Monday- Wednesday

Objective:  Business project

Assessment:  Students are to finish the PowerPoint portion of Business project

Thursday-

Objective:  Preparation for presenting Business Project to investors

Assessment:  Students will be given time to prepare for presentation of Business project to investors.

Friday-

Objective:  Students will present their complete Business project to “investors”

Assessment:  Students will be given a test grade based on criteria to be included in presentations.  They will also be given an evaluation grade from each of their team members.

Monday-Friday:

Objective:  Business project presentation

Assessment:   Each student will be graded (test grade) on their part of business project presentation that they are assigned.  They will also be given a participation grade by each of their fellow team members (which will be averaged together for a second test grade). Completed project due Friday.  Presentations to investors on Monday of next week.

Monday-

Objective:  Continue with group business project

Assessment-  Students will complete the following duties within their groups: decide on a product/group of products/ or service to focus on as a result of the returned surveys; decide on best place to buy product(s) from, actual cost; decide on a selling price; come up with business name, company logo, product name (if applicable)

Tuesday-

Objective:  Discuss forms of advertising

Assessment- Students to take notes then complete duties for the day including:  come up with a unique advertisement for their product/service and answer several questions regarding advertiding; decide on a location for business; finish any unfinished duties  from previous work days

Wednesday-Thursday

Objective:  Discuss criteria for business presentation to investors

Assessment:  Students to decide who is going to do what parts on presentation.  They are to then work on PowerPoint portion of business project.

Friday-

Holiday!

Monday-

*Freshmen testing- ELA STAAR*

Tuesday-

*Sophomores testing- ELA STAAR*

Wednesday-

Students need to bring something to read or work on due to me being gone with tennis. 

Thursday-

We will pass out the questionnaires that you designed to put in teacher boxes for teachers to give out during enrichment.

Friday-

Evaluate returned questionnaires.  If time, use results to make a decision on business angle to pursue for project.

Monday-Thursday

Topics:  Discuss the presentation activity part of the travel agency project

Activities:  Students to create a presentation using PowerPoint including set criteria to “sell” their Travel Agency services.  Completed projects will be due by the end of class Thursday.

Friday-

Topics:  Presentations of Travel Agency projects

Assessment-  Students to present their PowerPoint projects to the class.  Must include criteria set by teacher.

Monday-

Holiday!

Tuesday-

ACT bootcamp being held in high school auditorium.  Due to a large number of students being gone, please bring something to read or work on in class today.  We will resume with the Travel Agency project tomorrow.

Wednesday-Thursday:

Topics/Activities:  Students to continue and finish the travel brochure began on Friday.   If don’t finish in class, for homework.

Friday-

Topics:  Discuss the presentation activity part of the travel agency project

Activities:  Students will create a presentaiton including set criteria  to “sell” their Travel Agency services.

Monday-

Objective:  Discuss the ‘Owning a Travel Agency, Business Simulation” project; discuss what a logo is

Assessment:  Students will participate in “guess the logo game” online; they will then come up with a business name and logo for their company including  set criteria.

Tuesday-

Objective:  Discuss what a slogan is; look at sample slogans

Assessment: Students are to create a slogan for their travel agency based on set criteria

Wednesday-Thursday

Objective:  Discuss how to create business cards and what should be included

Assessment-  Students to design a business card for their travel agency

Friday-

Objective –  finish any project tasks that were not completed Monday-Thursday

Monday-

Topics:  Discuss requirements for presenting  Amusement Park project

Activities:  Groups will be given time to work on presentations (decide who will say what, print out flyers or any other handouts, check spelling and that all slides are complete, etc.)

Tuesday-

Topics/Activities:  Groups will present their Amusement Park projects to the class. Students will then evaluate their fellow team members on set criteria.  

Wednesday-

Early release

Thursday-

Objective-  Discuss the “Owning a Travel Agency, Business Simulation”  project; discuss what a logo is and what their logo must include

Assessment-  Students are to come up with a logo for their company including set criteria

Friday-

Objective-  Discuss what a slogan is

Assessment-  Students are to create a slogan for their travel agency based on set criteria

Monday-

HOLIDAY!

Tuesday-

Topics:  Amusement Park Integration Project

Activities:   Students to create a flyer to announce a special rate on a certain night.  Flyer must fill an entire sheet of paper.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Amusement Park Integration Project

Activities:  Students to design a t-shirt for their park.  T-shirt should contain the following:  name of park, slogan, appropriate picture, basic information about park.

Thursday-

Topics:  Amusement Park Integration Project

Activities:  Students to create a chart in Excel using any information relevant to their park information, rides, etc.  Chart must:  be a vertical bar chart; contain a title, x-axis title, and y-asix title; contain a legend; bars must be black and white represented by patterns, not colors.

Friday-

Topics:  Wrap up of Amusement Park project

Activities:  Students to wrap up any unfinished work on Amusement Park project.  Slides of t-shirt, flyer, and chart need to be added to PowerPoint as needed as well as an intro and conclusion slide.  Group members need to be listed somewhere in PowerPoint.

Monday-Thursday:

Objective-  Students will continue working on the Amusement Park project (powerPoint portion) in their respective groups

Assessment-  PowerPoint portion will be due Thursday by the end of class.  Will count as two daily grades based on criteria set by teacher for project.

Friday-

Objective: Students to continue the Amusement park project by creating a flyer for their park in Word.

Assessment: Flyer will be graded based on set criteria and worth one daily grade.