Acrostic (Name Poetry)/Social Studies/Career Education

Students will work in pairs to create personal silhouettes.

After researching career options in Social Studies and Math, students will discuss in groups of four their identified character traits and determine a career choice that might match individual personalities. They will identify three reasons why they selected this career choice.

Review oral presentation rubric for poem readings to be used the following day (See Day 4 for Rubric).

Language Arts - State Goals

	3.B.2a - Generate and organize ideas using a variety of planning strategies.
	4.A.2a - Demonstrate understanding of the listening process by summarizing and paraphrasing spoken messages orally in informal situations.
	4.A.2b - Ask and respond to questions related to oral presentations and messages in small and large group settings.
	4.A.2c - Restate and carry out a variety of oral instructions.
	4.B.2b - Use speaking skills and procedures to participate in-group discussion.
	4.B.2c - Identify methods to manage or overcome communication anxiety and apprehension.

Social Studies - State Goals

	15.A.2b - Describe how incomes reflect choices made about education and careers.
	15.A.2c - Describe unemployment.
	15.B.2a - Identify factors that affect how consumers make choices.

Math - State Goal

7.A.2b - Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using currency.

Black construction paper

Tape/Glue/Scissors

Two overhead projectors

Cooperative Group Learning Rubric

Career Poster Rubric

This lesson will require one 50-minute work session.

Students will be in work groups of four and will discuss their character traits and how these traits align with a liked career choice they researched in Social Studies class.

While students are in work groups, students will take turns in pairs drawing individual silhouettes. They will complete this activity by taping a black piece of construction paper to the dry/chalkboard, turning on the overhead, standing sideways to the dry/chalkboard, tracing individual profile, cutting out silhouette and gluing their acrostic poem to the silhouette.

Students will have a completed acrostic poem on individual silhouettes. Students will complete a cooperative group-learning rubric.