This past week we finished the fundraising application, and we are waiting for it to get approved from the school board. We also wrote a list of local businesses that we could get donations from. Along with that we made a donation cover letter that included the school tax ID number, and information about the my life school as a whole. Mathew finished sanding the wooden cabinet, and now he is making some new arrangements, he is adding a shelf, and on the doors he is going to put flip out tables. Some new ideas that we are doing is a survey with different snacks so that students can choose the ones they like the best. Our main focus now is getting the fundraising application approved, so that we could start the process of starting the student store.

English Standard 6-12

English Standards

2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its

development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is

shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of

the text.

During this week, the students and I involved with the student store continued to work on important tasks. Before we started the tasks, we had to create our individual timelines to show what our goals were to accomplish every week. This week one of our goals was to talk to the principal about a wooden cabinet that we could possibly use for our store. We got the permission to utilize it as our booth to sell merchandise, this made it easier for us because we wouldn't have had to spend a long time building a booth from scratch. We also mentioned a storage room to keep the merchandise safe. One of the students who was going to build the booth, will now work on the wooden cabinet to make some great new adjustments. The last thing we are focusing on this week is filling out a fund raising application so we can have the approval by the school board to sell merchandise.    

Civic Standards


12.3.1. Performance Standard:

Explain how civil society provides opportunities for individuals to associate for social, cultural, religious, economic, and political purposes.

Having the opportunity to open a student store is beneficial to the students socially, and to the high school economically. The student store will allow students to handle money responsibly, and also learn how to spend it on the merchandise, to make sure profit is being made. The profit being made by the store will go towards the school in general. In order to accomplish all of this, there are some things that we have to do, for example, fill a fundraiser application. Also students will have to socially contact teachers for ideas or questions about materials needed.

This week there were some tasks that we had to accomplish, some of them were still involved from last week. One of the first tasks we had to get done was our group projects, which were due on Tuesday. Basically, we started our proposal involving the student store, which we also had to present  to Ms. Pilcher and Mrs. Cervantes that same day. The last thing Irene, and I  did involving the skate park was make an outline based on who was accountable for what part. Also the students doing the skate park had to prepare for a school board meeting that was going to be held on Wednesday. There purpose was to tell them if they could use the tennis courts as a location to build the skate park. Going back to our group project, we focused more on some of the concerns we had, especially for the location. We needed to find a location were we could secure our merchandise. So what Irene and I did was we emailed Dr. Audet to advise us on the location. The last thing we focused on was finishing the book, "The Alchemist." Our goal is to finish it by this Friday, so that we could discuss everything about it.

Throughout this week the students of my life school refocused on the skate park grant. On Thursday, we had a visitor, Mrs.Rempp, who came to talk to us about the grants. She gave us two grants, one were it was going to take about two to three years, and one that was going to take one year. The Tony Hawk foundation was our best luck to try because its within a year, so now all the students in my life school are primarily focusing on getting the grant done. We have all decided that we would separate in groups and get different parts of the grant done, then when we would finish we would bring all the pieces back together. Our deadline for the grant is in January, so we have to work hard to make sure we get it done. We were also given contact information that would help us out. Another thing we worked on this week was our individual projects. There was a bit of a change, the students of my life project decided we would work in small groups to get the projects done. So a main project some of us are focusing on is the student store, and getting a proposal done.