Tenth Grade Personal Project Calendar
The following timeline will allow you to monitor your progress and help you stay on track.
Date
September
October
Activity
 Sept. 29th, Homeroom breakfast and
Personal Project into by Principal Bass
in Foods lab (Putting personal in the
personal project)
 Sep. 29th, Intro by IB Coordinator
(Interest Inventory, brainstorm project
ideas/ process journal, entries 1-3
(Language A/IB Coordinator)
 Oct. 7th (10 min. Q & A regarding
personal project contract),
(Humanities/IB Coordinator)

December
October 10th, Personal Project Contract
due to IB Coordinator
 Oct. 13th-Review Personal Project
Criteria (IB Coordinator), Humanities
 Week of Nov. 7th Annotated
Bibliographies (Humanities/IB
Coordinator)
Research phase
January
Research phase
February
Research phase
March
Project phase
April
Project phase
November
Journal
*Journal Entries 1-2:
beginning the project,
brainstorm topic choices
*Journal 1-4 completed: topic
choice, create timeline,
purpose statement
*Journal Entries 5 completed:
brainstorm finding resources
*Journal Entries 6 completed:
read/reflect-important
books/authors, relevant
newspaper/magazine, set up
interview(s)
*Journal Entries 7 completed:
read/reflect-important
books/authors, relevant
newspaper/magazine, set up
interview(s)
*Journal Entries 8 completed:
read/reflect-important
books/authors, relevant
newspaper/magazine, set up
interview(s)
*Journal Entries 9 completed:
working on project, changes
made, next steps
*Journal Entries 10 completed:
working on project, changes
made, next steps
May
Rough draft paper
th
th
th
Journal Entry 11
th,
May 7 -10 , 14 -17 Intersession Personal
Project Work Session (am/Media Center)
June

May 29th-June 1st : Final Product check-in
IB Coordinator : Complete descriptions
for exhibition night (due June 1sth)

June 5th, 6th Personal Project Work
Session for paper (4:00-7:00 Media
Center)

June 8th Rough draft paper due
(Language A/IB Coordinator)

June 19th, 20th Personal Project Work
Session (4:00-7:00 Media Center)

June 22nd: All Parts of project due product, paper, process journals
June 28th: Personal Project Exhibition
(5:30-7:30 PM)

Journal 12-14 (self-assessment
of rubric, ideas for
presentation)
Info about project:
http://wx-personalproject.wikispaces.com/
Students may do their process journal on a blog site (mentors can gain access):
http://xwib.edublogs.org/