Friday & Monday, October 6 & 9, 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.   FREEWRITE/WARMUP:  Randy Pausch Interview

• Instructions: Read through the statements on the handout before watching the video.
• Complete the Google Doc "Randy Pausch Lecture" as you watch the video.
• Write in complete thoughts as your note-taking strategy
• TURN IN THE GOOGLE DOC AT THE END OF THE VIDEO/PERIOD BY MAKING SURE IT IS IN YOUR FOLDER!  MAKE A COPY AND FILL IN.

2.  Skills for the Job PowerPoint.
Finally, we will be creating a Venn Diagram using the Skills you came up with in your skills selection and then you will do an "OCC" select to get the skills of the job you selected.  You will look at the top 15 skills and do a Venn Diagram based on those selections.

Create a doc called Skills_Venn_Diagram and create it in there by inserting and object/circle and we will go from there.

3.  We will do a Careers Analysis for your career.

4.  Today or next period, depending on time, we will explore what it will take to live on a fixed budget.

We may start the "Will My Job Support Me?"  a.k.a  Salary Based Budgeting

Complete a monthly budget for a minimum wage earner. You will select one of the following jobs and look up the beginning annual wage on slide 3/Step 2 of the tutorial: waiter/waitress/dishwasher; lawn mower, babysitter/ child care worker, barista, retail clerk, gas station attendant, laborer.

Go to the last slide and do the "Reflection". Your choice of career in this case was made for you....a minimum wage job at $11.25!

Salary Based Budget ~ Follow the slide tutorial found in:

Will My Job Support Me?  a.k.a  Salary Based Budgeting

Complete a monthly budget for a minimum wage earner. You will select one of the following jobs and look up the beginning annual wage on slide 3/Step 2 of the tutorial: waiter/waitress/dishwasher; lawn mower, babysitter/ child care worker, barista, retail clerk, gas station attendant, laborer.

We will do this together in class.

CURRENTLY GRADING:

FW # 4  Learning Style

FW # 5  Character

FW # 6  3 Million Jobs  (Separate)

FW # 7  Right Job for Personality  (Sheet)

FW # 8  Vocab

Looking at Careers

Interest Profiler

Importance Locator

Meyers Briggs

Reality Check

Skills