Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Wednesday & Thursday, February 17 & 18, 2016


Dear Class:

Learning Targets: Students will --
  • Know basic budget vocabulary
  • Know whether a minimum wage job can support you
  • Understand the value of self-assessments.

Good to Know...


     Tuesday (carried over from Thursday last week)
New seating: PERIOD 8
     FreeWrites/Warm-Up:  
  • FW #2- This is from your Paceography. We will create a Google slide for this assignment. File name: PDx_FullName_PACEFinalProject

     ActivitiesStudents, you will work on the following today:

  1. What are wages and salaries?  A short video explaining earnings from a job.
  2. Finish Salary Based Budge for minimum wage earner
    Goal: reach a balance budget of $0.00 or plus.
    Adjust expenses and savings allotments to achieve this.
    Reflection:
     >>>>   Will this wage support you?
     >>>>   What adjustments or compromises  will you have to make to reach a balanced budget? 
  3. Presentation from staff of College Possible, ~ 45 min
    B day: last half of period 5, first half of period 6 and first half of period 8
    A day: TBD
  4. CIS Interest Profiler- Make a screen shot or copy of your results and place them into a new Google doc, PDx_FullName_InterestProf. 
    This survey assesses the kind of work environment your interests indicate.​
  5. If time, video on Careers — It Is Not Too Late To Think About Careers

 
     Wednesday


     Thursday 

     FreeWrites/Warm-Up
:  

     Period 5: Finish video: Make Stress Your Friend, share
      FW # 2, 3, or 4 — Please finish responses. See FW slide.

     ActivitiesStudents, you will work on the following today:
  1. What are wages and salaries?  A short video explaining earnings from a job.
  2. Finish Salary Based Budge for minimum wage earner
    Goal: reach a balance budget of $0.00 or plus.
    Adjust expenses and savings allotments to achieve this.
    Reflection:
     >>>>   Will this wage support you?
     >>>>   What adjustments or compromises  will you have to make to reach a balanced budget?
  3. CIS Interest Profiler- Make a screen shot or copy of your results and place them into a new Google doc, PDx_FullName_InterestProf. 
    This survey assesses the kind of work environment your interests indicate.​
  4. If time, video on Careers — It Is Not Too Late To Think About Careers

NOTE~

If you are absent from class, it is your responsibility to go to the class website, read through the weekly agenda, find the work you missed, and complete it.

    Friday  & Next Monday

     FreeWrites/Warm-Up:  
  • FW # ? - 

     ActivitiesStudents, you will work on the following today:
  • VIDEO: Looking At Careers: It's Never Too Soon
    Complete the handout as you watch the video. 
  • Finish writing your response to the questions posted on FW 3 and FW 4 slides. 
  • Use the slide prompts to transfer the information from your FW 2, 3 & 5 to your final project. When you finish with this task, you will have completed about half of section one of your final project.  YEAH!!!!  
  • Next week we will continue with :
    What are wages and salaries?  A short video explaining earnings from a job.
    Finish Salary Based Budge for minimum wage earner
    Goal: reach a balance budget of $0.00 or plus. Adjust expenses and savings allotments to achieve this.
    Reflection:
           >>>>   Will this wage support you?
           >>>>   What adjustments or compromises  will you have to make to reach a
                       balanced budget?

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