BMS AVID: August 2010

August 30, 2010

College Research

Your Goals for today - August 31st, 2010

1. Please check your Zangel account for your grades. I will come around student by student to sign them if needed during class.

2. Explore your college website. Please use the entire periods to become familiar with your college website. Try to find answers to your questions while you explore. You must answer at least two questions before the bell rings at the end of class today.

3. Please explore the links before you ask any questions. The most common answer Mr. Espinoza (Mr. E) and I will have is "keep clicking", "keep looking", and even.... "did you click on that" as we point to your screen.

10 minutes into class I will have all of you stop for a moment and review the worksheet for common questions.

Friday

You will finish the worksheet during class. If you do not complete the worksheet in class it will become homework. If you do not have internet at home, please use the computer lab before school or after school tutoring in room 12 on Thursdays.

AVID Advertisement

The task: To create an AVID Advertisement. The students had to use a logo, a 7 bit phrase/motto, color, talking points and present it to the class.

One group had a "celebrity" spokesperson show up and do a little song and dance.... "and a 4 year degree".

Ideal AVID Students

List - Brainstorm

August 2, 2010

New School Year

Welcome Back 8th graders
Welcome to BMS AVID 7th graders.

This will be a great year filled with goals, success and achivement stories.

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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