October 20th to 24th, 2008

Friday, Oct. 24th, 2008-Early release schedule today
Bellwork: None for today. Just show me your bellwork for the week.
Classwork:
There is nothing new today. Just finish any assignments you need to complete, and I will come to your computer to grade assignents.

Thursday, Oct. 23rd, 2008
Bellwork: What is a dietician?
Classwork:
Today, you need to continue with several assignments due this week:
Finish Your PowerPoint on First Job Interviews (30 points)
Possible Jobs sheet (20 points) (see Oct. 14th for details)
After completing the Plato Assignment, read below for the summary sheet you need to complete for this weeks credit. (20 points)
Plato 3 Making a Choice3
Objective: Learning more about possible career areas.
Directions:
First, complete the two Plato assignments, How they Compare and A Chefs Life

Next, Open a word document, save it as Plato3_your name on your Student drive, then complete the following questions, using complete sentences on all questions. This assignment and the completion of the two chapters are worth 20 points.

1. What were the five different food careers that were mentioned in “How they compare”? (One was a chef)
2. What is a caterer?
3. Would you prefer a job with regular hours or variable hours?
The assignment mentions minimum wage. What is minimum wage?
4. For any job you have, which is more important to you, wages or hours?
5. What does OJT stand for?
6. There were four options the program talked about, Hours, Outlook, Training Options, and Earnings. List those options in order of importance to you.
7. These career areas might not be what you are looking for, but what are some of the advantages to any of these five career areas.
8. What was your percent score on “How they compare”?
9. What was your percent score on “ A Chefs Life”?

Wednesday, Oct. 22nd.
Note: Today is a early release day
Bellwork: What is the difference between a chef and a cook? (you will find out when you are working on today's plato assignment)
Classwork: Start on a new Plato assignment Making a Choice. There are two chapters: How they compare and A chefs life. Complete the first one, How they compare.
Tuesday, Oct. 21st.
Bellwork What percent of high school students at FHS do you think have part time jobs after school or on weekends?

Classwork: Continue working on either your First Job interviews using PowerPoint, or work on your Possible jobs assignment from last week. See Possible jobs assignment from last Tuesday, Oct. 14th.

Monday, Oct. 20th
Bellwork:
Write briefly about something important you learned from your first job interview sheets that are due today.

Classwork:
Get out your First Job interviews for credit and to use in class today.
If you don't have your interview sheets get a completed one from Mr. C so you can complete part II of the assignment.

First Job Interviews Part II
Open Microsoft PowerPoint
Save your file as First Job_Your name_class
(remember; to save in your student drive and in my documents)
Make a total of 13 slides
1.Make a title slide: First Job Interviews and add your name and class
2. Make two column slides and label it Introduction. Then write a brief introduction describing each person you interviewed
3-11: Make two column slides for each question asked. Write the question from the interview sheet as the heading, then write each persons answer in a complete sentence. You might write the answers in the first person because you were talking with them.
When you finish with the questions from the interview sheet, you will have 11 slides:
A title slide, and introduction slide and nine question slides.
Slide 12: What are some things you learned from the interviews of these two people?
Slide 13: Make a slide that labeled "Tips for first jobs"then go to this website: http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/justforstudents/a/parttimejob.htmthen write out several tips that you learned about getting your first job .

After you have finished writing you may use slide designs and animation to make your presentation better. You should only get a start today, this assignment will be due Thursday.