AVID+Classes

Welcome to AVID - Advancement Via Individual Determination

 * This class is a college preparedness class; where we focus on organization, time management, interviewing skills, note taking and other aspects of preparation for high school and college work. **





HOMEWORK - Binder Checks Every Friday
Thank you notes due on Tuesday for Chef Clopp Volunteer Hours Log and Report due Friday. CST testing on Tuesday and Wednesday. High School Garden/Culinary Expo on Friday - wear appropriate clothing. Anti-Hate/Anti-Bullying Video and Art Project in class. 2 Daily Impromptu speeches Monday: Last day to complete Persuasive Speeches Tuesday: Guest Speaker Wednesday: Thank you notes due Thursday: Tutorial Friday: Friday activity Read articles for Socratic circle next week Monday: Outline of Persuasive Speech due: Tuesday: Written speech - Draft 1 Wednesday: Final Draft - Speeches begin Thursday - Friday: All 3 minute speeches presented in class. Any late work due by 3/25! Still working on Public Speaking Daily Impromptu speeches Working towards 3 minute Persuasion Speeches: Persuasion speeches due April 10-12. Sign-ups in class!
 * 5/13-5/17 **
 * 5/6-5/10 **
 * 4/29-5/3 **
 * 4/15-4/19 **
 * 4/8-4/12 **
 * P1 - Story of why this is important to you
 * P2 - 3 reasons to enact this social change
 * P3 - 1 reason NOT to enact...seeing the other side of the argument
 * P4 - Summary of your position
 * P5 - Tie back to your beginning story
 * 3/25-3/29 **
 * an introductory story as to its importance to you
 * 3 points explaining why people should do what you are persuading them to do...social significance: i.e. not smoking, no tagging, anti-child labor, anti-slavery, anti-sweat shops, stop sexual abuse, stop bullying
 * 1 point that explains the opposing view
 * Summary of your idea
 * pointing back to beginning story

Last Day of Semester is minimum day: 3/29, dismissal at 1:30 Have a great Spring Break Next Week: 4/1-4/5 OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY 3/21...Minimum Day Friday 3/22, Dismissal at 1:30! Still competing for food drive this week! Volunteer Hours: How many have you completed so far??!! Working on Public Speaking Segment Bring canned food to 2nd period AVID - we are competing with other classes to raise the most amount of food for the hungry in our communities. Please help us raise needed food. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parent signature on Volunteer project due Wednesday. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Are you taking Cornell-style notes in 2 of your classes? Checking on Fridays!**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3/4-3/8 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guest Speaker on Wednesday. Thank you notes due on Thursday 5 Volunteer Hours Project discussed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2/25-3/1 Socratic Circle Response due Tuesday, 2/26 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2/18-2/22 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presidents' Week and/or Ski Week <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2/11-2/15 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mon/Tue: Viewing //"Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History"// in class. Creating Graffiti Boards in class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wed/Thurs: Socratic Circles about three articles and how to deconstruct the ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday: Add 10 vocabulary words to your game in order to play the game in class. Otherwise, we will be writing a report in class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2/4-2/8 In-class assignment: Vocabulary Word Games in groups: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1/28-2/1 1/23-1/25
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3/18-22 **
 * Daily Impromptu 2 minute speeches
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3/11-3/15 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School Wide Food Bank Contest this week!! **
 * Name of Game
 * Using construction paper, make a game board and pieces for your game
 * Create the instructions for play.
 * Be sure to include 20 vocabulary words in your game - people need to know the definitions of words to play your game!
 * Due on Thursday 2/7. We will play each others' games in class!!
 * Talking Heads poster and 1 page explanation of poster due Tuesday, 1/29.
 * Use 10 Vocabulary words in a 1 page story: funny, scary, descriptive or freaky! Underline vocabulary words. Due Thursday.
 * Quiz on Vocabulary words on Friday.
 * MLK's "I have a Dream" response on Wed 1/23
 * Work on Talking Heads posters and writing assignment: due Monday 1/28
 * **Due to Ms Ellis's illness on Friday, assignment is now due Tuesday 1/29!**
 * **Talking heads collage**: from magazines to show who you are today and who you want to be in the future.
 * 1/2 and 1/2 - cover all spaces of the drawn heads!
 * Include a 1 -1 1/2 page reflection of what the pictures mean:
 * why did you choose those pictures, what do they mean to you!!?


 * 1/14-1/18**
 * Homework for weekend, Due Wednesday 1/23:**
 * Response to Martin Luther King, Jr's "I have a dream" Speech, viewed in class.**
 * **5 figures of speech: i.e. dark of night, or other metaphors.**
 * **How does he use pitch and volume in his speech?**
 * **How does this relate to you?**
 * 1/18 IS FINAL DAY OF 1ST SEMESTER**
 * Draft of Socratic Circle Response is due Monday**
 * Final Draft is due Tuesday.**
 * Working on ME Poster in class this week.**

STAR Note-taking strategies. Monday: Complete left side of Learning Log from notes taken in class about 60 Minutes segment. Articles for homework to discuss in class. Binder check on Friday.
 * 1/7/2013-1/11/13**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 12/3** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Final draft of the First person, sensory account of Jamestown is due on Monday. Rubric below. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finishing our "Toolbox of Life-Skills" Project in class on Monday. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder check on Friday. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 11/26** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Working on a multiple-draft, first person, sensory account of Jamestown during 1607-1611. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second draft due on Thursday, 11/29. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Third draft due on 12/3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Working with new Lesson Log format for note-taking. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder check Friday. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 11/19** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday: Binder self-check forms due. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete document analysis project in class this week. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Happy Thanksgiving - Thursday and Friday <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 11/13** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 11/5**
 * 12/15-1/2/13**
 * NO HOMEWORK OVER BREAK! SEE YOU ON JANUARY 2, 2013! ENJOY YOUR FAMILY!!**
 * Due Tuesday: 9 words, 3 sentences each = 27 sentences using our vocabulary words
 * Wednesday quiz of daily words.
 * Tuesday Elections - watch news about election. Write during class Wednesday about the results and your notes.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 10/29** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 10/22** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 10/15** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 9/24** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 9/17** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 9/10** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Week of 9/3**
 * Follow up with Time Mgmt Interview Questions.
 * Imagine new engineering ideas (to Rube Goldberg something).
 * Binder Check on Friday.
 * Classwork about reading new materials, interviewing skills, thank you notes.
 * Article entitled "Ten things Middle School Students Should Know about Internet Safety." Due 10/18.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Working on Cornell Note taking skills. Summary due.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take Cornell Notes in 2 core classes every day - show work during Binder Check on Friday.
 * College project in Career Center.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder check. Components of binder: 2 1/2 inch binder, paper, dividers, pens and pencils in zipper pouch, planner
 * Conflict Management and Peer Pressure
 * Level 2-3 question from another class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Week of 8/27

 * Check PowerSchool - get sign in from office, if you are not already enrolled.
 * Tuesday night: watch 1/2 hour national or local news or Animal Planet or educational show. Take Cornell notes and create a summary to discuss in class Wednesday.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Week of 8/20
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Binder supplies <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1-2 paragraph essay describing yourself, summer activities, goals (long-term and short-term). Include whether you have internet at home. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Parent signature for syllabus