Friday, May 27, 2011

Week #36 11th AVID

Target: Students will work on their public speaking skills and present their perseverance speeches. Student will also work on their Certification Presentation.

5-22-11

Guest Speaker from Seattle Art Institute

5-23-11

Tutorials

5-24-11

Presentation of Speeches

5-25-11

Tutorials

5-26-11

Finish Speeches and prepare for tutor party.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Week #35 11th AVID



Senior Boards and Last Progress Report

Target: Students will work on evaluating skills by listening to both AVID presentations on perseverance and Senior Interviews and Speeches. All AVID students need to attend Senior Boards on either May 19th or 20th, 2011.

5/16/11

Practice perseverance speeches. Students will practice their three minute perseverance speech in front of two students. Students will use the same evaluation form that is used for senior boards.

5/17/11

Tutorials

5/18/11

Present Perseverance Speeches

5/19/11 Senior Boards

Finish Forest Gump Movie and evaluate perseverance

5/20/11

No Class

Monday, May 9, 2011

Week #34 11th AVID



Target: Public Speaking and Life Lessons- Perseverance

5-9-11

Students will be working on a timed write about perseverance. The following rubric will be used to evaluate speeches on perseverance. Students will work for 100 minutes on a timed write speech that will be presented to the class on Monday May 16, 2011.

Perseverance is a steady effort to maintain a course of action, purpose, or belief, often in spite of difficulty. Write a speech for a school assembly about the meaning of perseverance as it applies to personal success. You may use the following information as well as your own experiences, observations, and/or readings.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. Source: Nelson Mandela

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. Source: Lance Armstrong

I would go and look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Source: Jacob A. Riis

Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Sometime, somewhere, somehow we shall find that which we seek. Source: Helen Keller

It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Source: Albert Einstein

If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Source: Michael Jordan

5-10-11

Tutorials

5-11-11

Finish Timed Write

5-12-11

Tutorials

5-13-11

Practice Speeches- Peer to peer practice and evaluation.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Week #33 11th AVID



Mayfest Week: Student will have the opportunity to participate in various activities during and after school to celebrate spring. These will include an after school movie, bonfire and carnival.

Monday- Pajama Day
Tuesday- Metal Maynia
Wednesday- Magic Maynia
Thursday- Professional Sports Day
Friday- Mix and Match Maynia

5-2-11

Leadership and inspiration: Forest Gump

5-3-11

Tutorials- Shortened Periods for awards assembly

5-4-11

AP Test Preparation

5-5-11

Tutorials

5-6-11

Breakfast of AP Champions