October 27th - 31st

Friday, Oct. 31st, 2008 Happy Halloween
Bellwork: What are you doing for Halloween?
Classwork: There are two assignments due today:
1. Careers-Activity 1 (See Monday, Oct. 27th for details) Remember all answers should be in complete sentences and make your answers a different color than the questions.
2. Taking a Chance- Plato Activity Part I and Part II. (See Wed. Oct 29, and Thur. Oct 30th for details.
Call me over to your computer to review your assignments before the end of the class.
Late assignments receive a maximum of 50% credit.


Thursday, Oct. 30th, 2008
Bellwork: What are Want Ads? Where can you find want ads?
Classwork: Today, complete part II of Taking a Chance. See yesterdays assignment for details of part

Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 2008
Bellwork: From the Career Cruising website, what are you top five career choices?
Classwork: Today, let's take a break from what we have been doing, and return to the next Plato Lesson. Check your Plato account, you should find a the next lesson. It is called Taking a Chance. There are two parts to the Lesson,
Copy what's in green writing below, Save it as a word document called taking a chance, on your student drive, then answer the questions

Taking a Chance Part I
Name:
Directions:Write at least a one paragraph summary (5 sentences or more) of what you learned from each of the three lessons. Include 3- new words you learned. Include your score on each of the assignments.

Penguin Cove

Kitchen Contest

A good start

Taking a Chance Part II
Mel was looking at Want Ads when he found the chefs contest at Penguin Cove Restaurant.
1. Search the internet with keywords like jobs, want ads, or employment then find several want ads. Copy and Paste, or write out two want ads.

2. Write a description of what you think the job is about and if you would be interested in it.

3. Finally, write a want ad of your own for your ideal job. (Remember your ideal jobs that Career Cruising is helping you develop)



Work on this one during the class.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Bellwork: From the Career Cruising website yesterday, how can your favorite high school subjects help you in your future career?
Classwork: Log into http://www.careercruising.com/, then finish the Careers Activity 1 from yesterday.
If you are finished with that, complete the match maker activity- There are a total of 116 questions to help you pinpoint good careers for you. Complete all 116 matchmaker questions. If you finish with that, check your current grade on the wall to see if you have any missing assignments, then continue or finish those. Check with Mr. C if needed.
Monday, October 27th
Bellwork: What type of information do you get from the Career Cruising website?
Classwork:
This week, I would like you to review some of the activities you completed on the Career Cruising website, before I became your teacher. This will be new for some of you and review for others.
Do the following:
Open http://www.careercruising.com/
1. Log into Career Cruising:
Objective: For you to continue searching for new possible career ideas
Directions:
Copy everything in green below, then paste into a new word document and save it as Careers Activity 1. Then answer each of the 11 questions in a complete sentence. These will be for credit.

Careers Activity 1
Name:
From the main screen, click on Explore Careers, then click Search by School Subject.
Choose your favorite subject.
Scroll through the list and click on a career that interests you.1. What is the Career:
Read job description then answer the following questions:
2. .What duties do people in this career have?
3. What skills do they have?
Click on Education
4. What education and training do you need to enter this career?
5. What other qualifications are good to have?
6. Which college programs are related to this career?
Click on one of the two interviews
7. Person’s name:
(you can find the person’s responses by clicking on the buttons. Answer the following questions:
8. How did this person get into this career? (See questions and answers # 2)
9. What does this person say about Opportunities to get into this career? (see the last few questions in Questions and Answers)
10. What advice does this person have for people who want to get into this career?
Summary- Your Views
11. Do you think this is a tough career to get into? What is the most difficult part?