Activity: HOW MINDFUL AM 1? For each of the following situations, decide whether the person followed these guidelines for mindful speech: Is what I want to say True? Is what I want to say Helpful? Am I the best one to say it? Is it necessary to say it Now? Is it Kind to this person and others? [THINK definition from Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety by Dr. Christopher Willard] In your journal, for each number, mark V for yes, X for no, or ? if you're not sure. There could be more than one 'correct answer. The purpose of this activity is to reflect on the situations and whether vou've witnessed or experienced something similar in your own life. 1. I did really well on an exam. I said to my friends, "I got the top score. What did you get?" Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T K 2. One of my friends was bragging about getting a good score on a test, and I didn't want to tell him I failed. I said, "Congratulations!" then started talking about something else. Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T K 3. People kept telling me about this strange color Mrs. Jenkins dyed her hair. When I saw her, I didn't think it looked that bad, so I told her, "Your hair's not as weird as evervone savs it is." Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H N K 4. A woman with a big belly was about to enter the building. I told my friend, "We need to go open the door for that lady. She's pregnant. Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H N K 5. A boy told his friend to hold the door open for me because I'm pregnant. I said, "Hey, I'm not pregnant! You sayin' I'm fat?" Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H I N K 6. A boy told his friend to hold the door open for me because I'm pregnant. I said, "Thank you for holding the door, but I'm actually not pregnant." Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T H N K 7. I saw a couple of kids cheating on a test. I went up to the teacher after class and told him what I'd seen. Did I T.H.I.N.K. before I spoke? T N K 8. I saw a girl looking at her phone during a test. I went up to the teacher after class and told him she was cheating.

The Doctor doubled his old-fashioned cloak across his breast as he strode home through the darkness. He knew his fellow-creatures better than most men; knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed eyes. He was sorry he had accepted Pontellier's invitation. He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. Which statement best describes the point of view in the excerpt?
a. The third-person point of view is an omniscient observer.b. The first-person point of view is voiced by the subjective Mr. Pontellier.c. The first-person point of view is an omniscient observer.d. The third-person point of view is voiced by the objective Doctor Mandelet.

Which sentence in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich suggests that Ivan Ilyich and his wife couldn’t even agree on how to raise their children?

1. Find the mistake: The supervisor promised the assistant who had the most seniority that he would get promotion soon.a) The supervisor
b) the assistant
c) the most seniority
d) promotion soon

2. Find the mistake: When you go to the office supply store, please pick up pens, black ink cartridge, and rubber bands.
a) The office supply store
b) pens
c) black ink cartridge
d) rubber bands

3. Find the mistake: The architects are sending over floor plans that you saw at meeting you had last week in the Cantor Building.
a) The architects
b) floor plans
c) meeting
d) the Cantor Building

4. Find the mistake: Rabbit is a wonderful dish served in Italian restaurant around the corner from here
a) Rabbit is
b) wonderful dish
c) Italian restaurant
d) the corner

5. Find the mistake: Where’s report I left on the table next to the TV in the living room?
a) report
b) on the table
c) the TV
d) the living room

6. Find the mistake: Let me know if the phone rings because I am expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands.
a) the phone rings
b) the call
c) client
d) the Netherlands

7. Find the mistake: Some astronomers contend that in ancient times, the Big Horn Medicine Wheel, an arrangement of stones in Wyoming, must have serve as sighting points for observations of the sun.
a) contend
b) Wyoming
c) have serve
d) sighting

8. Find the mistake: Because doctors are treating more people for skin cancer, it is widely believed that changes in the protective layers of earth’s atmosphere must be produce harmful affects now.
a) are treating
b) believed
c) changes
d) must be produce

9. Find the mistake: Secretariat run the Kentucky Derby in 1.59 minutes, setting a record that has remained unbroken since 1973.
a) run
b) setting
c) has remained
d) since 1973

10. Find the mistake: The Food and Drug Administration, known as the FDA, makes grocers and restaurant owners pasteurized all milk before selling it.
a) known
b) makes
c) pasteurized
d) selling

11. Find the mistake: Besides his contribution to the field of science, Franklin helped the people of Philadelphia founded an insurance company, a hospital,
a public library, and a night watch, as well as a city militia
a) his
b) helped
c) founded
d) as well

12. Find the mistake: If Baby Geese are hatched in the absence of their mother, they following the first moving object they see.
a) their
b) following
c) moving
d) see

13. Find the mistake: The Rural Free Delivery Act was passed so that people on farms could have their mail deliver cheaper and faster.
A) was passed
b) could
c) their
d) deliver

What is the relationship between the two words below? light : blindinga. part to whole
b. whole to part
c. degree of intensity
d. member and class

Similes and metaphors are both considered types of

Do you think that in today's society individuals are judged by the content of their character and not by their race? Give examples to support your opinion.