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title: The Power of Yet!
description: Students will explore the power of “yet” and create a “Things We Can’t Do Yet!” comic strip.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/the_power_of_yet_-001.png
---

**Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)**

**Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour**

**Topic: Fixed and Growth Mindset**

**Grade Level: 4, 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CASEL: SELF-MANAGEMENT](https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/#interactive-casel-wheel)

**Brief Description:**  Students will explore the power of “yet” and create a “Things We Can’t Do Yet!” comic.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should have an understanding of the terms **fixed** and **growth** mindset to guide their discussions.

**Hook:**

- Ask students to remember a skill they learned at a younger age and can consistently do well now, and discuss.
  
    - What did it feel like when they first tried the skill?
    - Were they frustrated? Annoyed?
- Discuss fixed and growth mindsets. When we struggle learning a skill or concept, which mindset are we more apt to feel?

**Activity:**

- Have students create a comic showing themselves attempting to master a skill or concept they haven’t learned yet. The comic should include: 
    - A caption naming or describing the skill or goal they are trying to achieve.
    - Speech bubbles that show themselves embracing "the power of yet!"
- Pair Share:
  
    - Discuss a time in school that you struggled with something.
    - Explain what the challenge was and how it felt to have that challenge.
    - How did you overcome it?
    - What were some steps that got you there? 
    - Discuss a school skill you struggle with right now.
- Discussion:
  
    - Choose volunteers to share some of their current school challenges.
    - Have them repeat what they can’t do and add “yet” to the end of it. For example, "I can’t do long division… yet! I can’t read long chapter books… yet!"
    - Explain that the skills they thought they’d never master in school and now can do weren't impossible, it just hadn’t happened "yet." Having a growth mindset means knowing and believing you will get there and it’s just not now.

**Closure:**

- Print the comics or display them in a digital gallery under the title “Things we can’t do YET*.*”
- Students can refer back to this visual to remind them that they are always making progress.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Preteach vocabulary.
- Provide sentence starters for discussion, comic creation, and reflection when necessary.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.
- Allow students to write in their home language.
- Allow students to sort scenarios or images of growth vs. fixed mindset.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display:[** Comic**](https://share.pixton.com/q5ksflh).
- Suggested Reading: 
    - [I Choose To Try Again](https://amzn.to/3vIJQ3L) by Elizabeth Estrada.
    - [Yani The Yeti](https://amzn.to/3Q2yWy0) by Katie Mense.
    - [The Magical Yet](https://amzn.to/3oVqXXv) by Angela DiTerlizzi.

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