This week we decided to grow as big of a garden as we can to share with our neighbors, like being in the country. It was Paolo's idea to get fruit trees and share our proceeds with everyone.

BLOG switch over from BUILD to Uptegraft Home Gardening

SANTA CLARA University Field Trip

Timeline for Field trip (FINAL)

7:55am meet in front of PAC
8:05 depart for EPAPA / pick them up / leave for SCU

-Arrive @ Santa Clara Univ.
-Student performance
-10am snack / free-time [30 min]

-11:45 Depart for Hometown Buffet
-lunch, Jr MBA Ceremony & Yearbook presentation

-1:30 Leave for EPAPA & student drop in EPA

-2:10 Arrive & drop off @ WHS

Questions / comments - contact Ms. Uptegraft afleur@seq.org

Academic Awards Night - 2/10

BUILD‘s Academic Awards Night
The following students have earned a BUILD Academic Award during the Fall 2010 semester. Please congratulat them:

Bennett Ashley
Kaufman Savvy
Ortiz Flo
Rodriguez Marifur

BUILD‘s Academic Awards Night
Thursday February 10
6:00pm-7:00pm

Fair Oaks Community Center
2600 Middlefield Rd.
Redwood City, CA 94063

BUILD SHOWCASE #2 - - SAVE the DATE

March 8, 2011, Showcase #2 5:30 - 7:30
Woodside HS Library

Winners from Showcase #1: Team The End: a team offering fun spirit wear designed by teens and soon to be sold in the Woodside Student Store.

Close 2nd place winners:
Team Yummy: Portable cake bites because everyone likes a little bit of cake!
Team Bomb: Confetti expelling candles for your most exciting birthday parties!
Team Guthix: "Brewed Awakening", Woodside's answer to morning grumbly stomachs!
Team Shade: Customizable hoodies - a fun way to express yourself with your favorite colored hoodie w/ your very own slogan! Does your hoodie have ears or paws?

2011 JrMBA Business - SHOWCASE #1 5:30-7;30 pm in WHS Library

Please Join us in the Woodside Library for an evening of presentations from our 5 teams with prototypes:

Team Guthix, a Breakfast alternative on campus
Team Beauty Hustle, On campus make-over w/ hair & on-line beauty tips
Team Yummy, cake snack bites
Team End, WILD Woodside Wildcat gear
Team Bomm, Bomb shaped candles for special occasions

Good luck to all!
*Students need to be in B2 dressed no later than 4:30 pm [no tutoring on 1/18]

Welcome Back! New schedules ...January 5, 2011

Hello,

The first day of the second semester is January 5, 2011 (A day)

ALL students are required to pick up their quarter 3
class schedule starting at 7:30 a.m.

Grades 9 and 11 pick up your schedule in the Old Gym
Grades 10 and 12 pick up your schedule in the MUR

Come early...

Marketing 101

Day 1-4
1. Complete Market research on Burgers, Shoes, Pizza, Soda, &
Calculate percents of product favor.
2. CREATE excel spreadsheet & activate WHS email account
3. Email Ms.U -> afleur@seq/org w/ Market survey attachment
4. Target Market - define & create TEAM's TM

2010 JrMBA Business Challenge - Nov 2, 2010 5:30-7pm

WELCOME New WHS Teams for 2010-2011

Team Guthix
Team **** <- surprise [formerly Bacon Hawks]
Team Yummy
Team Bommm
Team Beauty Hustle

Please JOIN us in the library for an evening of fun competition!
Contact Ms. Uptegraft if you will have any team member missing- afleur@seq.org.

BPC Winners & Summer E2 Incubator ORIENTATION - 6/9 5:30

4th Place Winners: WHS Team BaBay, Congrats!



E2 Orientation on Wednesday, 5:30. Contact Ms. Uptegraft w/ questions, afleur@seq.org

Tuesday May 3, 2010 - Final prep BPC

This week teams will be practicing their presentations and creating strategies to deliver the most convincing, POWERFUL presentations of all 4 schools!

I am hopeful we will have more than two winners from Woodside HS - we have great teams & by using the students' innovative ideas, we will take home the prizes.

The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
[Thanks Tim!]

Teams and Business ideas

Tues 10-13 create Brainstorm books
Wed 10-14 College day - No BUILD Class [Minimum Day]
**Mentor session happening
Thur 10-15 continue work on Books, SWOT product ideas and discuss products vs. services
Friday 10-15 -Computer research on feasible business ideas
-TEAM name selection

Have a restful weekend and be ready for FINAL product decisions.

..........HOMECOMING WEEK...............
Tuesday 10-20 Begin Marketing
Wed 10-21 Marketing
Mentor session 5:30-7pm- attendance required
Thur 10-22 Marketing
Friday 10-23 Marketing

9-22 through 9-25

9-22
Complete Invention presentations

9-23
Complete SWOT
Strengths: the entrepreneur’s abilities and contacts
Weaknesses: problems the entrepreneur faces from lack of money, training, time or experience.
Opportunities: advantages the entrepreneur can use to get ahead of the competition
Threats: anything that could be bad for business, from competitors to legal problems

9-24
Logo & quiz on SWOT [make sure your colored papers are returned!]
**Sign-up for After School program - see Ms. Uptegraft for details

9-25
*Visitor - Ray Faustino, BUILD Director
Complete Unit2, review Business plans to see how SWOT worked

Unit 2 - Monday BizOpps

Tuesday 9/15 What do you think Biz Opps means? COLLECT Paperwork...

*Debrief in groups from carrier / or game. Write up results.
Individually:
-Complete BUILD score [personal performance]
and Personal Preference Assessment

Wednesday 9/16 brainstorming - list all the things you use in your kitchen that solve problems...PROBLEMS are opportunities.

Review inventions others have made as solutions to problems...NEW GROUPS
Case Study, SWOT [Strengths, Opportunities, Weaknesses, Threats].

Thursday 9/17 Warm-up: List two ideas of brainstorming and tell why it is important.
-Review Kiara's Business plan, create SWOT

Friday 9/18 External BizOpps- Decide what logo Kiara will use.
-Continue External business opportunities

Tuesday, September 22 Passions as Opportunities

Welcome back BUILD from 3-day Labor day weekend

This week @ WHS BUILD 9-8 thru 9-11:

Tuesday 9/8:
Warm-up: INVENTIONS quiz....I always wished I had _____ to do _____.
1) *Groups will be voting on most creative, best actor, best actress for their for products.
2) Complete debrief for Products-in-a-Bag
3) Teams fill-out TEAMWORK debrief sheet [assessment/test]

Wednesday 9/9:
WARM-up: Share within teams the importance of "debriefing" - get SCRIBE!
1) Teams discuss inventions
2) Team agrees on "1" invention to create proto poster & commercial for

Thursday 9/10:
WARM-UP team brings in the most IMPORTANT invention ever!
1) Describe 2 options for last product - Harmless Holder, Small place Game
2) Teams begin creating last 'design'

Friday 9/11:
WARM-UP: review Design Squad episode
1) Teams continue work on final design project. [QTR grades- discuss free PSAT]
2) Teams assign poster/commercial assignments to people.

5/7 Macbeth homework reminder - pick-up the questions

Homework reminder: DUE 5/7/09:

Lesson #11 - Humour vocabulary packet pp. 67-69

Act III, Scene ii-v: review the questions & answer sc ii-V. [Our class discussion covered 95% of this material] COPIES of questions attached / also in Room E2 / A4

****Read Act IV, Scene i and answer questions [apparitions with witches].

-Grades will be posted on Thursday, vocab tests will be returned.

Writing Tutorials will be held Wednesday 5/6 & Thursday 5/7 during 7th period [2:20-3:30]in E9, Ms. Camera's room.

If you did not turn in an essay, or need additional writing assistance - please come get help.
-Outlines for essays will be available, we will break down the essay prompts & find evidence!

Questions located on Communicado @ https://communicado.seq.org/index.php?action=classpage_view&site=004&districtid=001&subpage=homework&user=afleur§ionid=052089-07

April 27 - May 1

___April 27__________
review Act III quiz
review antonyms / synonyms Lesson #10 - prepare for vocab test 4/29
Review Act III quiz,
Complete ActIII [read what we do not complete in class]
HW: Complete Postreading Activity - questions #1-6
Write up focus question as 4-29 Journal:
"To what extent do you think Macbeth's corruption is due to his weaknesses within his character and to what extent do you think his corruption is due to external forces"
Study for Vocabulary test #6 on 4/29

___April 29__________
Vocabulary test #6 4/29
Hand-in Journal 4/29: Discuss exploration questions
Start Act IV - complete Close read on Act IV
Review essays: in-class writing editing [writing tutorial sign-up]
HW: Complete at home close read in Act IV [15-20 min]

___May 1__________
Review vocab test
Final essay assignment
Complete Act IV, start Act V

HW: Complete close read in Act V [15-20 min]

Macbeth agenda 4-16, 4-17

4/16___________Act3 Macbeth _____
=Read& perform ACT III: review questions #1-5
=Cornell notes reviewing characterization
=what is a foil?
=in-class essay - sentence outline required.

HW: Proofread essay and rewrite if necessary /
vocabulary lesson completed

4/17___________Act3 Macbeth _____
=Complete ActIII: review questions #6-end
=class discussion in topics of essays
=groups to sign-up to perform scene from play

HW: Outside reading - decide on assessment [ppt, poster]
BRING OUTSIDE READING BOOK TO CLASS 4/21-4/23

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Macbeth Agenda 3-23, 3-25, 3-27

Agenda:
-Read Act2, sc i-ii in-class: discuss quotes on 4 page hand-out.
-Group work to translate the quotes in groups of 9.
-Quiz - Lesson#6 Great Source vocabulary [review same]

HW: Complete reading Act2, sc iii-iv, describe #18 quote "what is he saying about sleep?" <-what does sleep do for us? What has Macbeth imagined he heard about his sleep?

Agenda 3-25:
-Review/Complete Act2 - quiz over Macbeth's hallucination over sleep #18
-Review 4 parts of Macbeth's Guilt soliloquy, LadyM's reason for not killing the King herself.
-Assign character posters
**Return any ESLR you have not turned in.
HW: Make sure to come to class with your selected novel

Agenda 3-27:
-Group work on character sheets
-Vocabulary Lesson #12
-Select Outside reading.
HW: