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.
Monday-
Topics: Discuss Amusement Park project and requirements. Students to choose groups of two. Brainstorm ideas for their theme park.
Assessment- Daily grades will be taken throughout work on project and complete project will also count as a test grade.
Tuesday-Thursday:
Objective- Continue working on PowerPoint portion of amusement park project.
Friday-
Objective- Finish working on PowerPoint portion of amusement park project. What group doesn’t finish in class, will be for homework and due by the first of class Monday.
Assessment- PowerPoint portion will count as two daily grades based on criteria set by teacher for project.
Monday-
Topics: Review over charts
Activities: Test review questions due. Go over review as a class and make corrections as needed. Test tomorrow over Excel Charts
Tuesday-
Topics/Activities: Test over Excel Charts
Wednesday-Friday:
Topics/Activities- Students to work on “About Me” PowerPoint project.
Sub: Please pass out and pick up project directions each day.
Monday-
Topics: Test results; objectives for next chapter
Activities: Students to define the vocabulary from pp. 453 & 460 for the next chapter over charts.
Tuesday-
Topics: Creating charts in Excel; column/bar charts
Activities: Students to take notes, participate, then complete Job 58 over column/bar charts. Save and print where indicated.
Wednesday-
Topics: Pie charts
Activities: Students to complete Job over pie charts on the computer. Save and print when complete.
Thursday-
Topics: Review material over charts
Activities: Students to complete Jobs 61 & 62 over charts on computer .
Friday-
Topics: Charts in Excel
Activities: Students to complete the Test review questions over charts.
**If don’t finish test review in class, for homework. Due by the first of class Monday.**
Monday-
Topics: Test knowledge of Excel formulas and functions
Activities: Test over Excel formulas and functions
Tuesday-
Student body will attend a performance by the theatre department
**Early release at 11:30
Wednesday-Friday–
Out for Thanksgiving Break!