Tuesday, November 11, 2014

How can I grow and use my own power to be successful? (Day 2) Daily Plans: Wednesday, 12 November

Happy Wednesday AVID Buddies!
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Homework: Revise, revise, revise!
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Big Idea: Power influences futures
Essential Question: How can I grow and use my own power to be successful?
Objectives: I can...
...see what my future budget might look like.
...determine how to delegate tasks responsibly.
...create timelines to help me hold myself accountable for completing tasks.
...reflect on my class work so far.
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1) Warm Up: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
  1. You have just received a million dollars. What will you do with it?
  2. Consider: 
    1. Necessities
    2. Things you want
    3. Places to donate to
    4. Leaving something awesome for future generations

2) Literacy Block: Determining Your Budget
  1. Work through the "Determining your Budget" assignment.
  2. Check the "Starting Salaries" page to find out your expected income. If your first choice career is not listed, choose the career closest to it.
  3. Reflect: Did you have money left over or not? What would you do differently in real life?
3) Lesson Plan: Responsibility in School
Purpose: Today we will explore responsibilities in the classroom. Keep these scenarios in mind as you work on assignments in your high school and college classes as well as clubs.
  1. Go to a station.
  2. Read the scenario.
  3. Respond to the prompts.
  4. Leave your paper at that station.
  5. Switch to another station.
  6. Repeat twice.
  7. Then, collaboratively annotate at two other stations. Do you think their list of responsibilities and their timelines are realistic? Give a plus and delta.
4) Success Workshop: Building a Semester Portfolio
  1. Over the course of the next few weeks, you will build a portfolio including the following:
    1. A sample of your best work with a reflection
    2. A sample revised work with a reflection
    3. A formal email
    4. A narrative telling why you've chosen your current career cluster of interest
    5. SMART goals for moving toward your intended career
  2. Make a folder in your AVID Google Drive folder. Call it "Your Name - Semester 1 Portfolio". 
  3. Choose a work you have done this semester that you learned a lot from and that you are proud of.
  4. Make a copy of this and move it to your portfolio folder.
  5. In a comment, explain in a point, example, and analysis sentence why you are so proud of this work and what you learned from it.
  6. Choose a work this semester that you revised to improve your grade.
  7. Make a copy of this and move it to your portfolio folder. 
  8. In a comment, explain how this revision showed the "FAIL" (First Attempt In Learning) mindset.
  9. With any remaining time, revise your Cornell notes.
    1. Revise notes with a classmate.
    2. Highlight key terms.
    3. Add HOT questions.
    4. Summarize each set of notes.
5) Exit Ticket: List three things you are grateful for.

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