20% Pitch Day
Friday, November 18, 2016
9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Spurlock's room D212
Davenport's room D210
The Pitch
One of the main graded assignments that you'll want to implement is the Pitch. This is where students will have the opportunity to "pitch" their 20% project to the class and their teacher. A date will be set for the pitch day. You can invite teachers, administrators, other classes. At ECHS, we want the Pitch Day to be a spectacular event. This is a public event where students make a commitment to ECHS and themselves to complete the 20% project.
Dress and Behavior
Explain to your students that this is a formal presentation and their clothing should reflect that. Boys should wear a tie, girls should dress up. Students are many invite their parents and other teachers to attend this event.
Grading
How will you grade the event? You can find a sample rubric in the tab below.
Project Ideas:
In the end, many of the projects will turn out exactly as they had been proposed at the beginning of the year. Many of students will changed the scope of their projects. Some of them will considertheir projects a failure because they ran out of time or they couldn't make their businesses profitable.
Ask yourself... how often successful leaders failed, and we all get a sense that even failures were successes when we learn from their failures.
Dress and Behavior
Explain to your students that this is a formal presentation and their clothing should reflect that. Boys should wear a tie, girls should dress up. Students are many invite their parents and other teachers to attend this event.
Grading
How will you grade the event? You can find a sample rubric in the tab below.
Project Ideas:
- build a tutoring network of high school students helping middle school students
- design a complex videogame map using Valve's SDK
- start a business selling originally designed t-shirts and accessories
- launch a web-design start-up for local organizations and businesses
- write a graphic novel
- make a stop-motion animated movie of a scene from Macbeth
- write a backpacking guide for teenage girls
- interview local senior citizens and document their history
- record and produce a full-length album
In the end, many of the projects will turn out exactly as they had been proposed at the beginning of the year. Many of students will changed the scope of their projects. Some of them will considertheir projects a failure because they ran out of time or they couldn't make their businesses profitable.
Ask yourself... how often successful leaders failed, and we all get a sense that even failures were successes when we learn from their failures.
