Be+Your+Own+Boss+What+are+we+learning?

__**Monday, January 16th to Monday, January 23rd, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can develop our "Big Ideas" into one product
 * We can create our own prototype of our product
 * We can create an effective pitch to our "Dragons"
 * We can use the skills of effective presenters to share our ideas
 * We can use visuals to project our ideas to our audience (technology, dress, body language, etc.)

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, January 16th to Thursday, January 19th:__** During these classes, you are going to be given the time to come up with your prototypes, design your pitches, and practice them. Again, DO NOT forget to incude the questions that you need to answer in your presentation. Just remember, answer the questions in a way that it flows into your presentatation. You don't just want to be standing up there answering the questions. Also, if you need access to the kitchen at the end of the hall, we can make that happen. All you need to do is remember to bring all of your supplies! :)

Let's see what we can create! :)

Here is the rubric I, and the Dragons, will be using to evaluate your presentations:


 * __Friday, January 20th:__ Today is your PITCH DAY!! Welcome to the Dragons!!! Here we go!!! :)**

__**Monday, January 23rd**__: Surprise Day! :) Thanks so much for joining me for the last few weeks! I hope you enjoyed this little taste in the Entrepreneurial world!! If you find it interesting you may want to sign up for Entrepreneurship 30, in grade 12!!!



__**Monday, January 9th to Friday, January 13th, 2012**__ __**What are we lerning?**__
 * We can begin thinking about the "Big Idea" that entrepreneur may have for a business
 * We can present our designs to the class of our "Big Ideas"
 * We can present our "Big Ideas" to the class in our "pitches"
 * We can create a prototype of our product to show the class

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, January 9th:__** Today, we will give you the period to prepare your presentations for your product. Remember, everyone must have a speaking part! Refer to the questions from Friday's class. You must answer those questions in your presentation. You can use any visuals you want to present your pitch (signs, the computers, charts, etc. just like they do in Dragons' Den). We will begin presenting on Tuesday.

__**Tuesday, January 10th**__: Today we will be presening our pitches, to the class, of your chosen products.

__**Wednesday, January 11th to Friday, January 13th**__: Today, you are going to begin working on creating your own products. It is going to be up to you to come up with an idea from scratch, create a prototype, then come up with a pitch that will be presented to a group of "Dragons'" on the Friday, January 20th. There will be so rules to follow as you are coming up with your ideas:

1. You can use any idea that you find that is school appropriate 2. Your prototype MUST cost under $20 3. You will be in charge of buying the supplies. You keep your receipts and the school will reimburse you up to $20. 4. You will create the prototype 5. You will be presenting your pitch to the class of your product to the "Dragons'" next week, in class. 6. These questions will be answered in your pitch (you have seen them before):
 * What is the product?
 * What does it do?
 * How will this product help people?
 * How many people use this product already? (estimate)
 * How much will it cost to make this product? (this might mean some internet research)
 * How much will you sell it for? (so you can make a profit)

Presentations will take place on **Friday, January 20th**. The Dragon's will be here to view your pitches and ask questions



__**Wednesday, January 4th to Friday, January 6th, 2012**__
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can discuss the procedures for our class
 * We can examine the qualities of a beginning entrepreneur
 * We can begin thinking about the "Big Idea" that entrepreneur may have for a business
 * We can present our designs to the class of our "Big Ideas"
 * We can present our "Big Ideas" to the class in our "pitches"

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Wednesday, January 4th and Thursday, January 5th__**: Hope you all had a great break! Today and tomorrow we are going to be looking at a couple more episodes of [|Dragons' Den.] As we are viewing the episodes we have been looking at the questions being asked of the presenter by the Dragons' and how the presenters react to the Dragons and how they give their pitch. We will be talking about each of the presenters after each segment.

__**Friday, January 6th**__: Today, you are going to be putting together a short pitch of a product of your choice from in and around the school. You will be given some time to go and find ANYTHING. Your job will be to come up with a quick pitch that looks at the following questions:

1. What is the product? 2. What does it do? 3. How will this product help people? 4. How many people use this product already? (estimate) 5. How much will it cost to make this product? (this might mean some internet research) 6. How much will you sell it for? (so you can make a profit)


 * Remember, you want to SELL us this product! Remember the qualities of an Entrepreneur that we talked about as we viewed Dragon's Den**
 * We will be working on this on Monday, as well! :)**

__**Monday, December 19th to Wednesday, December 21st**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can discuss the procedures for our class
 * We can examine the qualities of a beginning entrepreneur
 * We can begin thinking about the "Big Idea" that entrepreneur may have for a business
 * We can present our designs to the class of our "Big Ideas"

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, December 19th and Tuesday, December 20th__**: Today, we are going to take a look at another episode of Dragon's Den and talk about the qualities of an entrepreneur as we view an episode that deals specifically with students that are your age. As we watch the episode, we will talk about how the students, presenting their product ideas, handle themselves as they are presenting to the Dragons. We are going to look at behavior, dress, they way they present themselves, their knowledge, and how they answer the Dragon's questions. We will talk about this as a class as we go along in the episode.

Here is the episode:

[|Pre Episode Prep] [|Dragon's Den: Student Special]

__**Wednesday, December 21st**__: This afternoon, we are having our annual Winter Lit talent show in the auditorium!

I hopw you have an amazing break! Happy Holidays! Have fun and be safe!!

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__**Thursday, December 8th to Friday, December 16th, 2011**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can discuss the procedures for our class
 * We can examine the qualities of a beginning entrepreneur
 * We can begin thinking about the "Big Idea" that entrepreneur may have for a business
 * We can present our designs to the class of our "Big Ideas"

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Thursday, December 8th**__: Good afternoon and welcome to Be Your Own Boss! Today, we will be going over the course outline and procedures during the beginning of class. Here is a copy of the course outline:

[|Be Your Own Boss Course Outline page 1.pdf] [|Be Your Own Boss Course Outline page 2.pdf]

We will also be looking at what it means to be an beginning entrepreneur. We all love food so your first task is to create a restaurant that would be geared toward teenagers in high school. There are some things that you will need to think about:


 * 1. The Food (what will you serve. please include appetizers menu, main course menu and dessert menu with descriptions)**
 * 2. The Environment (what will your place look like? What would bring people in? Can you find pictures?)**
 * 3. The Prices (how much would you charge for food and environment)**

You are allowed to use the computers to help you out in creating your presentation. You are allowed to work with a partner or by yourself.

__**Friday, September 29th to Tuesday, December 13th**__: We will continue to work on your restaurant assignments and present them on Wednesday, December 14th.


 * __Wednesday, December 14th__**: We will be presenting our restaurant presentations today. Tomorrow we will be looking at the qualities of entrepreneurs by taking a look at the TV series, Dragon's Den.

__**Thursday, December 13th**__: Today, we are goin to be looking at the personal and professional qualities that an entrepreneur must possess in order to have a chance to be become successful. Most of us have heard of the show [|Dragon's Den]before that is on the CBC. Today, we are going to look at the Dragon's (the Canadain entrepreneurs that judge the people trying to sell their ideas) and their "Road to Riches" story. As we watch the show, I would like you to make some notes on the following people that they look at.during the course of the show:


 * 1. Brett Willson (Saskatchewan Boy!) **
 * 2. Jim Treliving **
 * 3. Arlene Dickinson **
 * 4. Robert Herjavec **
 * 5. Kevin O'Leary **

For each of these people, I would like you to tell me what qualities they mention or talk about that they needed to be a good entrepreneur. You can even mention the things that you notice about them. I will give you some time to print these notes up on the computer and hand them in tomorrow.

Here is the episode:

[|Road to Riches]

Have a great weekend!