Purpose: Learning to handle failure.

Material: Make a large zero out of cardboard and color it black.

Lesson: Now and then, we receive this mark for our efforts. (Hold up the zero.) We fail a test or we strike out at a baseball game, or we miss the mark in one way or another. What should we do when we get a zero? We should ask ourselves a number of questions.

First, we should ask: "Did I do the best I could? Did I take advantage of the time I had to prepare myself as best I could; or was I lazy? To avoid zeros we need to use our time wisely. We need to prepare ourse…