Schedule for PDEs

#	Due Date	Developmental Guidance	Contemporary History	AP U.S. G & P
1	8/30/13	What 3 things will you do to make this your best school year ever?	What 3 things will you do to make this your best school year ever?	What 3 things will you do to make this your best school year ever?
2	9/6/13	Complete the Multiple Intelligences worksheet, analyzing your strengths and weaknesses. How do you feel about the results?	Who would you consider to be the most important individual to live since 1896, and why are they so important?	Do you consider yourself to be Conservative or Liberal? On what bases do you make this determination?
3	9/20/13	What are your greatest talents? What “gifts” do you have that will allow you to make a significant contribution to the world?	What are your criteria for respect? What exactly must one do to earn to it? How do you know who is deserving of it?	(Having read Fulghum’s “All I Need to Know…”) What are your rules for living by? Remember Kant’s admonition that everyone should live by them.
4	10/11/13	Make a “bucket list”. Indicate which ones you could accomplish this year.	To what degree and in what areas to you “fight the food chain”? Are you willing to stand up for the weak or counteract the strong?	If you could ask a single question of a dead relative, whom would you ask and what would it be?
5	11/1/13	Using the Character Counts guidelines, which 2 areas are your strongest, and which 2 are your weakest? What is your evidence?	If you woke up tomorrow, and discovered that you had suddenly gained some new ability (talent) or personal quality (not a super power), what would you want it to be and why?	In Gil Gillenwater’s “Poverty of the Soul”, he claims that making a contribution to society gives a person a sense of purpose, which eliminates disaffection. List the things that keep you from being disaffected – things that prove your purpose.
6	11/15/13	As we approach Thanksgiving, what is it for which you are most thankful?	As we approach Thanksgiving, what is it for which you are most thankful?	As we approach Thanksgiving, what is it for which you are most thankful?
7	12/6/13	Using the Characteristics of Good Leaders, which 2 areas are your strongest and which 2 are your weakest? What is your evidence?	Whom (not in your family) do you most admire? In what ways does that person inspire you?	If you were elected to be Supreme Leader of the United States tomorrow, what would be your first act to make the country a better place and improve the lives of its people?
8	12/20/13	Imagine that for Christmas you could receive any intangible gift just personally for you. What would it be?	Imagine that for Christmas you could receive any intangible gift just personally for you. What would it be?	Imagine that for Christmas you could receive any intangible gift just personally for you. What would it be?
9	1/24/14	Given the choice of one living and one dead person, whom would you most like to have as your dinner guests? Why?	Something someone said to you that hurt much more than you let on. Something you said that you knew instantly you should not have.	If you could go back to any age and restart your life-path, what age would that be, and what would you do differently?
10	2/7/14	Would you rather be the member of a world championship team or the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose, and why?	Your house is on fire. After saving all the living creatures, you have just enough time to go back for one item – what would that item be?	If you could take back one lie you have told in your life, which one would it be?
11	2/21/14	Would you accept a guaranteed, lifetime allowance of $50,000 per year if accepting means that you could never again earn any money from either work or investments?	Tell me about an action you took that yielded the opposite response from what you expected – either you got unexpected positive feedback, or surprise negative.	Will the world be a better or worse place in 60 years, and in what ways?
12	3/7/14	If you were only able to see one movie for the rest of your life, what would it be? If you were only allowed to listen to one band forever, who would it be?	Have you chosen the right friends? Do you have only those who tell you what you want to hear, or are you lucky enough to have one who tells you what you need to hear?	In the movie “Big Fish”, the narrator says, “The truth is, I didn’t see anything of myself in my father, and I don’t think he saw anything of himself in me.” Both children and parents often see the disconnect, but not the commonalities. What are yours?
13	4/4/14	If you had to lose one of your five senses, which one would you give up?	Tell me about a time you held fast to your principle despite the consequences you would have to face.	If you could “un-invent” one thing in the world, so that it would no longer exist, what would it be?
14	4/16/14	If you won $300 million in the lottery, what would you do with all that money?	Tell me about a time when you followed along with someone, even though you knew you were doing wrong. Why did you do it?	Imagine that your grandchildren are reading about you in a History book. Write the passage that they would see there.
15	5/2/14	If you could coach any current professional sports team or athlete, which one would you choose?	If you could change one incident in US History, so as to expunge it from our records, what would you do away with?	As you prepare to leave PHS, what would you like to imagine as your “legacy” to the school and its students?
16	5/16 (Sr.) or 5/23/14	Revisit your plan for the school year. In what areas did you succeed, and where did you fail?	Revisit your plan for the school year. In what areas did you succeed, and where did you fail?	Revisit your plan for the school year. In what areas did you succeed, and where did you fail?

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