Week of June 23, 2008

Have a happy and safe Summer!

If you want to get your grade or to get work returned that you don't have right now, contact me at Professorklk@aol.com before the last day of school (Thursday, June 25) and I will make whatever graded classwork I still have (-- that you haven't picked up -- ) available to you.

Please note, most students did well on the vocabulary portion of the final exam, but not as well on the short answer Part 2/Day 2 of the exam. I was as usual too generous and overlooked many things, and passed a large number of you. Did I make a mistake? Prove I didn't make a mistake by doing well next year!

Those of you who didn't pass, make sure you complete your assignments and always bring a notebook and pen to classes and that you are prepared and well positioned to work when you take the class over again next year, with whomever is your teacher.

Friday, June 13, 2008 Freshman Seminar, P 3 & 4

AIM: How are we going to complete our final exams successfully?

DO NOW: Take your seat and clear your desk o all belongings and take out a pen. Today we are taking Part 2 of our Final Exam in Freshman Seminar. There are 20 short answer and T/F questions and an essay. This is our last official class, although we have class scheduled for Monday.

As agreed yesterday, if students were cooperative and behaved well, part two of the final exam would be easy; but since student would not be cooperative and the test was made difficult.
Ms. Kirshner, MBA, MS

Thursday, June 12, 2008 Freshman Seminar

Freshman Seminar Final Exam part 1, Vocabulary was completed.
Part 2 Essays and Multiple Choice and Fill-in is on Friday, June 13.

The second part was rescheduled due to some students being absent to go on Mr. Melkonian's field trip today, June 12.

Notebooks were checked again today for a notebook grade, and a do now and business article reading and summary, and questions were answered for a test grade.

Everything done to cause harm or damage to school property and to students or teachers counts double this week. You can earn points of lose them quickly. Don't gamble with your education and your future!

On Monday, June 16, whatever work remains to be returned to students, (except for the final exams and the business plans), will be returned to students.

Monday-Tuesday MOS Periods 6 and 7

AIM: How are we going to complete our retaurant brochures and menus in time for the competition?

DO NOW: Go through your individual projects for this class and make sure you are happy with the work you did. Is there anything you would now change or improve? Take a look at the business brochure, the celebrity sports or dance advertisement, the History of Money lecturer business card and the poster for it, as well as postcard. Take a look at the project in PowerPoint for the History of Money, and the Coco the Love Dog PowerPoint Project, and the travel ad and related project in Powerpoint. Look at your Powerpoint and Publisher files and at your MS Word and Excel work. Is there anything you would "tweak" now? Go ahead let me know about it, and you can make any corrections or improvements (like adding a background or an illustration, border, photo, textbox, or checking the spelling with spellchec, which you should do regularly. Then you will now put all of your work in the one folder of your PORTFOLIO file and make sure your name is on the file and the period your class is, and this is what will be sent to me as a zipped folder/file and then you will also have it ready to be save onto a flash drive I brought with me, and onto a CD this week, as your portfolio. I bought CDs so I could give you your portfolio when you complete the class. I will bring them in this week.

The contest should be tomorrow and Thursday, in lieu of a test. But I would like to have you create a resume if you don't have one, and so if you are finished we can discuss it today.

Monday, June 9, 2008 Freshman Seminar

Monday, June 9, 2008
Freshman Seminar, periods 3 & 4 -- Lesson plan review

AIM: HOW WILL WE MOST EFFECTIVELY REVIEW FOR THE VOCABULAR PART OF THE FINAL EXAM?

DO NOW: COPY DOWN THESE INSTRUCTIONS:

MS. KIRSHNER WILL DIVIDE YOU INTO GROUPS. EACH GROUP WILL ANSWER THE VOCABULARY QUESTIONS ON THE HANDOUT.

(ONE HANDOUT PER GROUP).

STUDENTS WITHIN THEIR GROUPS MUST ASSIGN THE FOLLOWING ROLES TO MEMBERS (4):
SPEAKER
RECORDER
CHECKER
AND QUIET CAPTAIN (TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE WHO IS SPEAKING WITHINJ THE GROUP, SPEAKS QUIETLY, NOT LOUDLY, AS THEY DETERMINE THEIR ANSWERS, AND THAT NO ONE SHOUTS OUT ANSWERS WHEN IT IS NOT THEIR TURN).

ALTHOUGH THERE ARE FOUR ROLES, THERE CAN BE A MAXIMUM OF 6 STUDENTS IN A GROUP, BUT NO LESS THAN 4 STUDENTS PER GROUP.

THE PROCEDURES OF THE REVIEW GAME WILL BE EXPLAINED AND THE GAME BEGINS.

EACH TEAM MEMBER RECEIVE A BONUS POINT ADDED TO HIS/HER GRADE WHEN THE CORRECT ANSWER IS GIVEN.

GOOD CONDUCT/BEHAVIOR IS EXPECTED AND REWARDED, WITH THREE BONUS POINTS ADDED TO THE FINAL EXAM FOR PARTICIPATING.

THE SCRIBE GETS 5 BONUS POINTS FOR KEEPING SCORE ON THE BOARD FOR ALL OF THE COLOR TEAMS.

Goal: Students will be prepared to complete the final exam vocabulary section.

Summary: Students are directed to answer two reflective questions on paper and hand it in to me at the end of class:

1. What do you believe you will do well on, when you take the final exam?
2. What do you think you need more of a review of, before the final exam?

HOMEWORK: Review vocabulary and notes for the final exam.
Late business plans must be submitted immediately.

The Word Wall was has been increased with new words and placed at the front of the room, and the rules of conduct have been additionally posted, as well as the rules of the game and the procedures.

Friday, June 6, 2008 Freshman Seminar

AIM: How are we going to review and study our vocabulary (from chapters 17 - 30) for the final exam?

DO NOW: What do you believe will be your "Competitive Advantage" in this class, for a good grade, for the last week of class?

Ask students the do now question and have them respond and put their reponses on the board.
Note: we will review the rules and expectations for student behavior and cite Monday being new day and we will be on our best behavior for reward bonus points and to prevent calls home)

(HAVE STUDENTS COPY DOWN THE RULES AGAIN and POST THEM ON TABLET SIZE PAPER AGAIN. REMIND THEM OF THEIR CONTRACTS.)

HOMEWORK: Cut out the cube and tape it together at home and use it as a study cube to learn the vocabulary from our word wall and textbook.


REMINDER: THE BUSINESS PLAN WAS DUE. IT IS PAST DUE. IF IT WAS RETURNED TO YOU, MAKE A COPY AND RETURN IT TO ME IMMEDIATELY. YOU CANNOT PASS THE CLASS IF I DO NOT HAVE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN COMPLETED. YOU SHOULD TYPE IT FOR A BETTER GRADE.

Monday and Tues., June 2 and 3 Periods 3, 4 Prep Final

Freshman Seminar -- AIM -- How do we review for our final exam?

Do Now: What two things have you learned since beginning this course? Explain why it is important to you.

Do Now: (Tues.) When you worked on your KWL chart yesterday, using the textbook, what did you remember that you learned? Why is doing the KWL chart important?

We will share out each day.

Review for the final exam begins. Blank KWL charts and textbooks are distributed.

Students are to place their first and last names and the date and their class and period on the top of the sheet. Students are to look through the textbook, starting with the Intermediate Module on Page 229 Chapter 17 - through Chapter 30, and complete the KWL chart during the period, using the textbook. The first KWL chart counts as quiz 1; the second KWL chart completion counts as quiz 2.

We will share out after day 2.

Next students will get into groups to come up with multiple choice questions on Wednesday, to suggest for the exam. Students must be able to answer the questions as well.

No Classes on Thursday.

On Friday students will determine questions for the essays and be able to answer them, for the final exam essays (minimum of three).

All will be reviewed with entire class in share out.

Next week we will have a review and pretests for two days and then the final exam in two parts is on Wednes. and Thursday of next week.

Homework: DUE Business plans were due already. You can still submit yours, but will lose points for lateness. You cannot pass the class without submitting it to me.

Also, Three corporations to research and why you would want to research them was due last week and is still due, losing points for lateness.

Homework Tuesday, Review your notes.