ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY

Teacher: Tiffany Reynolds Grade/Content Area/Date: Honors Algebra End of the year project
Essential Question(s): What distinguishes social entrepreneurship from business entrepreneurship?
Content Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and
accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.Math.Content.HSA.CED.A.2 Create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate
axes with labels and scales.
CCSS.Math.Content.HSA.CED.A.3 Represent constraints by equations or inequalities, and by systems of equations and/or inequalities, and interpret
solutions as viable or nonviable options in a modeling context.
AASL Standards:
1.1.1.Follow an inquiry- based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real-world connection for using this process in own life.
2.2.3 Employ a critical stance in drawing conclusions by demonstrating that the pattern of evidence leads to a decision or conclusion.
2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.
4.4.5 Develop personal criteria for gauging how effectively own ideas are expressed

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Day-1
KQ

Tuesday
Day-2

What is social entrepreneurship?

Wednesday
Day-3

What is microfinance?
are the needs
microfinance
can
social entrepreneur
decided
what What
Applicatio Research a social entrepreneur from the How
TTW aorganize
students intodoes
pairs.
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TSW explore
the possibilities
to finding
address?
social
problems
should
be
addressed?
n
Forbes 30 Under 30 Social
in pairs, the students will brain storm ideas
three loan opportunities. Students should
Entrepreneurs
of small business they could start that will
identify at least one a Spanish-speaking and
Goal
Describe the actions and behaviors, of serve as an aid to social problems around the Define
microfinance lending
and describe
one an Arabic-speaking
borrower
and
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a specific social entrepreneur.
the
process
for
engaging
in
a
social
Develop
a
develop
a
business
idea
for
social
world. The students will begin collecting
Chinese if possible. With their partner, the
report/2012/30-under-30/30-underentrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
information to create a business plan
student will createopportunity.
a presentation to present
30_social.html
proposal using symbaloo.
to the class using a web 2.0 tool. Students
Activating Todays Meet:
are prohibited from the use of PowerPoint,
Watch the video: How is Social
Social
Networking
Knowledge Using
What the
is social
entrepreneurship?
Problem
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day:Prezi.
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boards,
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a draftbusiness
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Mrs. Holloman (the principal) is interested
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selected
entrepreneur.
https://todaysmeet.com/
in raising $75,000 to update the school
Goal
Learning Blog
Learning
Blog
Learning Blog
Open discussion
gymnasium.
In order to do so, he/she plans
Write a eulogy of that explains why
Read the quote below and respond to the
Read
quote to
below
and, in your
blog,
to askthe
students
sell Worlds
Finest
you selected your specific
question that follows in your blog.
respond
to
the
prompt
that
follows.
Chocolate. The challenge is that the school
entrepreneurs and why your
needs an upfront loan to purchase the
entrepreneur is an exemplary social
[In 1963], a Gandhian named Vinoba
Few
things
are astoimportant
a
chocolate
in order
sell it for ato
profit.
entrepreneurs.
Bhave was walking across India and
familys
dignity
as managing
their
health,
Therefore,
the principal
is asking
each
persuading individuals and whole villages to making
a
decent
income,
and
safely
and a
student to lend the school funds by buying
legally gift their land to him. Bhave then
effectively
thatfor $25 and then
full case of managing
chocolate bars
redistributed the land more equitably to
income
to
maximize
financial
selling the entire case for a total of $100.
support untouchables and other landless
opportunities
Approach,
n.d.,
When the case of(Our
chocolate
is sold,
the para
people, thus breaking an endless cycle of
3).
student keeps his or her initial loan of $25
poverty. (Hsu, C., 2005, October 31,
and turns the remaining $75 over to the
para.1)
Explain
your many
understanding
of microfinance
school. How
students will
have to sell
and
how
microfinance
can
specifically
chocolate for the school to raise the
If you were one of Indias untouchables
address
of family
bywhy
$75,000?the
Is issues
this a good
idea?dignity
Why or
and were approached by Vinoba Bhave with providing
multiple
examples.
not?
the offer of free land, what thoughts would
run
through
head?social
Would you accept or With a partner, the students will discover
New
TTW explain to students that just
Compare
andyour
contrast
the land? and
Why?
Informatio ethics applies to our daily lives, it also decline
entrepreneurship
business
what microfinacing is and how it can be
n
relevant and necessary in the cyber
entrepreneurship station.
used to helpful in their social
world. TSW explore cyber ethics
entrepreneurship simulation through the use
using the Ethics List.ly created by the Station 1: The future of social
of http://www.kiva.org/about/microfinance .
entrepreneurship
teacher.
https://youtu.be/mIpcyTX1Vow
Station 2: Muhammad Yunus Panel
Discussion 1- "The Future of Social
Entrepreneurship"