What can I do to meet my goals? Daily Plans: Monday, 17 April

Happy Monday AVID Students!
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Homework: Meet goals from your project timelines and your planner.

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Big Idea: Structures have interrelated parts

Essential Questions: What can I do to meet my goals?

Objectives: I can...

...write creatively.

Awesome or weird? You decide!
Then, create the next food trend!

...predict choices you will make in college.
...create a choose your own adventure story.
...work on your Personal Choice Project.
...set a SMART goal for the week. 

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1) Warm Up: Creative Writing (10 min)

1. Option 1: Overheard at LEC - Use one of the lines below somewhere in a story.
1. "I am the mistake out of the sentence"
2. "We were in the middle of the woods. We had no cheese."
3. "Faculty cannot skateboard down the hall, but there is no rule for students."
4. "I will not prokosnate."
2. Option 2: Keep on writing/drawing! Work on a story or drawing you started earlier.
3. Option 3: Food Trendsetting or Trend Critique:
1. Look through the 2016 food trends here. 
2. Critique a trend - tell why it is ridiculous, amazing, unnecessary, absurd, or delicious. Be as descriptive as possible. You may consider doing this as a comic, advertisement, or commercial script.
3. Set a trend - describe a trend you want to see stared in 2017, or expect to see started and are excited about or appalled by. Again, be as descriptive as possible. Consider adding a sketch or recipe.  

What and where will you eat?

2) Literacy Block: Choose your Own College Adventure Writing (25 min)
*Draft due Friday, 21 April!*

1. Open your Choose your Own College Adventure.
2. Read what you wrote last time.
3. Turn and tell a neighbor what choices your reader will be faced with.
4. Keep writing!
5. Final Five Minutes:
1. List some of the choices and scenes you'll write next in a comment or in the boxes for your story so you don't forget them.
2. Add any questions, in a comment, that you want to ask me on Wednesday or Thursday.
6. Need more ideas? Resources here:



Where will you study? In your dorm...



1. College Life Scenarios - Radford University (Scroll to page 3.)
2. Common Problems College Freshmen Face
3. 25 Challenges for Students and Their Parents
4. Roommate Conflict Scenarios (Scroll to page 3.) 
5. Health Topics in Mental Health
6. Student Retention Scenarios (These are from a professor's point-of-view but may still be helpful!) 

...or in the library

3) Lesson Plan: Personal Choice Project (40 min)

1. Open your Personal Choice Project Planning document.
2. Review your timeline for this week. Update or elaborate on your timeline as needed.
3. Gather any materials you need.

1. Need materials that are at home? Make yourself a sticky note reminder to bring them tomorrow.
2. Need ideas from the internet? Add the links in today's box in the timeline.
3. Need materials from the classroom/school? Go get them!
4. Get to work! 
5. I will meet with you at some point during class today. Be ready to show me what you have accomplished or ask me any questions you have.

What will you share with us next week?

4) Exit Ticket: Start SMART (5 min)

1. Add a topic you want to review or could teach to the board. We'll use this on Wednesday.
2. Take out your planner. Add upcoming due dates, events, tests, etc. Upcoming in AVID:
1. Wednesday: TRF writing workshop and study sessions IN CLASS
2. Due Friday: Choose your Own College Adventure DRAFT
3. Next Wednesday: Be ready to plan your Personal Choice Project presentation IN CLASS
3. Set a SMART goal for this week. Ideally, write this about your Personal Choice Project.