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2032 Project

WHAT YOU ARE RESEARCHING:


For your general field (career pathway):
  • Employment and salary trends for your field 
  • Employment trends by geography for your field
For specific related jobs within your career pathway:
  • Job descriptions/qualifications including training and education for each specific job
  • Rationale for choosing a specific job
  • How each specific job relates to your wider career path
  • Geography and salary trends for each specific job
  • How demographics, politics, technology or globalization might influence the path of your jobs or your field

GETTING STARTED WITH RESEARCH:

1.Open Firefox.  Login to  Noodle Tools and Naviance in other tabs. 

2. In Noodle Tools, create a new MLA Project called "[your name] 2032 project" and share to the dropbox called 2032 Project [Brown, Lau-Seim, DeHart or Walden] period [x]

3. In Naviance, click on the About Me tab, then the Favorite Careers and Clusters link.


4. Select ONE pathway that seems interesting to you. Click the Add this pathway to your list button.


5. Take notes from the Overview and Employment Outlook section in Noodle Tools. 


6. Click on Related Careers. Pick the career that looks most interesting from this list. 


7. Look at the career you picked. Take notes on Noodle Tools from the Knowledge & Skills, Tasks & Activities, and Wages tabs. 


8. Repeat step 7 for 2-4 other related careers. 

9. Find more info, including future prospects for each career at: http://www.bls.gov/oco/












Artists of the Romantic Era

Step One...Explore the work of the artists below...make sure to explore between categories


MUSICIANS

Click to listen to a Bach Minuet. Notice how formal, stiff, mathematical and dainty it sounds.This was from the early 1700s.

Now listen to music by musicians of the Romantic Era:  Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky.

Notice how bold and dramatic these sound compared to the Bach.

PAINTERS

Click to look at examples of pre-Romantic era paintings such as Vermeer, Velasquez, and Rembrandt. Notice that these are very realistic paintings of people and settings. They are formal and use "realistic" colors.

Now take a look at some galleries (on the right of the pages) of painters of the Romantic Era such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Rodin.

Notice the use of colors and Impressionistic technique.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Click on the image to start a slide show of the work of Louis Daguerre

AUTHORS

Watch a summary of the novel Middlemarch by George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evans. Notice that the music playing in the background is Beethoven!

Watch the trailer for the movie version of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables. Les Miserable is the story of the struggles of poor French during the time of the French Revolution.

Watch a short documentary about William Wordsworth. It talks about his political beliefs and his interest in the new style of Romantic poetry.

Step Two...Pick FOUR (4) of the artists, at least one from EACH category. READ the short Bios below for each of the people you picked:

Bios of Musicians: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky

Bios of Writers: Hugo, Eliot/Evans, Wordsworth

Bios of Visual Artists: Daguerre, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Rodin









Mental Disorders - IHS Final

Find information about mental disorders at the Mayo Clinic Website. Use the search box.


Click here to watch 5 videos about 4 different mental disorders.


Imperialism Mini-Research Project

Click here and then locate a video about your country.

Watch it. What can you infer about your country in terms of language, religion and imperialistic history?

CIA World FactBook

BBC Country Profiles

US Department of State - country background pages - search by region or use the A-Z list

New York Times country news pages - use drop down list on right

Use Wikipedia for background knowledge only. Do not take notes directly from Wikipedia. Follow its references back to the original source. 

POSTER SPECIFICATIONS:

Your poster should be titled with the name of your colony & explain in bullet points:

o     The name of the country(s) that controlled your colony & the approx. dates of control.

o     The motives of the imperial nation.

o     The methods used to control the colony.

o     The effects of imperialism on the economic, political & cultural life of the colony.

o     Two pictures or drawings that illustrate your points

o     One map showing the location of the colony.

o     A list of your sources in MLA format.  (you can use Noodle Tools to help you do this, but you are not sharing to a dropbox).



Final Sophomore WH/Naviance/Noodle Tools Practice

PART ONE (5 minutes) - 5 POINTS

1. Log in to Naviance. Go to the About Me tab of Naviance and click on Personality Type to review your inventory results. 
2. Scroll down to Potential careers and majors for you to consider. Choose a career that you are interested in from the left-hand column and click on it.
3. On the overview page for the career you selected, scroll down to Related Career Clusters and Pathways. The Career Cluster(s) are listed in bold. Click on it (or if there is more than one Cluster listed, click the one of most interest to you).
4. Click on the box right under the name of the Cluster marked "Add this cluster to your list."

PART TWO - VALID SOURCES AND CITING PRACTICE - 10 points


The point of this assignment is to prove you know what valid, trustworthy sources are and can cite them correctly. You may want to refer to the library's Research Resources page for this assignment.

1. Look at the list of famous people below.  The one thing they have in common is that they each followed a unique and unpredictable career path. CHOOSE ONE PERSON to find information about.

2. Find two VALID sources about this person's career path. You might want to think of search terms you can search for such as "career path" "career changes" "biography" and you might want to think of using domain limiters such as site:.edu.  You can also try a biography database from one of the public libraries.

3. Cite each source correctly in Noodle Tools in the same Project you created last time.
Fill in all required info. (ask for help if you are not sure what to fill in or where to find the info)
Make sure to CLICK CHECK FOR ERRORS
Then fix your errors.

4. In the Annotation Box just jot down some of the info you found about the person's career path.

5. GRADING:
-You will receive 3 points for each valid source
-You will receive 1 points for citing the source in the correct format with no errors
-You will receive 1 point for the info in the Annotation Box

So you can earn a total of 5 points per citation, and you are doing a total of 2 citations.

LIST OF PEOPLE:

Martha Stewart (Media Personality and Businesswoman)
Julia Child (TV Chef)
Oprah (TV Host)
Dan Brown (author of The DaVinci Code)
Christina Perrin (fashion designer)
Philip Glass (music composer)
Barack Obama (President)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (former Governor of CA)
Steve Jobs (cofounder of Apple computers)
Janet Robinson (CEO of the New York Times)
Taryn Rose (shoe designer)
Albert Einstein (scientist)
Ken Jeong (actor)
Colonel Sanders (founder of KFC)







Sophomore World History Noodle Tools Notecards Practice: Naviance Personality Inventory Results


Last time you were in the library with your World History Teacher, you completed a Personality Inventory on Naviance. Ms. Burns wants to make sure that you get a chance to really understand your results. Ms. Oremland and your History and English teachers want to make sure that you know how to complete a Noodle Tools note card correctly so that when you find information, you are able to understand it and use it effectively.

Your assignment will be worth a total of 20 points. Your job is to take REALLY GOOD notes in Noodle Tools on your Naviance results that answer the below questions.  You have a total of 4 notecards to make.

GETTING STARTED:

Log into Naviance. Go to the About Me tab of Naviance and click on Personality Type to review your results

Log into Noodle Tools and create a New Project. Share it with the appropriate drop box from the choices below:

Lau-Seim WH practice 2,5, or 6
Brown WH practice 3,4,7
K Dehart WH practice per 1, 2, or 4
Walden WH practice per 6

Then cite the Naviance page you are looking at (Personality Type) - you will add your note cards to this citation.

1. What did Naviance tell you in the Understanding you section?
Create at least 3 cards and use the My Ideas section to explain how true this information seems to you.

You will get 1 point for each good, specific card title, 1 point for each chunk of information you put in the Quotation section, 1 point for each good paraphrase and 2 points for a good My Ideas section. That's a total of 5 points per card, and 15 points for this part of the assignment.

2. What did Naviance tell you in the For a Career to be Satisfying to you section?
Create at least 1 card and use the My Ideas section to explain how true this information seems to you.

You will get 1 point for a good, specific card title, 1 point for the chunk of information you put in the Quotation section, 1 point for a good paraphrase and 2 points for a good My Ideas section. That's a total of 5 points for this part of the assignment.


Read some Awesome Non-Fiction!


Two ways to look for a book you will love:

1) Browse this list of shelf categories. Take a look at the subjects on the list. Circle or write down the ones that appeal to you. Then go to the corresponding shelf and browse for books. You can ask Ms. Oremland or your teacher to help you choose between ones you have discovered. 

2) Go to the Library Catalog and explore books by topic. Here's what to do:

Click here: 

Click on the subject that interests you the most. Click on a title to read a summary of the book. It will tell you how many pages the book is, too. You can also see whether the book is checked In or Out. 

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