October 30, 2015

GO TONIGHT OR TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED! $10/PERSON 6-10 PM

Today in class, we will:

1. Complete Vocab #10 quiz
2. Complete a new post on our blogs (see below)
3. Turn in all Career Unit projects digitally, using the HW turn in form on this blog
4. HW:  None :)


VOCAB #10 QUIZ

VOCAB #9 QUIZ

VOCAB #8 QUIZ

VOCAB #7 QUIZ



New Post Directions:

1. Title new post "Halloween or October Traditions"
2. Write at least one paragraph about your favorite Halloween or October/Fall tradition that your family celebrates.  Your paragraph can also be about your most memorable Fall/Halloween/October memory.  Be descriptive, specific and school appropriate (in content).
3. Insert a fall or Halloween image into your blog post
4.  Make sure you spell check
5. Publish it

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE BLOG ADDRESS SURVEY ON LAST FRIDAY'S CLASS BLOG (10/23/15). I CAN'T GRADE BLOG POSTS IF YOU DON'T COMPLETE THIS SURVEY.

October 29, 2015

Think about it.....

Today in class, we will:

1. Have our last day to work on the Road Map in room 622
2. HW:  Budget/Outline/Road Map....must be turned in by 10/30 midnight; Vocab #10 quiz 10/30

October 28, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Turn in Vocab 010 sentences
2. Continue to work on Road Map project (and/or Budget and Outline)
3. The last day to submit Career Unit projects is Friday October 30, 2015
4. HW: Road Map 10/30; Vocab Quiz #10 10/30

FYI--

• Career Cruising link is on 10/14's blog
• Career Cruising instructions is on 10/16's blog
• All Handouts and the Road Map template is on the Blog entitled "Career Unit Information"

October 27, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Meet in room 621 to work on our Career Unit projects (Road Map/Budget/Outline)
2. HW:  Road Map 10/30; Vocab 010 sentences 10/28; Vocab #10 quiz 10/30

October 26, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Be assigned new seating arrangements
2. Distribute vocab #10 lists
3. Review how to create a Google Slides presentation
4. Review good presentation concepts
5. Review Road Map to Success assignment
6. Time to write Vocab 010 sentences
7. HW:  Budget 10/27; Road Map 10/30; Vocab 10 sentences 10/28; Vocab #10 quiz 10/30; Lab 621 10/27 and 10/28; Lab 622 10/30

October 23, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Take Vocab #9 quiz
2. Create a blog post (see below for topic)
3. Complete the Blog Address Survey (see link)
4. Make up any missing quizzes due to absences
5. Work on Outline (if not completed) and Budget Assignment (due 10/27)
6. HW:  Complete the Budget Assignment; Review the Road Map Assignment

VOCAB QUIZ #9


VOCAB #7 MAKE UP QUIZ


VOCAB #8 MAKE UP QUIZ


CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE BLOG SURVEY--REQUIRED

Blog Post Instructions:

1. Create a new blog post titled "Career Information"

2. Answer the following questions (in paragraph format)

• What is your career?
• Why did you choose it?
• What have you learned so far?
• What's been the most interesting new bit of information?
• What's your favorite part about your career?
• What are you struggling with (in terms of this project)?

Class Goals/Focus:

1. Chosen a career.

2. Researched the career to be able to answer all of the information on the outline handout

3. Created an outline with all of your career information

4. Discovered the starting salary for your career so you can create a monthly budget

5. Created a budget, following the directions on the Budget handout AND what Ms. Petty shared in class. 

6. Defined all of the career vocabulary (this was due ages ago...but in case you forgot)

7. Completed the two assessments in Career Cruising (Matchmaker/My Skills AND Learning Styles)

8. Be ready to start the last project "Road Map" on Monday (which means you've done #1-3 by Monday)

October 22, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Review AGAIN how to submit work digitally
2. Learn two ways to screenshot digital images
3. Review how to format the Budget assignment
4. Work time for research and budget assignments
5. HW:  Vocab #9 quiz 10/23; Lab 622 10/23

October 20, 2015

It's all about perspective and from which angle a person "sees" things....keep that in mind.

Today in class, we will:

1. Learn how to turn in digital assignments again.
2. Learn how to use Google docs formatting to create our final draft outline.
3. Have work time to research and create outline.
4. Work on Vocab 009
5. HW:  Research Career; Outline due 10/21; Vocab 009 10/21; Quiz #9 10/23

October 19, 2015

Today in class, we will

1. Distribute Vocab #9 lists
2. Turn in completed Career Cruising Assessments to tray (if you didn't on Friday)
3. Review Outline and Budget assignments
4. Distribute "Guide to College Readiness" to all students
5. HW:  Vocab 009 10/21; Vocab Quiz #9 10/23; Completed Outline 10/21; Completed Budget 10/27

October 16, 2015

Rally Schedule

1. Take Vocab#8 quiz
2. Work on Career Cruising assessments
3. Turn in results from CC assessments (if done)
4. Start researching your career using Career Cruising and/or California Career Zone
5. HW:  Career Cruising Assessment results due 10/19; Outline due 10/21; Budget 10/27
**If you were absent 10/15, please pick up the handouts explaining the Budget and Outline assignments.

VOCAB #8 QUIZ

Between now and next Tuesday, your goal is to:

1) choose a career to discover about and research
2) find out as much as you can about your career, including the topics listed on the outline
3) make sure you document (list/write down) where you found your information (on which site)
4) bring all of your research to school on Monday to class.
**Make sure you use the link on my blog (10/14/15) to access Career Cruising

IN CASE YOU FORGOT THE DIRECTIONS FOR THE CAREER CRUISING ASSESSMENTS:

1. Use the link on my blog to access Career Cruising
2. Log in using your RHS student ID and password
3. Click on "assessments" on the blue menu bar
4. Choose "Matchmaker" and label it with "your last name and today's date"
5. Complete the first 39 questions thoughtfully
6. Write down the two recommended sectors (upper left corner) and the top 5 career suggestions.
7. Click on "answer more questions" on left margin and answer the next 50(+/-) questions.
8, Repeat Step #6
9. Click on "answer more questions"
10. Answer the next 20 or so questions thoughtfully
11. Repeat Step #6
12. Choose "Start My Skills" on left margin/side
13. Answer the questions.
14. Write down any careers that get a "grade of A or B"
15. Click on "assessments" on the blue menu bar
16. Choose :"Learning Styles"
17. Answer the 20 questions thoughtfully
18. Write down your top 3 learning styles and the percentages
19. Read about those learning styles
20. Turn in all of the information that you wrote down from the assessments.

October 15, 2015

Taken by Maria Rivera (RHS DHOH instructor)

Today in class, we will:

1. Work on research on our tablets (career cruising website)...students were asked to bring a device today for class.
2. Distribute Budget Handouts and Outline handouts to help direct student research.
3. Study for Vocab #8 quiz which is tomorrow
4. Be very nice to Ms. Petty because she has lost her voice and her desktop slightly crashed when she arrived at work.
5. HW:  Vocab#8 quiz 10/16; Lab room 622 10/16; Career Cruising Research due 10/19

October 14, 2015

Today in class, we will:
1. Journal "Have you chosen a career to research? what is it?"
2. Turn in Vocab 008 sentences
3. Review the website "Career Cruising" and the assessments required.
4. Review Career Unit Assignments
5. Work time to research careers
6. HW: Vocab #8 quiz 10/16; hopefully in lab 10/15

CAREER CRUISING LINK

CALIFORNIA CAREER ZONE LINK

October 13, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Distribute Vocab #8 lists
2. Complete a plot chart and a character sketch on yesterday's story
3. Write our Vocab 008 sentences
4. Turn in all work by end of class.

CHARACTER SKETCH

October 9, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Turn in Vocab 007
2. Complete Vocab #7 quiz
3. New post on blog (see below)
4. Review Career Unit materials
5. HW:  Decide on a career for project

VOCAB #7 QUIZ

New Blog Post:

1. Title it today's date
2. Respond in paragraph(s) to the following questions:

• After reviewing the Career Unit materials, what do you think you might want to choose as a career to research? 
• What aspects of the Career Unit are you excited about?
• What aspects of the unit worry you?
• If you are one of my students who have no idea what career to choose, how are you going to resolve that issue?
• What careers have you considered (like when you were 5...what did you want to "be" when you grew up?)?

3. Make sure you spell check and then publish it.

Career Unit Information

Deadlines:


Handouts:

CAREER UNIT STUDENT HANDOUT

CAREER UNIT VOCABULARY HANDOUT

CAREER UNIT BUDGET HANDOUT

CAREER UNIT OUTLINE HANDOUT

CAREER UNIT ROAD MAP---TO VIEW ONLY

CAREER UNIT ROAD MAP--USE THIS TO CREATE YOURS

Activities:

October 8, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Turn in Career Unit Vocabulary to tray
2. Learn how to access the student AERIES portal and Office365---guest instructor: Mrs. Coats
3. HW:  Study for Vocab #7 quiz 10/9; Vocab 007 10/9; Lab 622 10/9

October 7, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Introduce the Career Unit (including assignments, handouts, etc)
2. No journal....but a class writing and turn in to stool at front of class
4. Have work time on Career Unit Vocabulary (due tomorrow)
5. HW:  Career Unit Vocabulary 10/8; In class lesson on AERIES 10/8; Vocab #7 quiz

October 6, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Distribute Vocab#7 list
2. Continue our discussion of skills in the workplace
3. HW: Vocab 007 due 10/9; Vocab #7 quiz 10/9

October 5, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Review plot and also school skills used in real life
2. Take notes on both
3. Turn notes in at end of class
4. HW:  Journal, vocab, etc resume tomorrow.

October 2, 2015

Today in class, we will:

1. Complete Journal #25 (5-8 minutes)
2. Turn in Journals #22-25 to tray (5 minutes)
3. Complete ASB survey for Class of 2018 (5-7 minutes)
4. Complete Vocab #6 quiz  (15 minutes)
5. Complete Group Evaluation (10minutes)
6. HW:  Think about what you want to do when you grow up

October 1, 2015

Photo taken by Mr. Rucker this morning

Today in class, we will:

1. Continue Short Story Presentations
2. HW: Study for Vocab #6 quiz