- It's great to have a sense of
humor. Being able to laugh at yourself when you do
something stupid is better than crying over it.
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| Common Sense: |
- The ability to form opinions
which reflect practical experience.
- To make the right decisions you
need to have common sense.
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| Courage
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- A way of being brave and
conquering your fears.
- Use courage to stand up for
what you believe in. Middle school is supposed to be the
time that you become who you will be as an adult. Take
courage to stand up for the things your parents have taught you. It may not be popular at the time, but people will end up
respecting you and you will be true to yourself.
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| Curiosity
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- To have the eagerness to learn.
- Be curious about your
assignments. When you are curious, you usually want to
learn more about the subject. Learning more about the
subject helps you do better on tests.
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| Integrity
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- Wholeness completeness to
perform a work in its integrity.
- Have integrity to complete your
work by yourself. Copying from other people doesn't help
you learn the material and you aren't being honest when you hand
in someone else's work.
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| Pride
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- To show proper self-respect.
- Take pride in your schoolwork. Show that you care by doing
neat work that your teach can read. If your teacher has trouble reading your work, you might
not get as good of grade as you should. Neat work shows that you take pride in your work and
have respect your yourself.
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| Problem Solving
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- A statement of what has to be done.
- Problem solving isn't something you need just for math class.
You also need problem solving to decide what to do with a writing prompt. Problem solving can
eliminate a lot of inter-personal problems when there are conflicts between you and your friends
or classmates.
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