CHARACTER TRAIT
WORD OF DAY:
Perseverance
PERSEVERANCE
How would you
define this trait?
PERSEVERANCE IS:
Never giving up,
no matter how hard things get.
IT TAKES PERSEVERANCE TO…
Finish
high school!
DROP OUT?
 What are the top reasons high school students drop out?
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Poor grades
Dislike school
Students don’t feel like teachers care about them
No connection between school and future success
Parents don’t stress the importance of education at home
Drug/Alcohol Abuse
Caught up in drama on the street
Teen pregnancy
Give up
No perseverance
CONSEQUENCES OF DROPPING OUT
 Earn less money
 Fewer career options
 Unemployment
 Unskilled labor job
 More likely to be on public assistance
 More likely to become a single parent
 More likely to end up in prison
(82% of prisoners are high school dropouts)*
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*US Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
BREAKDOWN OF EDUCATION LEVEL
& MEAN INCOME
S OU RC E : U S C E N S U S B U R E AU, 2 0 07
Level of Education
Mean Yearly Income
Income over 30 years
High School Dropout
$18,900
$567,000
High School Graduate
$25,900
$777,000
Associate’s Degree
$ 35,000
$1,050,000
Bachelor’s Degree
$45,100
$1,353,000
Masters Degree
$58,400
$1,752,000
Ph.D
$96,800
$2,904,000
M.D
$193,000
$5,790,000
MULTIFLOW MAP
As a class, create a multi -flow map for the cause and ef fects of
dropping out of high school.
The Effects
The Causes
Give Up
Teen
Pregnancy
Don’t see
benefits to
graduating
Drug
Addiction
Caught up in
street drama
The Event
HS
DROPOUT
Earn Less $
Fewer Career
Options
unemployment
More likely to be
on public assistance
Greater chance to
end up in prison
SENTENCE FRAMES FOR
MULTI-FLOW MAP
Ask a couple students to use the Multi-flow
map you created to complete the following
sentence frame:
If I
state cause , s t a te c a u s e
goal
,
s t a te c a u s e
which means I might
ef fect
and/or
s t a te e f f e c t
.
or
then I might state
e f f e c t , s t a te e f f e c t , s t a te
s t a te c a u s e
s t a te e f f e c t , s t a te
PERSEVERANCE VIDEO CLIP
YOU THINK YOU GOT IT TOUGH? ( 3 M I N U T E S )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNnVdlvodTQ
If he can succeed, anyone can succeed.
TO PERSEVERE MEANS…
To NEVER give up
no matter how
tough things get