Today in 7th Grade AVID. TRF's and Informational Flyers

Today the students will be working through their Tutorials Groups and creating Informational Flyers.

The students completing their TRF's will be placed in the following groups.

Group 1 with Tutor

Kyara
Maggie
Sydney
Skyler
Evan
D'Mitri

Group 2 with Tutor (if No Tutor Kendall is Interim Tutor)

Shevonne
Grantland
Bailey
Parker
Kendall
Kaitlyn S.

The remaining students will begin working on their Informational Flyer using Microsoft Word.  They will need to grab a computer from the COW cart, sign into their account, and go to the class website.

To get to the class website you do the following:

1.  Go to www.jlmsolution.com
2.  Click on the Robinson Academic Club
3.  Click on the Wicor Warrior Tab
4.  Click on the Wicor Warrior Blog Link

They will be watching the tutorial below.

IN ORDER TO VIEW TUTORIAL STUDENTS MUST USE
MOZILLA FIREFOX




Then they will begin creating their own file using Microsoft Word.

Their Flyer must following the following rules.

1.  It must be titled Dress for Success
2.  It must include 4 reasons why Dressing Professionally has a positive impact.
3.  It must include a minimum of 4 Image files.
4.  It must have at least 3 different types of font used.
5.  It must have a border.

This Week in AVID - Our Appearance, A New Planet, and TRF's

This week the students are thinking about professional appearances and what exactly that means.  We will be working through a couple of videos and writing prompts to get our minds primed on the subject.  On Friday, the students will be creating print Advertisements based to help show visually what they have created mentally.

Below is the first video we watched regarding Dressing for Success!





The students are also doing their Critical Reading on a NEWSELA Article about the discovery of a new planet.  The article can be accessed by clicking on the following linke.

NEWSELA Critical Reading

Today in AVID 7th Grade

We are finishing our Commercials.

Students are editing their commercial using Windows Movie Maker below.  If they did not film they are finishing their storyboard and exporting those files.

Storyboard That

If they finish with that they may work on THE HOUR OF CODE

HOUR of CODE Link

Windows Movie Maker Tutorials

Windows Movie Maker Tutorial

You will be creating a 5 frame story board of how you to survive in the lunch line.

After creating the storyboard you will be exporting the images.  Then you will upload the images into Windows Movie Maker and create a short video with the images.