AVID Calendar for the Month of February 2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1 (8 period day) 2 (A) 3 (B) 4 (A) Winter Court

Question of the Day • Question of the Day Assembly
• Community Service/Service • Have students research,
learning brainstorm and determine a
• Select a photograph of people service learning project to
volunteering. Complete “POSERS” participate in as a class.
strategy over the picture. Suggestions include: food or
clothing drive, cleaning up
school grounds, car wash to
raise money for a charity.
Learning Logs
• Complete learning log over
volunteering. Strategies for
Success (Unit 4) or Activity 1.1
High School Writing (Unit 1)
Community Service/Service
learning - research
• In collaborative groups, students
research types of service
projects available in your
community. Groups create flyers
or pamphlets advertising a
project (one project per group).
Groups create a short 3-5
minute presentation covering
their research.
• Review “Presentation Rubric”
• Tutorials
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
7 (B) 8 (A) 9 (B) 10 (A) 11 (B)
• Question of the Day Question of the Day Community
• Community Service/Service Collaborative Writing Service/Service
learning – Presentations • Have students work in small learning
• Groups present findings of groups to read press releases. • Conduct service
their research using Students will then work learning project
“Presentation Rubric” collaboratively to write a press (if possible) or
Activity release for the community create signs/
• Create a bulletin board of service project they conducted as posters to
projects available to students. a class (this could also be advertise project
• Tutorials published in “The Torch”) • Binder Checks
• Goal Setting
• Visualizing Your Goal Activity
Complete “Study Buddy
Contract”
• Tutorials
14 (A) 15 (B) 16 (A) 17 (B) 18 (A)
• Question of the Day Question of the Day
• Learning Styles Description of a Place
• Pair share learning logs completed (Prewriting)
last week. • Follow steps 8-14: (guided
• Students into groups by learning reflection, critique, explain
styles and have students answer assignment, model, select
questions provided in “Activities: audience, point of view, plan).
Day 2” Assign “Learning Style Activity 6.3b High School
Classroom Observation” Writing (Unit 6)
• Description of a Place • Draw the Shape Activity
(Prewriting) • Description of a Place
• Follow steps 1-7: (observe, list, (Drafting)
narrow topics, start a cluster, • Follow steps 1-3: (set the stage,
guided visualization, quickwrite). write a draft, remind). Activity
Activity 6.3 High School Writing 6.3 High School Writing (Unit
(Unit 6) 6)
• Tutorials • Tutorials
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21 22 (B) 23 (A) 24 (B) 25 (A)
Question of the Day • Question of the Day
HOLIDAY Description of a Place (Drafting) • Description of a Place
• Follow steps 4-6: (focus lesson, (Reader Response)
introduction, sentence crafting). • Follow steps 1-7: (model giving
Activity 6.3 High School Writing a response, debrief, verbal
(Unit 6) feedback). Activity 6.3 High
• Help students during the drafting School Writing (Unit 6)
process. What senses have you • Students to use “I” statements to
already used to describe your frame revision comments/
place? What is important about questions.
your place? How have you used • Tutorials
description to create a mood for
your piece?
• Drafting in Class
• Tutorials
28 (B)
• Question of the Day
• Description of a Place
(Editing)
• Follow steps 1-5: (focus
lesson, general editing,
rewrite, final proofread).
Activity 6.3 High School
Writing (Unit 6)
• Tutorials