Thursday, December 1, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance
Objectives: SWBAT create and deliver an elevator pitch, and create an effective website for their business.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Go online and collect five images related to compassion and write a brief description on why this relates to compassion.
Inquiry 10 minutes: Review notes on Elevator Pitch examples we watched on Tuesday and list three pieces of advice.
Activity 20 minutes: take time to finish elevator pitch and make sure grammar is correct and all the points are covered.

1. [Name of your company] provides [your products or services] for [describe the specific segment of the market you will serve] who [describe the problem this solves for them].
2. [Enter one sentence that tells why this business is needed and by whom.]
3. [Make a statement about the size and/or growth trend of the industry.]
4. [Write a sentence or two, no more, to address your qualifications to run the business.)
5. [Make an honest, upbeat, substantive and credible claim about the business potential in terms of sales or profitability.]

Practice 15 minutes: Get with a partner and practice elevator pitch.
Activity 30 minutes: 7 Habit of a Highly Effective Teen Comic Life
Video 30 minutes: Teacher will have students come back in pairs of two and film their elevator pitch.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance
Objectives: SWBAT create a one minute elevator pitch and an effective website for customer and guests of their company.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Please describe how Thanksgiving can apply to business.
Reading 20 minutes: Visit http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/28/black-friday-2011-spending-sets-new-record/

• Three Facts
• Two Questions
• Summary

Demonstration 15 minutes: Youtube videos on Elevator Pitches 

Complete Elevator Pitch 20 minutes

1. [Name of your company] provides [your products or services] for [describe the specific segment of the market you will serve] who [describe the problem this solves for them].
2. [Enter one sentence that tells why this business is needed and by whom.]
3. [Make a statement about the size and/or growth trend of the industry.]
4. [Write a sentence or two, no more, to address your qualifications to run the business.)
5. [Make an honest, upbeat, substantive and credible claim about the business potential in terms of sales or profitability.]

Memorize and practice with a partner 10 minutes

• List three improvements based on checklist

Elevator Pitches 10 minutes in front of class.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Tuesday, November 21, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance.
Objectives: SWBAT learn how to pitch a business idea,  and create a website.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Compassion Acrostic Poem.
Activity 25 minutes: Finish About Us.
Inquiry 5 minutes: What is an Elevator Pitch?
Reading on Business 20 minutes: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/3-steps-to-a-great-elevator-pitch-HA010074786.aspx

• Summarize Three Steps

Create an Idea 10 minutes: Three Ideas for Elevator Pitch
Elevator Speech Template 25 minutes:

1. [Name of your company] provides [your products or services] for [describe the specific segment of the market you will serve] who [describe the problem this solves for them].
2. [Enter one sentence that tells why this business is needed and by whom.]
3. [Make a statement about the size and/or growth trend of the industry.]
4. [Write a sentence or two, no more, to address your qualifications to run the business.)
5. [Make an honest, upbeat, substantive and credible claim about the business potential in terms of sales or profitability.]

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives

Friday, November 18, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objectives: SWBAT create a website that is effective at advertising their product.
Warm Up 15 minutes: Based on your judgment, how well have you been following your plan to meet your goals? What does it mean to put first things first?
Activity 25 minutes: Finish Home Page of website.
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.

Thursday, November 17, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and the Pledge of Allegiance
Objective: SWBAT identify the importance of prioritizing their work and create a website to advertise for their company.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Write a fictitious narrative or story with the overlying theme of Compassion.
What is the importance of prioritizing and having a planner?
Activity 30 minutes: Partners p. 116-127

• Title
• Picture
• Three Main Points
• Example

Demo 10 minutes: Google Sites

Websites 30 minutes: Create the about us page.

Presentations 10 minutes: Webpage

Closing 10 minutes: Review Objectives

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance.
Objectives: SWBAT create a website for their business, and organize their planner.
Warm Up 20 minutes: p. 112-113 Pick Up a Planner List Five Big Rocks for the Week.
Activity 20 minutes: Create a daily planner, block out time for the week, and plan other things between big rocks.
Reading 5 minutes: p. 116 Does it really work?
Brainstorm 10 minutes: 10 Things you liked about all of the Websites you visited.
Activity 25 minutes: Finish Rough Draft of Web design and Present work.
Activity 15 minutes: Web Design. 
Closing 5 minutes: review Objectives.

Monday, November 14, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objectives: SWBAT create a website for their business,
Warm Up 20 minutes: p. 112-113 Pick Up a Planner List Five Big Rocks for the Week.
Brainstorm 10 minutes: 10 Things you liked about all of the Websites you visited.
Activity 25 minutes: Finish Rough Draft of Web design and begin to work on your own.
Closing 5 minutes: review Objectives.

Thursday, November 10, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance.
Objective: SWBAT describe the importance of using technology to promote business and create a website.
Warm Up 25 minutes: Compassion Skits.

• Write a quick skit expressing compassion
• rehearse the skit.
• present skits.

Research 25 minutes: Look up Five Company's Websites and study their design.
Rough Draft 20 minutes: Work on construction drafts of website and finish.
Web Design 20minutes: Work on Final drafts of website.
Closing 5 minutes. 

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance, and Pledge of Allegiance
Objective: SWBAT describe the importance of making a good website for their business, and create their own website for their business.
Warm Up 15: List Three things being compassionate would improve their character and their image.
Reading 20 minutes: Visit http://ipwatchdog.com/business/the-importance-of-having-a-website/

• List Three Reasons why it is important to get your business online.
• According to the article, are businesses getting online?
• Summarize article and list three of your own reasons why your company should be online.

Activity 30 minutes: Visit Five company websites you are interested in viewing. For each please do the following:

• Describe what it looks like in paragraph form? What catches your eye?
• Describe in paragraph form three links on the website?
• Describe what three different kinds of products they advertise.
• List at least one thing you think would make the site more interesting or better.

Activity 30 minutes: Create your own page on Google Sites.

• Include about company
• Mission statement
• Goals for the company.
• List three products for the company
• Price
• Picture
• Description
• List Career Opportunities for the company
• Contact Information.

Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives and Clean Up.

Monday, November 7, 2011 Business

Into 5 minutes: Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Objective: SWBAT identify the importance of having a website for advertising and marketing their business.
Warm Up 20 minutes: Visit http://ipwatchdog.com/business/the-importance-of-having-a-website/
Create a website 25 minutes
Closing 5 minutes.

Thursday, November 3, 2011 Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance
Objective: SWBAT describe Habit 3 Put First Things First.
Advertisement 25 minutes: Compassion 

• Title 
• Product Description
• Slogan
• Picture

Warm Up 15 minutes: p. 106-108

• 3 Points
• 2 Questions
• 1 summary

Comic Life 30 minutes: Quadrant 1: The Procrastinator, Quadrant 2: The Prioritizer, Quadrant 3: The Yes Man, Quadrant 4: The Slacker p.108-112

Business Groups 20 minutes: Website for Business example: https://sites.google.com/a/santarosaacademy.org/hair-spray/

Closing 5 minutes

Wednesday, November 2, 2011, Business

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Attendance
Objective: SWBAT describe Habit 3 Put First Things First.
Warm Up 15 minutes: p. 106-108

• 3 Points
• 2 Questions
• 1 summary

Comic Life 30 minutes: Quadrant 1: The Procrastinator, Quadrant 2: The Prioritizer, Quadrant 3: The Yes Man, Quadrant 4: The Slacker p.108-112

Closing 5 minutes