What can I do to meet my goals? Daily Plans: Friday, 7 April

Happy Friday AVID Students!
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Homework: 
-ACA Tasks: Time Management Task due to me today!
-Enjoy your spring break!!!!

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Big Idea: Structures have interrelated parts

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

Objectives: I can...

...review concepts I've learned recently via poetry writing.
...set and meet personal goals.
...plan for a purposeful career fair. 

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1) Warm Up: Poema En Dos Voces - Mystery Review Poems (15 min)

1. Get with a partner.
2. Choose 2 vocab words that go together (isosceles and scalene triangles; Buddhism and Islam; kinetic and potential energy; similes and metaphors; etc. etc.).
3. Write alternating lines that describe, without naming, your term.
4. Swap poems with another pair.
5. Read each other's poems aloud.
6. Guess what the terms are. 

2) Lesson Plan Part 1: AVID Workshop (25 min)

1. On your index card write what you will work on for 25 minutes:
1. Personal Choice Project
2. Choose your Own College Adventure - Resources here:

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!) 
3. Organizing your binder & revising your notes
2. When time is up, write what you got done and identify what your next step is.

3) Lesson Plan Part 2: Time for You Workshop (30 min)

1. Check your 4th period teacher's website or below.
1. Ms. Sawyer's Class - Work through as much of this as you can.
2. Mr. Stern's Class - Here's what's going on after spring break - get ready today so you can relax over break!
1. Monday: Age of Exploration notes from prezi
2. DUE TUESDAY: Crash Course notes due on Atlantic slave trade
3. Ms. Grello's Class - Take and finish quiz
2. Refer to your SMART goal and planner.
3. On your index card write what you will work on for 30 minutes:
1. Classwork for 4th block
2. Homework
3. AVID assignments
4. When time is up, write what you got done and identify what your next step is.

4) Exit Ticket: Career Fair Conversation (7 min)

1. Set up a note sheet with your name and period. Put "Career Fair" as the title.
2. Discuss: What was awesome about our college fair? Frustrating?
3. With this in mind, what should we do, ask, and not do at the Career Fair today? Write this in a T-chart on your paper.
4. Assignment:
1. While at stations, ask career professionals questions like the following:
1. What advice do you have for high schoolers interested in your career?
2. What is the most fulfilling and most challenging part of your career?
3. If you could do any other career what would you do instead and why?
4. Can you tell me what a day is like in your job?
5. Do you get to work with other people?
2. Between stations, jot down the career professional's name and job and 1-3 interesting facts or tips you heard.
3. At the end of the career fair, help break down tables and answer the following questions:
1. What career that you learned about today is most similar to your first choice career? What do you like about that career? What worries or concerns you about that career?
2. Share any tips for improving future college fairs.
4. Turn this paper in to me!
5. Come to my classroom at the beginning of 4th period to walk up together!