Career Choice Poster /Write Job Description

Students will have researched their selected career in Social Studies class.

Students will read job descriptions from career books in library and on the internet.

Students will create a personal career poster with visual materials and five paragraph, typed essay that includes job skills required, returns to the employee and why the student’s characteristic traits match the selected career.

Language Arts - State Goals

	1.B.2a – Establish purposes for reading.
	1.B.2b – Identify structure of nonfiction texts to improve comprehension.
	1.C.2a – Compare and contrast the content and organization of selections.
	1.C.2d – Summarize and make generalizations from content and related to purpose of materials.
	1.C.2f – Connect information presented in tables, maps and charts to printed or electronic text.
	3.A.2 – Write paragraphs that include a variety of sentences types; appropriate use of the eight parts of speech; and accurate spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
	3.B.2a – Generate and organize ideas using a variety of planning strategies.
	3.B.2b – Establish central ides, organization, elaboration and unity in relation to purpose and audience.
	3.B.2d – Edit documents for clarity.
	3.C.2a – Write a variety of purposes and for specified audiences in a variety of forms (expository).
	3.C.2b – Produce and format compositions for specified audiences using available technology.
	5.A.1a – Formulate questions and construct a basic research plan.
	5.A.2b – Organize and integrate information from a variety of sources.
	5.C.2a – Create a variety of print and nonprint documents to communicate acquired information for specific audiences and purposes.

State Goals - Social Studies

	15.A.2b – Describe how incomes reflect choices made about education and careers.
	15.B.2a – Identify factors that affect how consumers make their choices.
	15.B.2c – Explain that when a choice is made, something else is given up.

State Goals - Social Emotional

	1A.2a. – Describe a range of emotions and the situations that cause them.
	1A.2b. – Describe and demonstrate ways to express emotions in a socially acceptable manner.
	2A.2a. – Identify verbal, physical, and situational cues that indicate how others may feel.

Glue/Scissors/Poster

Pictures from the Internet related to selected career/Magazines

Career Choice Poster Rubric

Writing Rubric

This lesson will require two-50 minute work sessions.

Students will assemble a career poster with items that they have chosen related to their selected career.

The poster will reflect examples of required education/career skills, personal returns, communication between coworkers and employer, salary and their connect character traits that match this job.

During the second day of class students will come to class with five paragraph expository writing that reflects job skills required, returns to the employee and why the student’s character traits match the career.

Students will be assessed on visual representation of education/career skills, personal returns, communication between coworkers and employer, salary and their personal character traits that match the chosen career using career choice poster rubric.