AVID Calendar for the Month of September 2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

7- New Oly Day 8 (A) 9 (B) 10 (A)
• Introduce Question of the Day • Question of the Day PEP
• Ice Breaker: Starburst Activity • Ice Breaker: Silent Interview ASSEMBLY
• Syllabus/Course Description • AVID Mission
• Protocols (Calendaring, Briefly • Excerpt from “Wall of Fame”
speak of binders, notes, and so on) • Getting the GIST of the AVID
• Your college dreams Mission
• Student Questionnaire
• Binder Intro
• Partner Interview Notes
• Cornell Notes Introduction
13 (B) 14 (A) 15 (B) 16 (A) 17 (B)
• Question of the Day • Question of the Day BINDER
• Ice Breaker: How many do • Ice Breaker: Two Truths and a CHECK
you need? Lie Question of
• Wall of Fame book excerpt: • Introduce Learning Logs the Day
“Six Who Came by Bus” • Topic: First Week of High Fun
• Partner Interview continued. School Friday :)
(Tutors start- Ice Breakers • Question of the Day
with tutors) • Ice Breaker: First Impressions
• AVID Binder Set Up Tutorial Introduction
• “Binder Check-Off Sheet” • “Steps in the Tutorial Process”
• “AVID Binder Check-Weeks • “Summarizing: Pyramid”
1 and 2” Activity
• “AVID Binder Grade Sheet • Tutorial guides/student handouts
Forms 1, 2, or 3”

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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
20 (A)
27 (B)
• Question of the Day
• Preparing for Binder
Check
• Review “AVID Binder Grade
Sheet Forms 1, 2, or 3” and
“Got P-M-I For Your Binder
Check?”
• Team Building
• “One-One-Two Minute
Partner Share” Have students
discuss the first two weeks of
school, summer activities, or
other topics to help students
get to know each other.
• Tutorials: Collaboration
through Inquiry
• “Let’s Collaborate Group
Activity” and “Reflection:
Let’s Collaborate”
• Practice Tutorial
AVID Calendar for the Month of September 2010
21 (B)
• Question of the Day
• Model Tutorial
• Cornell Notes Practice
• “Cornell Notes Rubric” and “STAR
Notetaking Strategy” Demonstrate
• Cornell notes for students using the
Cornell Notes PowerPoint
• Practice Tutorial
28 (A)
22 (A) 23 (B) 24 (A)
• Question of the Day ADVISORY
• Tutorial Process
• “The Inquiry Process” and
“Reflection: Do You Have a Handle
on It?” Tutorial guides/student
handouts
• Introduce Costa’s Levels of
Questioning
• “Three Story House” poem and
graphic Activity and “Vocabulary for
Costa’s Levels of Thinking and
Questioning”
• “Inquiry” Section Two: Classroom
Applications Implementing and
Managing the AVID Program
• Practice Tutorial
29 (B) 30 (A)
• Question of the Day
• Cornell Notes Practice
• “Is There a Short Cut” Activity
• 2. Costa’s Levels of Questioning
Practice
• “Arthur Costa’s Model of
Intellectual Functioning in Three
Levels” Section Two: Classroom
Applications Implementing and
Managing the AVID Program
• Learning Logs
• Students can reflect over
tutorials using “Reflective
Learning Log” Activity
Tutorials