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Thursday, September 19, 2013

09.19 - Leadership

We started today's class with ten minutes of reading from everyone's free choice books. At the end of the ten minutes, we used this number to calculate how many pages per week each person should be reading if they are reading for approximately two hours per week.

Next, we started a discussion around leadership by doing an activity in which one partner was tasked with getting their partner to open their closed fist (without touching or threatening them). We talked about how this was like being a leader where the leader needs to get someone to do something or to work with that person to achieve a goal.

We then did an activity in which people designed leadership flags. These flags feature two pictures, one that represents one of their strengths as a leader and another representing how they would like to grow as a leader. At the end of class, everyone shared out what they put on their flag. The template we used in class for these flags is included below.

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Homework:

Read for two hours from your free choice book.