Assignments

Volunteerism:

Volunteer Survey fill in the blanks page (handout)
Hand in the last page.
Volunteer Oportunities at school and in the community (handout)
Hand in the last page.

Leisure Assignment:

Complete your Leisure Assignment (can be downloaded from handouts link) and email the completed document to mr.d.class@gmail.com

Leisure Guide can be downloaded here: http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/Community%20Services/LeisureServices/Pages/LeisureGuide.aspx

Apprenticeship Assignment:

The exploring apprenticeship handout can be downloaded from the handouts link. You can complete the assignment by following the instructions and using Career Cruising.

Create a Business Assignment:

You will have received a handout in class for this assignment.

History of An Occupation

Choose an occupation.  Find out how it has changed over the years. Create a timeline over the past 110 years starting at 1900 looking at each decade.

Include information such as:

§  Education needed

§  Hours of work

§  Wage

§  Skills needed

§  Number of jobs available

§  Workplace changes- ex. small-large business

§  Occupation health and safety changes

§  Age of those in the industry

§  Ask what they think are the most positive and the most negative changes to the industry

Effective PowerPoints:
http://www.slideshare.net/rushaw/effective-power-point

Survey

Your Peer/Adult survey needs to be completed by Tuesday, November 6.

Assignments

We have now worked through goal setting and some long term planning. We have completed the handouts: SMART goals and Learning goals. These handouts are available throught the Handouts link.

You also have completed your Time Clock handout to be handed in.

***You need to have your posters completed for Thursday, October 25. We will try and have them printed for next week.***

Assignments

You will have completed:

• Career Crusing assessment
• Skills assessment
• Research assignment handout

All of these assignments are available through the handouts link.

When you have completed the Research Handout you will take the information you discovered about your occupation and create a poster.

You will use MS Publisher to create the poster
the poster will be 12x18 or 18x12
You need to include:

• A title
• Images & information for each area you researched
• You need to use copyright free images (http://search.creativecommons.org/)
• You need to cite the url for each image you use
• You will copy and paste your urls to a Word document and print it and glue it to the back of your poster
• You need to remember to keep your poster visually effective. Something others would want to look at.

Take Our Kids to Work

On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 hundreds of thousands of grade 9 students from across the country will be participating in “Take Our Kids to Work.”  They will be spending the day in the work force to gain a better understanding of what it means to go to work.

Remember you need to have your consent forms back to school by Thursday, November 1.