Got Senioritis? We all do.

1. Got Senioritis?We all do. Campaign Issue-Based Topic By: Carleen Newberry

2. What is Senioritis? • A crippling disease that strikes high school, college, and graduate student seniors. • A term that describes decreased motivation, towards any type of schooling during the last semester prior to graduation.

3. Methods in Teaching Around Senioritis • Many students finish graduation requirements by their junior year; therefore, teachers could use this time to administer fun activities towards college/post-high school preparation.

4. Methods in Teaching Around Senioritis • Academic activities may include: • Senior Projects, regarding what they’ve learned within their four years of high school, research papers, or oral presentations. • Dual Enrollment, offering college level courses students may choose based on their own interests.

5. Situation Analysis • Children’s Literature Course–Elective English • Allows students to read book of chose, presenting a project they’re interested in at the end of each unit. • Creative Projects include: • Brochures for Hogwarts or Diagon Alley after reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone • Class Newspapers or Board Games after reading classics such as, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Treasure Island.

6. Methods in Teaching Around Senioritis • However, if senioritis is too severe for an increased amount of academic work, life lesson activities are equally, if not more important to maintain students cognitive thinking. • These lessons include: • Fundraisers • Mission Trips (building houses). • Projects with younger generations (K-8).

7. A Cross-Age Antidote For Senioritis • The Discovery Antidote • Picture book unit regarding format, layout, art, plot, audience, language, and colors. • Students create their own picture book. • Read and teach their founded information to preschool and elementary students. • Applies to students in all writing abilities, below-average, average, advantaged. • Influences soon to be educators. • Encourages learning to be FUN!

8. Importance of Teaching towards Life Goals • Classroom is greatest impact to work with students against disengagement. • Teaches student as a whole, improving their sense of surrounding before entering the world of adulthood. • Curriculum is beginning to establish the importance of community service and service learning.

9. Teacher-Student Relationship • “I have an irrepressible impulse to indulge in my inner laziness, a disease that’s invading my collective consciousness, fighting my every will to be productive.” Nathan Garner • Teacher explained to him, he’d seen few students make it to Bowdoin College, and Nathan was by far the laziest. • Having that one-on-one resonated with Nathan, encouraging him to commit to his school work and be the person he’d always hoped of being.

10. Senioritis Symptoms • Laziness. • Lack of studying. • Repeated absences. • Dismissive attitude. • Over-excessive wearing of sweat pants and sweat shirts. • Poor hygiene. • Overly social.

11. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 1. If your morning routine looks like this:

12. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 2. If every time you receive an essay, you react like this:

13. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 3. During a test you look like this:

14. 4. At the beginning of the semester, your reaction to be bad grade looked like this: 5. Now it looks like this: 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis

15. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 6. If your weekly planner looks like this:

16. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 7. If your face looks like this every Sunday night:

17. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 8. If every time you walk into class, you say this:

18. 10. But if the bell rings, before your teacher can finish their sentence, you do this: 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 9. If the teacher keeps your 30 seconds longer, your reaction is like this:

19. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 11. If your response when the teachers asks if you did your homework is this:

20. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 12. If someone tells you, you have a test today your reaction is this:

21. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 13. If the answers to your test begin to look like this:

22. 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis 14. If the teacher asks why you’re late, and your response is this:

23. 15. If your reaction to college or the real world appears like this: 16. Because your brain is currently doing this: 16 Signs Guaranteeing Senioritis

24. Then Students… • You have a serious case of Senioritis!

25. Not to Worry, there is a cure… Graduation

26. Tips to Survive until Graduation Day 1. Write Everything Down • Don’t become overwhelmed with upcoming tasks. Make a list with a deadline, and follow.

27. Tips to Survive until the Cure(Graduation) 2. Simplify • Remove tasks from your schedule. Don’t take away from studying for an exam, just step down from a leadership role, or back out of an extracurricular that’s become of less interest.

28. Tips to Survive until the Cure(Graduation) 3. Adjust Your Attitude • Following the appliance of several colleges, school interest will begin to decrease. However, keeping a positive attitude and enjoying the last months of childhood is extremely important.