Review for Test: Habit 1: Be Proactive
(Teacher Copy)
What are habits?
Answer: Habits are things that we do repeatedly, but most of the time we are hardly aware that we are
doing them. Habits are automatic routines of behaviors that are repeated regularly without thinking.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
1. Be Proactive: Take responsibility for your life
2. Begin with the End in Mind: Define your missions and goals in life
3. Put First things First: Prioritize, and do the most important first
4. Think Win-Win: Have an “anyone can win” attitude
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood: Listen to people
6. Synergy: Work together to achieve more
7. Sharpen the Saw: Renew yourself regularly
Proactive vs Reactive
Proactive people:
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Think before they act
Take responsibility for their choices
Make choices based on principles
“I can choose my attitude”
“I choose to be mad”
Will use their pause button
Reactive people:
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Make their choices based on feelings,
moods, emotions
“Who does he think he is anyways”
“Leave me alone”
Action – Response
What is the only thing that we can control? Answer: How we respond to what happens to us.
Circle of Control
 Your Choices
 Your Mood
 What you eat
 Your Language
 TV Watching
 Exercise
 Attitude
Circle of No Control
 Weather
 Accidents
 Birth Place
 Others’ Behaviors
 Parents
 Past Mistakes
 Partner’s Behavior
The Four Human Tools (pg. 66)
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Self-Awareness: I can stand apart from myself and observe my thoughts and actions
Imagination: I can listen to my inner voice to know right from wrong
Conscious: I can envision new possibilities
Independent Will: I have the power to choose
Just push the pause button (pg. 65)
What is the pause button? ______________________________________________________________
Where is it located? __________________________________
Why do we use it? ____________________________________
What are the four human tools that help you decide? (pg. 66)
1. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
2. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
3. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
4. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
Habit 1: Be Proactive – Vocabulary
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Proactive: ______________________________________________________________________
Responsibility: __________________________________________________________________
Mission: ______________________________________________________________________
Goals: __________________________________________________________________
Prioritize: __________________________________________________________________
What is an idiom?
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An idiom has ____ meanings, name them:
1. __________________: ______________________________________________
2. __________________: ______________________________________________
What are paradigms? ______________________________________________________________________
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Practice with idioms
Read each sentence from the novel Tears of a Tiger, underline the idiom, and write what the idiom
means on the line provided.
1.
I’d hate to be the Soc who takes a crack at him.
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2. …I’m marked lousy.
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3. Soda was keeping up a steady stream of wisecracks.
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4. I’d hate to see the day when I had to get my nerve from a can.
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5. He looked at me as if I was off my nut.
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6. You two blow at the first sign of trouble.
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7. He’s gonna be asked to start the fireworks around here.
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8. They looked like they were all cut from the same piece of cloth.
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9. I wasn’t exactly itching for someone to break the record.
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10. The Soc…was slugging the sense out of me.
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11. Tim Shepard was swearing blue and green.
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12. I sat tight as Dally roared the car down the street.(2)
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13. We all left the house at a dead run.
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14. The ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly.
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15. He landed all over that Soc.
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Review for Test: Habit 1: Be Proactive
8th Grade ELA
What are habits? ______________________________________________________________________
Name the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
1. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
2. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
3. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
4. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
5. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
6. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
7. ______________________: ____________________________________________________________
Proactive vs Reactive
Mr. Covey defines proactive people as (pg. 48): ______________________________________________
Mr. Covey defines reactive people as (pg. 48): _______________________________________________
Reactive people:
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

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Proactive people:
Think before they act
Take responsibility for their choices
Make choices based on principles
“I can choose my attitude”
“I choose to be mad”
Will use their pause button
Circle of Control
 Your Choices
 Your Mood
 What you eat
 Your Language
 TV people:
Watching
Reactive
 Exercise
 Attitude
Circle of No Control
 Weather
 Accidents
 Birth Place
 Others’ Behaviors
 Parents
 Past Mistakes
 Partner’s Behavior





Make their choices based on feelings,
moods, emotions
“Who does he think he is anyways”
“Leave me alone”
Action – Response
What is the only thing that we can control? _____________________________________________________
Just push the pause button
What is the pause button? ______________________________________________________________
Where is it located? __________________________________
Why do we use it? ____________________________________
What are the four human tools that help you decide?
1. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
2. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
3. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
4. ________________: _____________________________________________________________
Habit 1: Be Proactive – Vocabulary
1. Proactive: ______________________________________________________________________
2. Responsibility: __________________________________________________________________
3. Mission: ______________________________________________________________________
4. Goals: __________________________________________________________________
5. Prioritize: __________________________________________________________________
What are paradigms? ______________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
What is an idiom?
_________________________________________________________________________________
An idiom has ____ meanings, name them:
1. __________________: ______________________________________________
2. __________________: ______________________________________________
Practice with idioms
Read each sentence from the novel Tears of a Tiger, underline the idiom, and write what the idiom
means on the line provided.
16. I’d hate to be the Soc who takes a crack at him.
_____________________________________________________________________________
17. …I’m marked lousy.
_____________________________________________________________________________
18. Soda was keeping up a steady stream of wisecracks.
_____________________________________________________________________________
19. I’d hate to see the day when I had to get my nerve from a can.
____________________________________________________________________________
20. He looked at me as if I was off my nut.
____________________________________________________________________________
21. You two blow at the first sign of trouble.
______________________________________________________________________________
22. He’s gonna be asked to start the fireworks around here.
______________________________________________________________________________
23. They looked like they were all cut from the same piece of cloth.
______________________________________________________________________________
24. I wasn’t exactly itching for someone to break the record.
______________________________________________________________________________
25. The Soc…was slugging the sense out of me.
______________________________________________________________________________
26. Tim Shepard was swearing blue and green.
_____________________________________________________________________________
27. I sat tight as Dally roared the car down the street.(2)
______________________________________________________________________________
28. We all left the house at a dead run.
______________________________________________________________________________
29. The ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly.
_____________________________________________________________________________
30. He landed all over that Soc.
_____________________________________________________________________________