Q: U.S. founding father and successful businessman Ben Franklin said "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Research has shown that getting up early makes you more conscientious and improves problem-solving, while also ensuring you get the most from every hour of the day. Some tactics that can help you consistently get up earlier are:  Organize evenings to go to bed at a reasonable hour (that includes ending use of electronics one hour before bedtime). Don't hit the snooze button.  Instead, put your alarm clock or timing device on a table across the room from where you sleep, forcing you to get up with the alarm goes off. Successful people understand that being at their best means taking care of their body, and this includes regular exercise in order to derive the following benefits:  It reduces depression  It improves energy levels and fights fatigue.  It improves immune responses and prevents disease.  It teaches discipline and dedication to goals.  If you don't have time for a dedicated workout schedule, make small changes, like taking the stairs or walking as opposed to driving to a nearby location, to contribute to a healthy lifestyle. Research shows that a foundation of emotional health is crucial to overall confidence, which is a key component of successful professional ventures. In other words: Success doesn't create happy people; happy people create success. Below are a few suggestions for how to take charge of your happiness and create success:  Commitment: In this context, commitment means an attitude of remaining involved, despite challenges and set-backs.  It means refusing to be isolated in self-doubt and, instead, using disappointments as a driving force behind current and future efforts. Control: Control means refusing to be powerless.  It means embracing tasks and the corresponding struggle, attempting to influence outcomes as opposed to simply letting outcomes happen. Challenge: Challenge reflects an indomitable attitude of viewing instances of stress, whether positive or negative, as fodder for learning and and evolving.
A: Get up early. Exercise. Nurture emotional and mental health.

Q: Write each vocabulary word in a sentence that gives contextual clues to the word’s meaning. Contextual clues are words and phrases around an unknown word that point to the word’s meaning.  For example, if the vocabulary word is “succinct,” you might write, “Julia gave a succinct presentation and the meeting was over in no time.” Remember that contextual clues can be misleading. For example, the sentence “As he rushed out the door, Chris felt reluctant to meet his friend,” could imply that “reluctant” means Chris was rushing to see his friend because he was excited or rushing because he was nervous and apprehensive. Using the contextual clues you’ve provided, let your students brainstorm each word’s meaning. Letting your students brainstorm will get their mental juices flowing and they’ll be more primed to remember the meaning of the words later on. Once they’ve had a chance to think about the word on their own, you should tell them what it really means. You can read them the dictionary definition, but it’s more important to present the word in a way that your students will connect with. Use your students’ experience of the world to explain the word. For example, if the word is “hodgepodge,” pull out a plastic crate of different colored markers and “this is a hodgepodge of markers. A hodgepodge is a confusing mix of different things all thrown together.” Students learn words more quickly if they can connect them to images. Come up with different ways to represent a word using imagery.  For example, if the word is “interstellar,” talk to them about the vast space between the stars and explain, “’interstellar’ is the word for that space.” If the word is something more abstract, like “repercussions,” show them pictures of children who were sent to their rooms without supper or pictures of people in jail.
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Give your students contextual clues. Let your students guess the words’ meaning. Explain the word. Use imagery to make the word come alive.