Tuesday & Wednesday, February 14 & 15, 2017

Dear Class:

• Know the acronym PACE, the purpose of this class,  and how it will benefit them. 
• Know how to navigate the class website to complete class work.
• Understand the value of self-assessments

1. You need to know the vocabulary.  Budget Vocabulary Flashcard Practice
There will be a test on this next week.... We will look at these together today.

2.  Log into CIS again.  Today we will explore what it will take to live on a fixed budget.  To do this, we will be looking at "Skills" which is under the "Exploration" tab.  Please screen shot the result, copy and paste into a new doc entitled "Your name_Skills".  Save the document in CIS!  We will explore this later as we define the occupation you wish to achieve and what the resulting pay will be.  The occupation will be defined by all of the surveys you took!

3.   Answer the questions from Freewrite 5 (Link) 

Then copy the questions below into your FW  and add a thoughtful response about the survey results.
 Summary of Assessments:

1. What did you learn about yourself from the results ? 
2. 1. How can you use what you learned to help you make a career choice?

4.  Probably not today, but Answer the questions from Freewrite 6 (Link)
We will be watching:
Three Million Open Jobs in US\
 Three million open jobs in U.S., but who's qualified?

Respond to these questions.
Justify your answer with a reference from the video.

1.   Based on the speakers in the video, who are the parties responsible for training/educating people for employment and why?

2.  What is your opinion about this matter? Do you agree with them or not? Explain.

3.  Do you think many of your peers are ready for entering the working environment? Why?

4.  What would you suggest they do to better prepare themselves for work?