# Slides 2.1: Values and What Matters to Me Slide outline for Lesson 2.1. Eleven slides. The tone is personal and quiet; this is the first day of a unit about the student, not about the kitchen. ## Slide 1: Values and What Matters to Me - Lesson 2.1: Who I Am - Unit 2: Me, My Goals, My Money - Today: find out what you care about, then check whether your week agrees Image: a plain deck of 24 small cards fanned out on a table, the top card reading "Honesty." Notes: Leave this up while students enter. Decks and sort sheets are already at every seat. Say: do not open the deck yet. ## Slide 2: Do now - Finish this sentence: The most important thing to me is ___ - Now write one thing you did this week that shows it - Two minutes, one sentence each Notes: Cold call four students for the first blank only. Write the answers in a column. Ask which ones you could buy in a store. Circle the ones you cannot buy. Those are values. ## Slide 3: What a value is - A value is something that matters to you so much that it changes what you do - A like: pizza - A goal: make the team - A value: health, family, being honest - The test: if it changes how you spend money, time, or attention, it is a value Notes: Give two of your own values, one sentence each. [Sal: your two.] Students copy the definition and the test into Part 1 of the sort sheet. ## Slide 4: The three-pile sort - Every card goes in a pile: Matters a lot, Matters some, Matters less - No card stays in your hand - No pile can be empty - No talking until the timer ends - 6 minutes Image: three index cards on a table labeled with the three pile names, a few value cards under each. Notes: The sort is about you, this year, not about whether the thing is good. Watch for the student with 20 cards in "matters a lot." Ask: if you could keep only ten, which ten? ## Slide 5: Top five - From your "Matters a lot" pile, choose five - Write them on the sort sheet, Part 2 - 90 seconds Notes: Do not let them skip to three. The cut from five to three is where the thinking happens. ## Slide 6: Top three - Cross off two - The three left are your core values - Write one sentence: one you cut, and why - Partner turn: tell your partner your top three and one you cut Notes: Two minutes for the partner turn. A student who does not want to share writes a second "why I cut it" sentence instead. ## Slide 7: Where does it show up? - Pick one of your top three - Money: I spend my money on ___ - Time: I spend my time on ___ - Friends: My friends are people who ___ - Each sentence names something you do, not something you feel Image: three columns with a coin, a clock, and two stick figures at the top. Notes: Model first with your own value. "I value health. Money: I buy running shoes before video games. Time: I run before work. Friends: I pick friends who do not make fun of that." Then they write Part 3. ## Slide 8: Values and standards - A value is what matters: health - A standard is the rule you hold yourself to because of it: I go to bed by 10 on school nights - Value: honesty. Standard: I do not lie to my mother even when I will get in trouble - Value: learning. Standard: I finish homework before I open a game - The best standards have a number or a time in them Notes: This pairing is the state's line (IGLR 2. a)). Students get "value" fast and "standard" slowly. Use the bedtime and phone examples; they already have those rules and did not call them standards. ## Slide 9: Your standard, and an honest check - My value: ___ - My standard: ___ (a rule, with a number or a time if you can) - Honesty check: did one choice this week meet that standard? Yes or no, one sentence - The honesty check stays private Notes: Two volunteers read a value and standard pair aloud. Nobody reads the honesty check. A "No" with an honest sentence is the point. ## Slide 10: Exit card - One of your top three values - One standard that goes with it - One question you still have about the difference between a value and a goal Notes: Two students read the value and standard aloud. Collect the sheets and the decks. Sort into "got it" (action plus a rule) and "needs more" (feelings only). ## Slide 11: Tomorrow - Traits, strengths, and what you are good at - Your top three values come back on day 39 for the All About Me one-pager - Optional: ask an adult at home for their top three values, and guess first Notes: One line. Leave it up while they pack. Keep the sort sheets in the FACS folder.