AVID Calendar

November

 

Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

 

1/2

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and SAT words

In class:

1. Tutorial

2. Who is the audience? Writing a casual letter using colloquial language

 

HW:

1. Finish your letter

5

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and calendar

2. Turn in agenda check sheet for credit

In class:

1. Organize binder and remove excess papers/notes into folders for quarter 2

2. Quarter 1 grade check and reflection

 

HW:

1. Wake-a-thon sponsors and chaperones

2. Prepare for tutorial (10th graders - project form - PLAN practice test)

 

7

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and SAT words

 

In class:
1. Tutorial

2. Changing your audience - formal, technical business letters

 

HW:

1. Wake-a-thon sponsors and chaperones

2. Prepare for tutorial (10th graders - project form - PLAN practice test)

3. Finish your business letter in formal language

 

9

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and SAT words

In class:

1. Tutorial

2. Introduce 2007 Write-off theme:

Responsible Citizenship in a Global Economy

a. Taking Care of our Wilderness

b. Taking Care of our Wildlife

c. Taking Care of Human Heritage

3. The Great Shoe, Tool, and Utensil

 

HW:

1. Finish filling out labels for "The Great Shoe, Tool, and Utensil" activity

 

 

12

Veterans Day - no school

 

14

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and calendar

2. Turn in orange agenda check form for credit.

 

In class:

1. Tutorial

2. The Great Shoe, Tool, and Utensil Graph -- put post-it notes on white board and duplicate graph on graph paper

HW:

1. Prepare for Tutorial

2. Mandatory AVID Club meeting at lunch on Thursday November 15 -- Wake-a-thon money is due at club meeting

16

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and SAT words

 

In class:

1. Tutorial

2. Five-minute quick-write on the observations and inferences from the graphs.

3. Use the "Good Stuff?" packet to create a poster illustrating the ways that the materials we use on a daily basis might affect the environment, society, and economy. Jigsaw on poster paper and be ready to present

 

HW:

1. Get binder ready for Monday - binder check will include note-check

2. Prepare for tutorial

19

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check

2. Turn in your binder for binder check

In class:

1. Speaker - John Dinkler

2. Finish "Good Stuff" posters

 

HW:

1. None

21-23 Thanksgiving Holiday

26

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check, calendar, and record points for previous week

In class

1. Passport stamp check

2. Prepare for presentations on the "Good Stuff" -- notecards

3. Presentations on "Good Stuff"

4. Discuss Middle School visitation and select who will be working Dipin' Dots stand on Friday - volunteers to make posters for Dipin'Dots sales during FIRE

HW:

1. Prepare for tutorial

2. Notecards for "Good Stuff" presentations -- be ready to present Wednesday (you will turn-in notecards)

28

Warm-up:

1. Agenda check and glue SAT words

2. Turn in notebooks if your notebook was not done last week.

 

In class:

1. Tutorials + conferences regarding your business letters

2. "Good Stuff" Presentations

3. Brazil Video on Amazon Rainforest and write different questions for Socratic Seminar

HW:

1. No tutorials Friday - We will be getting ready for the middle school visitation instead

2. Final draft of business letters - fix all errors

30

Warm-up:

1. Turn in final draft of business letters.

In-class

1. Meet w/Mr. Dinkler's class to prepare for middle school visitation.

2. Make posters for visitation

HW:

1. Organize binder for fast binder check on Monday

After class:

Dip-n-dots Sales Day!