Save+The+Last+Word+for+Me

Work with your group to complete the following:
 * 1) Review the common text, Should Students Be Paid To Do Well In School (see your handout).
 * 2) Skim through the following source for more information about this topic:
 * [|I Don't Pay My Kids for Good Grades and Neither Should You]
 * [|Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?]
 * 1) Pretend you are ninth grade students completing this activity. First, work independently to locate five places across either text where you found something interesting or that you would like to comment on. For each location, write the statement and then write your comment next to it.
 * 2) Bring your five statements and personal comments to the bigger group of 4 students. One student begins by reading one the interesting text locations with your group members (but just read the text, don't add your comment yet). Everyone returns to that text location and invite reactions from other group members about that location. When everyone has spoken, the student who identified that text location shares his/her reaction to "get the last word."
 * 3) Continue this process until everyone has shared one statement and provided the "last word" in the discussion.
 * 4) Use the wikispace below these directions to identify one key location for each group member, some notes from other group members, name who has the last word and include this person's thoughts about the text.
 * 5) Be prepared to share your reactions to this type of activity with the class.

For each cycle of the rotation, the speaker who gets the last word is responsible for jotting down the key location, brief notes about other people's reactions, and their final word about the topic. Then pass the computer to the next person.

Text Location 1: I Don't Pay My Kids... "No matter what you choose, praise your child not only for the end result of good grades, but for the hard work that went into achieving them." Other reactions: I think that this is really important because if a student is only rewarded on the end result, they are more likely to look for short cuts and/or not try at all if they believe that the end result won't be good enough. The last word (by: Steph)

Text Location 2: I Don't Pay My Kids... "Other parents prefer small tokens like special pencils or art supplies, a small toy, or a new school supply like a calculator or electric pencil sharpener." Other reactions: Why are small trinkets better than money? If the parent gets the child to set a goal (such as reaching enough money to buy a bike) this seems like a better lesson as it tells kids to have goals. The monetary amount counts as a way to show short term rewards instead of just buying a bike at the end. The last word (by: Steph)

Text Location 3: I dont pay my kids.. "Instead of seeing the value behind hard work, children go through the motions for a paycheck" Other reactions: I agree with this statement. This seems to be an increasingly growing foundation fo kids and allows for a negative/non motivational view within life. Its one reason as to why people dread work instead of appreciating it. The last word (by: Lennyn)

Text Location 4: Should kids be bribed to do well in school? "Since there have been children, there have been adults trying to get them to cooperate." Other reactions: I think this is a somewhat biased statement. In my family at least, this was not the case. Children are not asked for cooperation they demand it from the children. The last word (by: Lennyn)