Cardinal Leger Secondary School
Business and Technology Department
Course Name:
Course Code:
Level:
Teacher:
Entrepreneurship – The Venture Plan
BDI 3C1
Ministry Guidelines: Business Studies, 2006
Grade 11, College
Mr. R. D’Angelo
Room: Portable 3
Course Overview:
This course focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas, and
organize resources to plan successful business ventures that enable them to achieve their goals.
Students will create a venture plan for a school-based or student-run business. Through hands-on
experiences, students will have opportunities to develop the values, traits, and skills most often
associated with successful entrepreneurs.
Curriculum Strands and Overall Expectations:
Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs
Analyse the characteristics and contributions of enterprising people;
Compare the characteristics and contributions of various entrepreneurs;
Assess their own entrepreneurial and enterprising potential.
Ideas and Opportunities for New Ventures
Explain the importance of invention and innovation to venture creation;
Analyse various methods of generating ideas and identifying opportunities to satisfy needs and wants;
Generate realistic new ideas and identify possible opportunities for a school-based or student-run business;
Conduct primary and secondary marketing research to evaluate the idea or opportunity for their proposed
venture.
The Benefits of a Venture Plan
Assess the importance of a venture plan;
Analyse the content and structure of a venture plan;
Explain how to evaluate and revise a venture plan.
Developing and Completing a venture Plan for the Proposed Business
Analyse the resources required to run their chosen venture;
Complete the components of an effective marketing plan for the chosen venture;
Complete the components of an effective marketing plan for their chosen venture;
Complete the components of an effective financial plan for their chosen venture;
Produce, using appropriate software, a venture plan for their chosen venture.
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Cardinal Leger Secondary School
Business and Technology Department
Evaluation:
Students will be assessed & evaluated according to the work produced & skills displayed. Methods of
providing feedback may include assessing work in process & evaluating completed assignments, quizzes,
tests, co-operative learning activities, investigations, and presentations.
Term Work
70%
Knowledge and Understanding
25%
Thinking
25%
Communication
20%
Application
30%
Final Assessment
30%
Formal Examination
20%
Culminating Task
10%
Course Total
100%
Learning Skills and Work Habits
Responsibility
Organization
Independent Work
Collaboration
Initiative
Self-Regulation
E= Excellent G=Good S=Satisfactory N= Needs Improvement
Fulfills responsibility and commitments.
Takes responsibility for and manages own behavior.
Devises and follows a plan and process for completing tasks.
Establishes priorities and manages time
Independently monitors, assesses, and revises plans to
complete tasks and meet goals.
Uses class time to complete tasks.
Accepts various roles and an equitable share of work in a group.
Builds healthy peer-to-peer relationships.
Looks for and acts on new ideas and opportunities.
Approaches new tasks with a positive attitude.
Sets own goals and monitors progress towards achieving them.
Seeks clarification or assistance when needed.
Missed/Late/Incomplete Assignments
It is the student’s responsibility to address missed, late, or incomplete assignments. Students are expected to
complete assignments and to adhere to assignment deadlines as follows:
Due Date
A due date is set by the teacher.
10% Penalty Zone
Closure Date
1 school day late – 3%
2 school days late – 6%
3 school days late – 10%
Maximum penalty of 10%
Once the closure date has passed,
work is considered incomplete and a
mark of zero applies.
Parent Signature: _______________________ Student Signature: ______________________
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