Monday, November 14, 2016

Tuesday, November 15th- 8th Grade- Finish Cover Letters and Complete Job Application

Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
Date: 11-15-2016


Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Understand requirements for seeking, gaining, and maintaining employment

Standards:
6.01 Understand skills required for seeking employment



“I Can…” Statement

I can create a cover letter.
I can complete a job application.
TEST NEXT TUESDAY


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
      
1.  Go to wclassroom.blogspot.com 

2. Go to Computer- Student Docs- Witkowski folder- Exploring Business folder-
    Employment folder- open 6.02 Job Application Process
3. Open your character cover letter
Lesson-Instructional Strategies and Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Lesson
Miss W will show sample cover letter
Your address needs to be in right corner
Date may be under your address or to the left above their address
Their address must be in the left column

1.  Review cover letters at this site and start your cover letter 
We are going to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0suKZ-oU8s   

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/samplestudentletters/a/studentcoverletters.htm

2. Learn about Job applications

Independent Exercise:
Finish your character cover letter for your character resume

Make sure you use action verbs, complete sentences, correct spelling and
grammar.
-You should have an introduction paragraph.

-A middle paragraph explaining how your skills match job requirements

-A conclusion paragraph requesting a job interview.

-Save to your lunch number as "cover letter"

*** Complete job application

If time:
 Why millennials have a tough time landing jobs - CNBC.com
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/28/why-millennials-have-a-tough-time-landing-jobs.html


Read the article. Circle 2 items you find interesting or that you did not know.
What is one positive ability that millennials have?
What are two negative or bad things that millennials do during a job interview?
If you were absent on Thursday: Review of Resume Assignment:
@ Students will create a character resume for a fictional character from a book, movie,
     tv show or video game. Do NOT use my Harry Potter example.  

https://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/egrahamj1/Character-Resume- 

Personal Data
Harry Potter             Capitalize first letter of first and last name
1265 Owl Street       Capitalize first letter of street name and word street
London, NY 23487   Capitalize first letter of city and all of state abbreviation
Job Objective:
What type of job, policeman, singer, etc.
Work Experience:


Exit Activity 1- Parts of a Resume https://www.quia.com/rd/277327.html?AP_rand=5466997


 
Exit Activity 2- Resume- hangmanhttps://www.quia.com/hm/453291.html

 Exit Activity 3 https://www.quia.com/rr/1099635.html 
          refer to your character resume if needed

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