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Standard(s):
E7b - The student creates functional documents appropriate to audience and purpose, in which the student:
E7b.1 reports, organizes, and conveys information and ideas
accurately
E7b.2 includes relevant narrative details, such as scenarios,
definitions and examples
E7b.4 uses a variety of formatting techniques, such as headings, subordinate terms foregrounding
of main ideas, hierarchical structures, graphics, and color
E7b.5 employs word choices that are consistent with the persona and appropriate for the intended
audience.
Performance Task:
As a legacy to the school and as a self-help
project, your class has decided to compile a career notebook for use by
students who will begin making career decisions about their future. Graduation from high school marks a new
beginning or milestone. You become more focused on your choice of career and how best to
pursue that choice. Considering what training and schooling is required to gain
the skills necessary for successful employment will assist you in deciding what
career choice is realistic or best for your future. The timeframe needed to achieve career goals
will also help you in this decision making process.
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Choose a career that you might be interested in pursuing. To help manage this project, create a tool
such as a Gantt Chart or PERT (http://www.snc.edu/socsci/chair/333/numbers.html) for recording and illustrating information
gleaned from research and interviews. Use the chart as a guide to write a
notebook entry explaining the pros and cons of this occupation, as well as the
highlights that personally attracted you to this career.
2.
Include in your notebook how to acquire the chosen career with sources
of information properly cited. Show what
courses to take, the schools where those courses are available, and the
duration of the courses. Your chart or
graph should also be part of your final product. You may want to cite courses in your
educational background (grades 9 – 12) that may have served as “prep”
coursework or “pre-training” for this career choice.
3. Have a parent or a knowledgeable adult act as your editor. The ideal editor would be someone who works within the parameters of your chosen career. Input from that individual would serve as a basis for revisions.
4. Submit your final career notebook entry.
The
student work is produced under the following
conditions:
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Timed |
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Extended
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2. Cites
sources of information.
3. Organizes and summarizes
career information and states interest.
4. States
clearly the pros and cons of chosen career.
5. States
concisely the steps necessary to acquire this career.
6. Creates written report that
follows the conventions of standard English.
E1c - The student reads and
comprehends informational materials to develop understanding and expertise and
produces oral or written work
E2a – The student produces a report.
Conventions, Grammar, and Usage of the English
Language
E4a – The student independently demonstrates an
understanding of the rules of the English language in written and oral work,
and selects the structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose,
audience, and context of the work
E4b – The student analyzes and subsequently revises work to clarify it or make it more effective in communicating the intended message or thought. The student’s revisions should be made in light of the purposes, audiences and contexts that apply to the work.