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Students will make connections between the careers that are desired in the United States and the careers
Connections that interest them.
Students will compare the salaries and hiring rates of different careers across multiple industries.
If applicable, indicate how Comparisons
Connections Comparisons
Communities Common Core
will be part of your lesson. Communities
CCSS.ELA.SL.9-10.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g.,
visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated
question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources
on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Students will be asked to select the three careers they are most 10 min Laptops
interested in, and in their writer’s notebooks, write down the Writer’s Notebooks
Elicit Performance / Provide following information for each career: Pens/pencils
Feedback Number of projected jobs Health Care Career Images
Median salary Business Career Images
Unemployment rate Engineering Career Images
As students complete this in their notebooks, teacher will walk Education Career Images
Construction Career Images
around to monitor, as well as provide assistance to struggling
STEM Career Images
students. Teacher will encourage students to find and record this
Technology Career Images
information for their top three choices, but if students are only able Creative Career Images
to do this for 1-2 careers, that is also ok. Science Career Images
* Remember that the maximum attention span of the learner is approximately the age of the learner up to 20 minutes. The initial lesson cycle (gain
attention/activate prior knowledge, provide input and elicit performance/provide feedback) should not take more than 20 minutes. The second cycle
(provide input and elicit performance/provide feedback) should be repeated as needed and will vary depending on the length of the class period.