Today's the Day!

Good Morning and welcome to our LAST day of class!!  Below is the agenda for today:

1. Complete the survey/test at: https://goo.gl/wNMf6z
2. Complete any final assignments you still need to submit and ensure they are in by the end of the class period.  All assignments submitted to date have been entered and posted in School Loop.  Any assignments submitted today should be sent via email (and can be shared as a google doc as long as I can view them!)
3. Get ready to celebrate Friday at our Academy BBQ and Graduation Celebration!!  Please be sure to dress appropriately for the occasion and invite your family (mom, dad, aunt, uncle, brothers and cousins) to join us - if they influenced you and your path to graduation, they should be included in the celebration!!!

Thanks and that's it!!

Need Quotes for Your Inside Job Research Paper

Here's the movie manuscript - you'll likely find this very useful (and interesting)

http://www.sonyclassics.com/awards-information/insidejob_screenplay.pdf

5/13 Blog w/Link

Good Morning, Happy Block Day!!

We are almost there!!  To kick off the morning, please click on the following link and take the short quiz on Chapter 20, Sections 1 & 2 which focus on Direct Foreign Investment and Global Integration.
The link is: https://goo.gl/937Tge

Once done, please transition quickly and quietly into working on your Home Buying Project and Inside Job reflection.

These assignments are due two weeks from today!!!

Thank you!
Mr. Rubin

Note: The online textbook can be found at http://en.calameo.com/read/00082521404f02355b178

Monday, May 11th!

Good Morning and Happy Monday!!  I apologize for being absent today, I'll be back tomorrow, but it is important that you make progress with your 2 final end of the year projects today!!  Thank you to those of you who have completed and submitted your home buying project.  I would hope that at the latest, most of you are finishing one of the two projects by the end of this block day, May 13th/14th.  Remember - you have the final assignments we will be working on this year in your hands ... I promise ... your hard work now will ensure a smoother, easier and more successful finish to the school year!!

Thank you and see you tomorrow!!

Planning Your Future

Good Morning!




Today's activity is all about who’s hiring and how to get hired! Although the answer might seem obvious, there are a lot of great resources you are about to learn about. From the Occupational Outlook Handbook to developing your personal brand and developing an online professional profile! Below you will find some resources we will be using today in class. At the end of class, I would like you to take 5 minutes to reflect on what you learned today. Please share:

• A few careers you are most interested in pursuing following today's discussion 
• What you plan to do (or can do) to achieve your goal of getting a position in this field 
• The most interesting new information you learned as part of this discussion 

Below you will find a series of images that will help guide our class discussion!

You can navigate these resources and many others by visiting: http://www.bls.gov/k12/content/teachers/pdf/choosing_a_career.pdf ... click on the links that are most interesting and make educated decisions about your future!

California specific: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_ca.htm

Career Interest Profiler

Good Morning and Happy Block Day!

Today, we are not going to kick off the morning with our typical Chapter, Section quiz. Instead, I am going to ask you to take a few minutes of your time to complete a Career Interest Survey and complete a blog post with the information you learn about yourself.

First of all, the career interest survey you will complete is located at:

http://studentcenter.ja.org/Careers/Pages/CareerAssessment.aspx

• Click “New Users Register Here” and Create your account.
• Activation Code = N3235773GYT

After Completing your career assessment you will be given results that indicate the occupations of your highest interest broken into five career pathways. Click on the Career Pathway of interest to you - hopefully you are happy with the one that is ranked #1 for you. For your blog post, please discuss the following:

1. What did you think of the career assessment you took through the JA site?
2. What did you learn about the career pathway designated as most aligned with your interests?
3. What did you find about the different jobs available to you and what education is needed for each?  Discuss job opportunities that require at least 3 different levels of academic preparedness.
4. Discuss the median annual salary listed for the career and how that would fit your desired lifestyle.
5. Research and describe the outlook for the career and whether you think it would be a smart investment of your time and money to study and prepare for a career in this field.  Explain!

Thanks for a thoughtful blog response.  You will be asked to refer back to this blog post on Friday as part of our final discussion with Anthony!!  After completing this Career Assessment and spending a little time researching the career of interest to you, please transition quietly to working on your Home Buying Assignment or your Inside Job Research Paper.

Thank you!