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__**Wednesday, March 23rd**__ __**What will we learn?**__
 * We can begin thinking about the "Big Idea" that entrepreneur may have for a business
 * We can present our designs to the class of our "Big Ideas"
 * We can present our "Big Ideas" to the class in our "pitches"
 * We can create a prototype of our product to show the class

__**Your Task:**__

Today, for Careers class, you are going to start thinking like Entrepreneurs (running your own business).It is going to be up to you to come up with an idea from scratch, create a prototype (sample of the product), and then have the opportunity to sell this product around the school in order to gain more $$$$.

At a date we will choose later on, you will be selling these products to the elementary classes.

There will be so rules to follow as you are coming up with your ideas:

1. You may work in any denomination of people up to a maximum of 5, in your group (this means you could work by yourself, partner, three, four, five) 2. All products must be school appropriate and must be approved by Mr. Young 3. You must design a prototype of your product that will be looked over with Mr. Young 4. Prototype costs will be paid back to you, through the school, to a maximum of $10 (please keep all receipts or nothing will be paid back to you. That's business!) 5. You will need to come up with a list of ways to advertise your product to customers. Create a list of how you will do that, within our school. 6. Based on your ideas for 5, you will need to come up with a presentation that you will use as a form of advertisement for the elementary students. What will this look like? The presentation can last no more that 2 minutes and 30 seconds. I strongly suggest you start putting this together. 7. You will need to come up with a company name and a logo. What will you use to make the logo? Oh look Computers. Oh look, the phones in your hands.


 * TODAY, my bet is that the majority of the time will be coming up with ideas for your business. Where will you go and look for ideas? hmmmmmm, maybe those computers in front of you might be able to help you out. USE THEM! **


 * We will discuss more after Easter Break! **

__**Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015, Monday, January 4th, 2016**__ __**Your Task:**__

Go to the following link: www.saskcareers.ca/industries

__**1st Job:**__
 * Open up a Word document
 * Choose three jobs for the following industries that are listed (take your time and explore)
 * In the Word Document include these details.

1. Name of job 2. How many people employed in Saskatchewan 3. How much is the average wage for Saskatchewan 4. Employment Requirements (found in the How to Get There section) 5. SAVE YOUR DOCUMENT!

__**2nd Job**__:
 * Create a short (2 minute presentation) that highlights the three jobs that have chosen
 * Information should include the information listed in Job #1
 * Why you think that would be a cool job for you
 * We will begin presenting on Wednesday, January 6th



__**Wednesday, November 25th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can develop the skills of having a successful interview
 * We can practice going through the process of having an interview
 * We can look at different guiding questions that interviewers may have
 * We can practice the skills of answering different kind of interview questions

__**How we will learn it**__ Today's job??? We will be creating a bank of questions that an interviewer may have for us. This is our job:

1. Create the bank of questions based on your hunting for questions online 2. Print off the bank of questions 3. Give some time to practice on our own 4. Practice with a partner on how we would answer those questions

As we go through the next few weeks, you will be doing A LOT of talking! Hope you're good with that!

Have a great rest of the day!



__**Monday, October 26th to Wednesday, November 23rd, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can examine and discuss the qualities of an effective resume
 * We can create our own personal resumes using all of the elements that make it effective
 * We can use our proofreading skills (self and partner) to look for errors in spelling, punctuation, and formatting

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, October 26th:**__ Today we are going to be spending the hour looking at what you need to be including on a complete resume. There are a number of different components to building a resume that is complete and will make you stand out from all the other resumes that might end up on an employer's desk. First up, let's take a look at some tips to building a complete resume:

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Next, we will be taking a look a site that will help you in building your perfect resume. This site does a great job of breaking apart all of the pieces of a resume and what each section should include:

Resume Wikispace

__**Wednesday, October 28th to Wednesday, November 4th**:__ Today, we are continuing to work on building our resumes.

I would encourage you that as you go through the wikispace for building resumes, that you have the example resume opened up, so that you can use it as a template in creating your own personal resume. Please note that I have uploaded this file in .doc format so that you can edit it right from the document. Please make sure to save this resume to your "Z Drive". You will be printing these off before the end of the week.



We will give you some more time next week to complete your resumes and turn them in so that I can give you an evaluation. here's the rubric I will be using to evaluate:



Have an awesome weekend!



__ **Wednesday, September 2nd, 9th, 16th, 21st, 2015** __ __ **What are we learning?** __
 * We can go over our course outline and rules of the road
 * We can discuss the procedures for our class
 * We can examine the qualities of a beginning entrepreneur
 * We can begin thinking about the "Big Idea" that entrepreneur may have for a business
 * We can present our designs to the class of our "Big Ideas"

__ **How we will learn it** __ __ **Wednesday, Septembe****r** __ ** __2nd__: ** Welcome back! Hope you all had an awesome summer! Today, we are going to be going over our course outline and then we will be diving into discussing the "Big Idea" of being an Entrepreneur. Here is the course outline, for the year:



Today, we will be looking at what it means to be an beginning entrepreneur. We all love food so your first task is to create a restaurant that would be geared toward teenagers in high school. There are some things that you will need to think about:


 * 1. The Food (what will you serve. please include appetizers menu, main course menu and dessert menu with descriptions) **


 * 2. The Environment (what will your place look like? What would bring people in? Can you find pictures?) **


 * 3. The Prices (how much would you charge for food and environment) **

You are allowed to use the computers to help you out in creating your presentation. You are allowed to work with a partner or by yourself.

We will continue with this, next week!