Career Pathways assignment

In a short paper, about 2 pages, you will answer 3 questions:
“What do you want to do in life?"
"How will you get there?"
"What will it look like when you get there?”

In the paper you must include:
- An introduction to a job or career you want for your life. And an explanation of why you want it.
- The pathway, or the steps you will take, from high school until you get there. (Do you have to go to college, community college, vocational school, graduate school; what kind of training/certification do you need?)
- A description of the job:
oWhat do people who do this job actually do day-to-day?
oWhere would you work? oHow much do people make doing this job?
oIs there a big demand for this job in the next few years?
oWhat is the job satisfaction like for this job?

Everyone must turn in a paper.

In addition, you must choose one creative outlet that represents your findings and conclusions in some way – A picture collage
A poster
A video
Photography
A mix CD
A skit
OR
ANYTHING ELSE CREATIVE OF YOUR CHOICE, JUST LET ME KNOW

We will talk more details about the creative part.

Money readings

Start here: "Scraping by on $150,000"

Audio Slideshow

Hello,

We will work with a program called Photo Story 3 to produce an audio slideshow in which you share parts of your life story. You can choose how much of it you want to share, but you need to include your name and your picture at the very beginning. You must also cover 7 of the 10 topics listed below.

The goal is to try and tell a compelling story about your life.

Photo Story 3 is an easy-to-use presentation program that you can use for a variety of other purposes, including senior project/other classes/slideshows for friends and family. We will use Photo Story 3 for other photography projects this year. You can also download it for free if you have a PC at home.

The questions you must address (at least 7 of 10):
1. Where are you from?
2. Describe your family.
3. Describe some of your interests.
4. Describe some of your beliefs.
5. Describe something that's really important to you.
6. Describe something difficult you’ve had to overcome in your life.
7. What are your future goals? What do you want to be?
8. Describe a really important memory.
9. Describe your favorite food.
10. Describe something that most people don’t know about you.
11. In addition to picking 7 of the 10 topics above, you can also talk about whatever else you'd like.

What you will need:
- Photos of yourself and your family/friends/pets/items. You can take them yourself with your own digital camera, or you can bring your photos in and we can scan them at school.
- Pictures off the Internet representing your life/your hobbies/your interests/etc.
- A song or some kind of music/some kind of sound – whatever is most appropriate for you, whatever works for you – to serve as background. You can "create" music on Photo Story 3.
- A microphone, provided, that you can use to narrate your story.

What you will turn in:
- Final Project: A two- to three-minute Photo Story 3 slideshow due Wednesday, April 25 at the end of class. We will play all slideshows in class.