BMS AVID: February 2009

February 23, 2009

Field Trips

Starting Tuesday Morning at 8:00 am...

Chaperone Sign Ups

You may pick your chaperon group, only if and when you have turned in your permission slip.

February 22, 2009

Agenda for February 23-27

Monday

Computer lab - MOT (8th)

COmputer lab- Career (7th)

Tuesday

Tutorials

Wednesday

MOT - Underground Cities (8th)

Essential 55 (7th)

Grade Check given out

Thursday

Tutorials

AVID Grade for Grade Check

Friday

Binder Check

Computer lab - MOT (8th)

Computer lab - Career (7th)

February 21, 2009

Handout from last week

"ENGAGE" - Computer Lab Research

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This Week

Mapping the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

ID cards, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Links to be used in MOT lessons.

7th Grade Field Trips

CSUSB
Tour
Periods 1 and 2
March 9th

CSUSB
Tour
Periods 3 and 7
March 11th

We will be leaving campus at 9:30 am and return to campus around 12:30 pm.
The students will go on a guided tour of the campus and will eat lunch in the college cafeteria. The students may take a sack lunch, order a sack lunch through the BMS cafeteria or take $7 to buy lunch at CSUSB.

California Science Center
Imax and Museum -CSI
April 9th
We will be leaving Campus at 8:30 am and return to campus at 5:00 pm.
The students may take a sack lunch, order a lunch through the BMS cafeteria or take money to eat in the Food Court.

February 20, 2009

8th Grade Field Trips- Reminder

Museum of Tolerance

Tour
March 5, 2009
8:30 am -4:30 pm

Students will need to take a sack lunch from home or order one through the BMS cafeteria.

University of California Riverside

Chicano Student Programs Youth Conference

April 25, 2009
8:00 am -3:30 pm

A continental breakfast will be provided, however eat breakfast or bring a snack. Lunch will be provided by UCR.

Novio Boy @ the Sturges Theatre *new*

Play by Gary Soto

April 28
9:00 am -12:00pm

We will be back on campus in time for lunch.

Original post -Click

February 14, 2009

8th Grade AVID - MOT

8th Grade AVID students, here is the link to the episode I tried to show you in class. It is a History Channel program called Cities of the Underworld.

Part one, two and three are the sections I wanted to show you in class.

February 13, 2009

Tutorial

A photo of a recent Algebra I equation in an 8th grade tutorial group.

"Emphasis on inquiry. AVID is based on inquiry, not lecture. Many activities, from Cornell note taking to tutorial groups, are built around asking questions, which forces students to clarify, analyze, and synthesize material."

"A collaborative approach. The AVID classroom is not a traditional one in which a teacher lectures to passive students. An AVID teacher is a facilitator and an advocate. But students, not teachers or tutors, are responsible for their learning. Tutors function as discussion leaders, while students challenge, help, and learn from one another."

Source: AVIDonline.org

February 1, 2009

Room 12

Our Classroom

Oh the places you will go...

Maps of the CSU and UC campuses.

Computers and College pennants

College Pennants and posters of "Technology" group work

Martin Luther King Jr. "One Pager"

Required "a-g" Courses

a History/Social Science – 2 years requiredTwo years of history/social science, including one year of world history, cultures and geography; and one year of U.S. history or one-half year of U.S. history and one-half year of civics or American government.

b English – 4 years requiredFour years of college-preparatory English that include frequent and regular writing, and reading of classic and modern literature. No more than one year of ESL-type courses can be used to meet this requirement.

c Mathematics – 3 years required, 4 years recommendedThree years of college-preparatory mathematics that include the topics covered in elementary and advanced algebra and two- and three-dimensional geometry. Approved integrated math courses may be used to fulfill part or all of this requirement, as may math courses taken in the seventh and eighth grades that your high school accepts as equivalent to its own math courses.

d Laboratory Science – 2 years required, 3 years recommendedTwo years of laboratory science providing fundamental knowledge in at least two of these three foundational subjects: biology, chemistry and physics. Advanced laboratory science classes that have biology, chemistry or physics as prerequisites and offer substantial additional material may be used to fulfill this requirement, as may the final two years of an approved three-year integrated science program that provides rigorous coverage of at least two of the three foundational subjects.

e Language Other than English – 2 years required, 3 years recommendedTwo years of the same language other than English. Courses should emphasize speaking and understanding, and include instruction in grammar, vocabulary, reading, composition and culture. Courses in languages other than English taken in the seventh and eighth grades may be used to fulfill part of this requirement if your high school accepts them as equivalent to its own courses.

f Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) – 1 year requiredA single yearlong approved arts course from a single VPA discipline: dance, drama/theater, music or visual art.

g College-Preparatory Electives – 1 year requiredOne year (two semesters), in addition to those required in "a-f" above, chosen from the following areas: visual and performing arts (non-introductory level courses), history, social science, English, advanced mathematics, laboratory science and language other than English (a third year in the language used for the "e" requirement or two years of another language).

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