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Language Level Grade Date Minutes
Unit
Career Connections
 For which careers do I need to be multi-lingual?
Unit Theme and Question  In which careers would knowing multiple languages (including English) be a benefit?
 Which professions/jobs are valued in the United States?

Valued careers in America


Daily topic:

STANDARDS LESSON OBJECTIVES


Which modes of Students can:
communication will be
addressed?
 Recognize careers that are valued and/or desirable in the United States.
 Interpersonal
 Identify the salary range for at least one selected career.
What are the communicative Communication  Identify the projected jobs & unemployment rate for at least one
and cultural objectives for the and  Interpretive selected career.
lesson?
Cultures  Presentational

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

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CCSS.ELA.SL.9-10.1.
Common Core Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

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.

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Materials  Resources 
Time
Activity/Activities Technology
*
Lesson Sequence What will learners do? Be specific. What materials will
How many
What does the teacher do? you develop? What materials will
minutes will
you bring in from other sources?
this segment
At the start of class, teacher will ask students to share with their tables the take? Bilingual career graphic organizer
two additional bilingual skills they came up with as homework. Once they
Gain Attention / Activate have shared these, they will then be asked to discuss the following 5 min Whiteboard/markers
Prior Knowledge question at their tables: “What makes a career valuable?” Both of these
discussion topics will be written on the board. Teacher will take
attendance while students complete this.
Students will be organized into small groups (no more than 4). The room 27 min Laptops
will be set up with one laptop on each of the 9 tables, each with an image (approx. 3 Health Care Career Images
set of the highest ranked jobs from a different job industry. With the min/set) Business Career Images
Provide Input teacher’s guidance, students will rotate to each station (with their groups) Engineering Career Images
to look at each image set. Before students begin the activity, the teacher Education Career Images
will explain to students that the jobs/careers they are about to look at are Construction Career Images
considered to be the most valued within their respected industries. STEM Career Images
Technology Career Images
Creative Career Images
Science Career Images
As students look through each set, students will be asked to pick one 27 min Laptops
image that stands out the most to them. Students will rotate who chooses (happening along Health Care Career Images
Elicit Performance / Provide the image in their group as they rotate stations. For the image chosen, with input) Business Career Images
Feedback students will be asked to discuss the following questions (written on the Engineering Career Images
board): Education Career Images
• Who is in the image? Construction Career Images
• What is happening in the image? STEM Career Images
• What do you notice about each person? Technology Career Images
• What kind of place is this? Creative Career Images
As students discuss, teacher will walk around and monitor conversations, Science Career Images
providing assistance as needed.

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Once students have rotated through all of the stations, students will 5 min Laptop
be asked to each grab a laptop. Teacher will guide students to the Health Care Career Images
class website (typically Haiku, but for the purpose of this lesson, I Business Career Images
Provide Input will use my teacher site) where the links to all the image sets will Engineering Career Images
be available, along with the supplemental information that goes Education Career Images
along with it. Construction Career Images
STEM Career Images
Technology Career Images
Creative Career Images
Science Career Images

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

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As students prepare to leave class for the day, they will be asked to revisit 5 min Exit card slips
the question that they discussed at the beginning of the period: what Pens/pencils
makes a career valuable? Students will be asked to consider the careers
Closure they looked at, and based on what they now know about the top valued
careers in America, write down their response on an Exit Card. Teacher
will collect cards as students leave.
Homework: Students will be asked to select one of the three careers they HW Padlet Board (need to get
researched further, and display the information they wrote down on a subscription code from school; I am
Enhance Retention & Padlet post. Students will be able to look at their peer’s responses the out of free boards)
Transfer following day when the teacher displays the Padlet on the overhead
projector.

Reflection – Notes to Self


 What worked well? Why?
 What didn’t work? Why?
 What changes would you
make if you taught this
lesson again?
 ????

* 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.

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