Explorers Partner Deadlines

Your notes in your Humanities folder on your explorer are due on Wednesday. On Thursday you will work with your partner to combine your notes and create the webpage. This should be done in class by the end of Thursday or over the weekend as homework.


Your explorers research will be marked as follows:

	4	3	2	1
Who: Fully prepares research report on the person: includes full name, brief synopsis of who the person is, includes a picture.	Includes full name, strong synopsis of who the person is, includes a picture of the person, credits sources	Includes full name, brief synopsis of who the person is, includes a picture	includes full name, includes some synopsis, includes a picture	Is missing either full name, synopsis, or picture
What: describe what he or she did or overcame to make him or her resilient	Gives a strong analysis about what aspects of the person person's life made him or her resilient. Gives excellent background information with specific facts relating to instances of resilience.	Gives a good analysis about what aspects of the person person's life made him or her resilient. Gives good background information with specific facts relating to instances of resilience.	Gives some analysis about what aspects of the person person's life made him or her resilient. Gives some background information with specific facts relating to instances of resilience.	Gives an analysis about what aspects of the person person's life made him or her resilient. Gives a little background information relating to his or her instances of resilience.
Where and when: describe when and where he or she showed this resilience	Uses dates and mentions specific places to fully and accurately describes when and where the person showed resilience.	Uses dates and mentions specific places to accurately describes when and where the person showed resilience.	Uses dates and mentions some specific places to describes when and where the person showed resilience.	Gives a date and place where the person showed resilience.
Why: Why did you chose this person? Why is this person an important example of resilience?	Shows strong reflection about the importance of the individual and his or her resilience	Shows good reflection about the importance of the individual and his or her resilience	Shows some reflection about the importance of the individual and his or her resilience	Shows limited reflection about the importance of the individual and his or her resilience with little personal connection or depth.
List the resilient attributes that apply	Clearly lists all relevant resilient attributes based on the information about the explorer	Lists several attributes with no obvious ones missing.	Lists several attributes with one or two obvious ones missing.	Lists some accurate attributes
Social and Personal Responsibility	Fully completes the required research individual doc by due date. Shares work with partner and combines findings on webpage by due date.	Completes the required research individual doc by due date. Shares work with partner and combines findings on webpage by due date.	Is one day late for one due date	Completes work but is late by two or more days total

Strength and Resilience!

As some of you may know, our next project is on strength and resilience.

Definition of “resilient”: Strong, resistant, quick to recover, spirited, determined or flexible.

What is Resilience?

• Resilience is the ability to adapt to adversity, to roll with the punches and cope with life’s misfortunes and setbacks.
• Resilience will help you survive challenges and even thrive in the midst of hardship. It can help you endure loss, chronic stress, traumatic events and other challenges both big and small.
• Resilience won’t make your problems go away, but resilience can give you the ability to see past them, find enjoyment in life and handle stress better.
• Resilience is developing “Internal Resources” (skills and coping mechanisms to improve your mental well-being) that you can draw on throughout life’s ups and downs.
• Becoming more resilient takes time, practice, experience and often guidance from others.
• Resilience doesn’t mean you ignore your feelings. When adversity strikes, you still experience anger, grief or pain, but you’re able to go on and remain generally optimistic and go on with your life.
• Being resilient also doesn’t have to mean going it alone. In fact, being able to reach out to others for support is a key component of being resilient.

As you watch the film and read the stories introducing you to this topic, please consider:

• What struck you about the stories of resilience you saw or heard about?
• What challenge did the people/person face and how did they overcome this challenge?
• How did overcoming this struggle help make the people/person stronger?
• What characteristics helped make the people/person resilient?

Much of this project has been adapted for our community from a Resilience Cafe on bie.org.