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Contact me kkwilson@nvps.net Homework Week 1:Parent Letter Signature. Due Wednesday. 10 points Begin each day by:
 * keyboarding practice using Type to Learn or on-line games. Follow the Keyboarding Practice link to the left.
 * Have you checked your grade recently on Edline

Monday-Tuesday plus exam day:
 * Week 9 Last Week of School!!!! **

Create a personal budget using a Google Documents budget template. Include the following items in your budget: Example: $24,000 x .30 = $7200 (income tax deducted from your paycheck) $24,000-$7200=$16,800 (This is your annual salary) $16,800/12= $1400 (This is your monthly "take home pay"
 * Monthly income** after taxes (annual salary -30% divided by 12)
 * 1) Home Expenses
 * mortgage/ rent
 * home owners/ renters insurance
 * electricity
 * water
 * garbage
 * gas
 * land line phone or cell phone or cell phone/internet/ cable package
 * 1) Transportation: Buy a car or take the bus?
 * 2) If you buy a car don't forget gas, repair and insurance costs.
 * 3) Health Expenses
 * health insurance
 * dental care
 * 1) Daily Living
 * groceries
 * personal supplies
 * clothing
 * cleaning
 * salon (hair cut)
 * 1) Savings
 * emergency fund
 * Calculate 6months of living expenses (Gray box TOTAL EXPENSES). How much do you need to save each month so that you have the equivalent of 6 months living expenses saved within two years of working full time?
 * Hint: Divide your monthly living expenses (gray box) by 24. Enter this amount into the emergency fund field. This is the amount you need to set aside each month in case you are unable to work for a time.
 * 1) Obligations
 * federal taxes
 * 1) Charity/ Gifts (only if there is money left over!!)
 * 2) Entertainment (only if there is money left over!!)
 * 1) Charity/ Gifts (only if there is money left over!!)
 * 2) Entertainment (only if there is money left over!!)

Monday-Wednesday
 * Week 8 **
 * Google Presentations: Create a 6 to 10 page presentation using Google Presentations.
 * 1) Choose a career to research.
 * 2) Use Career Cruising as well as the internet to research information.
 * 3) Use google images and/or Microsoft Word to gather COPYRIGHT FREE images.
 * 4) Include the following pages:
 * 5) Title
 * 6) Career Description, including a picture
 * 7) Education/ training required, including a picture
 * 8) Different job placements, or types of jobs within the career, include a picture
 * 9) What you like and/ or dislike about the career, include a picture
 * 10) Career future outlook, including a graph or diagram
 * 11) Pages 7-10, any other information you want to share

Monday Tuesday Finish up Career Cruising.
 * Week 7 **
 * The Degree of Degrees: Going to College, what's it all mean?
 * Update your volunteer experience. Remember, four examples are needed. Forgot to ask Mom and Dad? Do it tonight!
 * Career Cruising:
 * 1) Go to the Main screen. Select Career Quiz on the left and take this week's quiz.
 * 2) Go to purple tab: EDP,
 * 3) click on Career Preparation, blue link on the left.
 * 4) Click on Career Pathways, grey sub link. Make sure you have two career pathways saved to your EDP.
 * 5) Now, click on career and life goals.
 * 6) Write a complete paragraph for your short term and long term goals.
 * 7) Save your goals.
 * Go to Matchmaker results. complete the expected level of education. Save to EDP
 * Go to Careers or Matchmaker results. Select and read about careers. Save at least Four to your EDP. Make sure you click on save, and or update EDP for every change you make or each job/ career you want to add to your EDP.
 * Journal Entry: Respond to this question in paragraph form:
 * Describe what you have learned about getting ready for the world of work. What are some skills or training that you will need to reach your goals?

**Wednesday and Thursday** Final Steps on Career Cruising
 * Follow the purple EDP tab.
 * Go to the purple tab on the left: Activities and Abilities.
 * Complete each of the four sections:
 * Extracurricular Activities
 * Hobbies and Interests
 * Skills and Abilities
 * Awards and Certificates
 * Review your EDP. Use the checklist. Make sure you have completed all these sections.
 * Print report: Go to EDP, Click on Printer Friendly Report, check boxes as shown on screen. Print to lab A.
 * Homework: Share your Career Cruising Report with your parents. Have your parents sign it. Due Monday. (10 points!)
 * Finished Early? Make progress on your member page assignments.

Friday
 * Google Presentations: Create a 6 to 10 page presentation using Google Presentations.
 * 1) Choose a career to research.
 * 2) Use Career Cruising as well as the internet to research information.
 * 3) Use google images and/or Microsoft Word to gather COPYRIGHT FREE images.
 * 4) Include the following pages:
 * 5) Title
 * 6) Career Description, including a picture
 * 7) Education/ training required, skills needed, including a picture
 * 8) Different job placements, or types of jobs within the career, include a picture
 * 9) Potential earnings, including a picture
 * 10) What you like and/ or dislike about the career, include a picture
 * 11) Pages 7-8, any other information you want to share

Week 6
 * Wednesday to Friday**
 * Typing Practice
 * Finish Assessments: Your EDP must be 100% complete today (for points)
 * Your Top Three:
 * When you finish all the Matchmaker questions and Skill Assessments choose 3 careers to save to your EDP.
 * Read about each job. Find out how much money you can make for each job you have selected.
 * Record on scratch paper the average wages (beginning, median and experienced) for each. (Keep this for tomorrow!)
 * Journal Entry: In Career Cruising, go to your journal. Answer this question in a complete paragraph:
 * What is a job that you think you would like and be good at. Give at least three reasons why. Also, include how much you may potentially earn in this job.
 * Create a graph of your top three career earnings potential using NCES
 * Tuesday**
 * Typing Practice
 * Volunteer Experience: The things that you do for others, says a lot about who you are and who you will become.
 * Career Cruising: Today we will learn about learning styles.

**Monday**
 * Typing Practice
 * Career Cruising
 * Take the **Career Quiz**: Follow the tan Link on the left side of the Main Page.
 * Make progress on your career matchmaker! Follow the purple "Assessment" tab at the top of the main page.
 * Make Progress on "My Skills". Make sure you are saving everything to your EDP with the gray "Save" button.
 * Finished with "Matchmaker" assessment? Read about your top ten career matches. Find the jobs that are the most suitable for you.
 * Write a one -two paragraph journal entry: Do you agree with the Matchmaker results? Why or why not? Make sure you "save" you journal entry. **Due Wednesday.**
 * Keep up with your Member Page Assignments! Assignments 5 - 8 will be due Friday.

Week 5 **Monday**
 * Typing Practice
 * Finish Member Page presentations.


 * Tuesday**
 * Typing Practice
 * Help! Where did my picture go? Picture File Mysteries
 * Upload member page pics, a few special steps.
 * Name your photos carefully! Make sure they are jpegs, not psp files.
 * Getting Tricky with Wiki's - have some fun.
 * Assignment # 8: Making A Difference


 * Wednesday**
 * Typing Practice
 * Make progress on cleaning up your member page photos.
 * Assignment #8 **due end of class!**


 * Thursday** Time to figure out how to reach your Life List Goals: Let's take a career cruise!
 * Career Cruising
 * Logins (crossroads/wildcats) + tour
 * ** [|CareerCruising.com] **
 * Journal Entry: Surprises: Answer in a complete paragraph: What surprised you about your Matchmaker results?


 * Friday** Talent Show - Typing Test if time allows.

Week 4 **Monday**
 * Fitness and Technology. Read each of these articles: Obesity (calculate your BMI), Michelle Obama & Let's Move, Play60 ,
 * what we can do in class: Yoga poses
 * LIFE LIST: We're almost done. Answer the 5 questions ( see Monday, Week 2 directions). You may add an image or two, if you'd like as well (not required)
 * Send the future you an email . Tell yourself at least three things you like about yourself! Use the site FutureMe.org
 * 7th graders - you graduate in 2016, 8th graders - you graduate in 2015
 * Make progress on your member page assignments #2,3,4


 * Tuesday**
 * Last day to work on Member page assignments 1- 4.
 * Finished? Begin assignments 5 and 6. We will begin presenting member pages to the class on Thursday.


 * Wednesday**
 * 8th grade at highschool. 4th Hour: Mason and Ms. Wilson to Meijer's for cookies.

Share Member pages! No Class: Relay for Life!
 * Thursday**
 * Typing Test**
 * Friday**


 * Week 3 **
 * Monday **
 * 7th hour you will Create your Wiki Member page! See Assignments link to the right, Assignment #1.
 * 5th and 7th hours: Make Progress on Assignments 1-3 on your member page.
 * Walk through settings.
 * A word about copyright.

**Tuesday** Fooling Around with Photoshop

Wednesday Workshop day!! Finished with your Life List and Vocab table? Have you pasted your top goal to our 4th or 7th hour Life List in Google Docs?

Thursday Typing Test Make progress on Member Page assignments # 1-4.

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> ** Fitness **(for example: I have on my list " complete a triathlon" so I will make the text orange because it falls into the Fitness category) > ** Travel **(seeing the world and the wonders in it) > ** Fun **(examples: snowboarding, buy a boat, go to the Olympics) > **Career** (types of jobs or business you'd like own) > ** Lifelong learning **(graduate college, learn to play the guitar, learn another language) > ** Philanthropy/Giving ** (take a missions trip to Haiti, give blood, help adults learn to read) > ** Family/Friends ** (have kids, be nicer to my siblings, do my chores without complaining) > > 1. What makes you happy? > 2. What activity could you do all day and never get bored doing? > 3. What is one skill you will need to master in order to accomplish some of the items you listed? > 4. What is something that could possibly prevent you from accomplishing your goals? > 5. Who do you look up to as a role model and why?
 * Week 2 **
 * Monday**
 * Student gmail accounts and google docs.**
 * Create a google document based on your life list. add 5 more items (you will have a total of 20)
 * Color code your list. change the text color to match the following categories. (If you're really organized, put all of the items of the same category together also)
 * at the bottom of your list answer these questions....type Q&A on your document...in complete sentencesmedia type="custom" key="8131406" align="right"


 * Tuesday**
 * 1) Sort out Passwords
 * 2) Make progress on Google Docs.


 * Wednesday**
 * Typing Practice.
 * Discussion Forum: "RU a techno geek? 1. Describe a technology of which you have a knowledge/mastery and your parents to not." For example, my mom cannot create digitally edited photographs but I am pretty good at using PhotoShop. 2. How did you learn those skills if your parents didn't teach you how to use it?"
 * watch together: [|Did You Know 4.0]
 * Did You Know 4.0 x2: as we watch a second time, use the flip side of your scratch paper to record words used in the movie that you don't know.
 * Generate Class technology vocabulary list.
 * Use Word to create a 2 column table. save file as "//LastName// Vocab". Column 1: word Column 2: definition. (Google Define and Text Msg to Google @ 466-453)


 * Thursday**
 * Typing Test Today!**
 * Create your Wiki Member page! See Assignments link to the right, Assignment #1.
 * Walk through settings.
 * A word about copyright.
 * Make progress on your Member Page Assignments.


 * Friday**
 * **Share our Life Lists!**
 * Create your Wiki Member page! See Assignments link to the right, Assignment #1.
 * Make Progress on Assignments 1-3 on your member page.

Week 1
Welcome to class!! Welcome to the future :)
 * M****onday**
 * Seating Chart
 * class tour ( the wiki and visit [|www.nvps.net/crossroads])
 * Parent letter: you must return a signed copy of the letter OR have your parents email me that they read it by FRIDAY
 * PowerPoint: Class Expectations and FAQS
 * Typing Goals and practice


 * Tuesday**
 * Typing Practice: Explore on-line games
 * Google Accounts: Who has one? Who needs one?
 * Password Management
 * Lab 101 Behavior and Expectations Revisited: Use Word to create a 2 column table.
 * 1st column (behavior/work in lab looks like)
 * 2nd column (behavior/work in lab sounds like)
 * After brainstorming individually, we will generate a class list.
 * Label your column headings.
 * Now have some fun! What can you do to beautify your table?
 * Share the Results!


 * Wednesday**
 * Typing Practice: On-line games or type to learn.
 * music video: Nickleback (lyrics)
 * Ask yourself: where am I headed? What do I want this year to be? Who do I want to be? What is important to me? and what does technology have to do with it all?
 * **Your Life List**: explore these sites to get some ideas:
 * National Geographic Ultimate Bucket List
 * lots of ideas for you to consider
 * Mrs Denton's list
 * Ms. Wilson's list
 * Complete Life List handout both sides.
 * Finish Word table from yesterday.


 * Thursday**


 * [|Typing Test Website]
 * record scores
 * Google Accounts: Who has one? Who needs one?
 * Password Management
 * Turn in Life List.
 * [|freerice.com]

Term3 Week 9 Monday
 * Finish presenting Google Presentations on Careers.

Tuesday Money, Money, Money: Now that you've found your perfect career, how much do you need to earn to meet your basic needs? What are your wants and needs?

[|5th Hour Class Wants and Needs]

[|7th Hour Class: WANTS and NEEDS?]


 * Make a budget: USE Google Templates FAMILY BUDGET
 * shop for a house and a car based on the estimates we calculate in class
 * calculate monthly payment
 * home insurance
 * utilities
 * electricity cost? usage calculator
 * natural gas? average rate
 * Average American Expenses
 * cost of car insurance premiums

Wednesday

Make Progress on your budget

Thursday

Week 8 Monday Tuesday
 * It's time for a typing test!
 * Google Presentations: Create a 6 to 10 page presentation using Google Presentations.
 * 1) Choose a career to research.
 * 2) Use Career Cruising as well as the internet to research information.
 * 3) Use google images and/or Microsoft Word to gather COPYRIGHT FREE images.
 * 4) Include the following pages:
 * 5) Title
 * 6) Career Description, including a picture
 * 7) Education/ training required, including a picture
 * 8) Different job placements, or types of jobs within the career, include a picture
 * 9) What you like and/ or dislike about the career, include a picture
 * 10) Career future outlook, including a graph or diagram
 * 11) Pages 7-10, any other information you want to share
 * [|Copyright]
 * Finish Creating your presentation.
 * Begin sharing presentations

Wednesday
 * Share Presentations

Thursday
 * Money, Money, Money
 * Now that you've found your perfect career, how much do you need to earn to meet your basic needs?
 * Make a budget.
 * Buy a car!

Friday
 * Buy a house!
 * What else do you need? Insurance, Health Care....