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 CURRICULUM

Career and Job Opportunities

Unit Overview

WRITING FOR A VARIETY OF CAREER AND WORKPLACE COMMUNICATIONS

  10th grade
  Two weeks - six lessons
  Business writing, resume, job application, cover letter
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment job portfolio)
  Glossary

 Unit Plan: Lessons

Each session represents one 50-minute class period.  Students

  author’s use of information and logic through word choice Word HTML (with links to documents)
composing and analyzing text for a variety of written career and workplace communications Word HTML (with links to documents)
  appropriate format, style, and word choice, focusing on written career and workplace communications Word HTML (with links to documents)
  appropriate format, style, and word choice impacting tone; on sentence structures for a variety of career and workplace written communications Word HTML (with links to documents)
  composing a variety of sentence structures for career and workplace communications Word HTML (with links to documents)
  edit and correct artifacts Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

  How can a job search plan prepare you for employment?
  Why is it important to explore both job options and job search methods?
  How can sentence structure and document style enhance your job application portfolio? 
  How can awareness of audience and purpose affect written communication in career and workplace?
  How can word usage affect the overall impact of your writing?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

           Students complete constructed response items and complete two performance events (evaluating another student’s portfolio and writing a final letter
          of comment on the other student’s job portfolio).  

Teacher support: After completing the job portfolio scoring guide (both student and teacher), the teacher will compare student score to the teacher score in order to
determine the grade for this assessment.  Discrepant, as mentioned on the bottom of the Job Portfolio Scoring Guide, is defined as scores that are more than one number
apart (i.e., student score two and teacher score zero).  This type of discrepancy indicates a need for further review.

  Part I, II, and III Scoring Guide
    Portfolio Scoring Guide

Reflection and Bibliography:

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

R3C: Use details from the text(s) to:

analyze and evaluate the logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal of arguments in text 

identify and analyze faulty reasoning and unfounded inferences 

evaluate for accuracy and adequacy of evidence 

analyze and evaluate the author's use of information and logic to express his or her ideas through

word choice

comprehensiveness of detail selection

organizational patterns

evaluate proposed solutions

 

R3C:  (CA 3, 1.6, 2.4) Use details from the text(s) to:   

analyze and evaluate the logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal of arguments in text 

identify and analyze faulty reasoning and unfounded inferences 

Evaluate for accuracy and adequacy of evidence

analyze and evaluate the author’s use of information and logic to express his or her ideas through

word choice

comprehensiveness of detail selection

organizational patterns

evaluate proposed solutions

 

R3C:  Use details from the text(s) to:
analyze and evaluate the logic, reasonableness, and audience appeal of arguments in texts 

identify and analyze faulty reasoning and unfounded inferences 

evaluate for accuracy and adequacy of evidence 

analyze and evaluate the author's use of information and logic to express his or her ideas through

word choice

comprehensiveness of detail selection

organizational pattern
 

evaluate proposed solutions

 

W2F:  In composing text, use:

a variety of sentence structures
cohesive devices 
active voice 

 W2F:  (CA 3, 4, 2.1, 2.2)   In composing text, use: 

a variety of sentence structures 
cohesive devices 
active voice
 

W2F:      In composing text, use: 

a variety of sentence structures
cohesive devices 
active voice construction

W3E:  Compose texts for:

a variety of career and workplace communications (e.g., job application, resume, cover letter, college application essay, thank-you note, follow-up note, forms, project proposal, brochure, and/or concise directions

 various audiences and purposes, selecting and applying appropriate format, style, tone, and point of view

 

W3E:  (CA 3, 4, 2.1, 2.2)  Compose texts for: 

a variety of career and workplace communications (e.g., job application, resume, cover letter, college application essay, thank-you note, follow-up note, forms, project proposal, brochure, and/or concise directions)

 various audiences and purposes, selecting and applying appropriate format, style, tone, and point of view 

W3E:  Compose texts for:  

a variety of career and workplace communications (e.g., job application, resume, cover letter, college application essay, thank-you note, follow-up note, forms, project proposal, brochure and/or concise directions)

 various audiences and purposes, selecting and applying appropriate format, style, tone and point of view

 
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Division of School Improvement - Curriculum Services
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Phone: 573-751-2625

Revised: February 20, 2006
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