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Choosing a Career Research for Knowledge

Choosing a Career Research for Knowledge. In this section of the test, you are asked to look at some reference materials and then use the materials to answer some questions . Research Topic: Choosing a Career

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Choosing a Career Research for Knowledge

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  1. Choosing a CareerResearch for Knowledge

  2. In this section of the test, you are asked to look at some reference materials and then use the materials to answer some questions. Research Topic: Choosing a Career Suppose you were assigned to write a report on choosing a career. You need to find out various aspects of different careers. Six different sources of information about different careers are contained in this section of the test. The information sources are listed below.* Skim all of the resources to become familiar with the information they contain. Remember that these are reference sources, so you should not read every word in each source. Once you have skimmed these sources, answer the questions that follow. *Portions of the resources are provided on the following slides. We will view the questions first in order to locate the resource then write the page number where the resource is located.

  3. Use the information sources to help you answer the questions. As you work through the questions, go back and read the sections that will give you the information you need. 1. Excerpt from a Book, Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices a. Flowchart (page 92) b. “Read All About It” (pages 93-94) 2. Excerpt from a Book Your Dream Job and How to Find It (pages 95-96) 3. Web Site Information from JobSurf.com (pages 97-98) 4. Table of Contents from a Book Snoop for a Living: Becoming a Private Investigator (page 99) 5. Interview from Taking the Fall (pages 100-101)

  4. Grade 8: Practice Skills for LEAP 21 Louisiana Department of Education 1. Excerpt from a Book Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices a. Flowchart

  5. Grade 8: Practice Skills for LEAP 21 Louisiana Department of Education 1. Excerpt from a Book Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices b. “Read All About It” Now that you have performed the self-evaluation and you have a good idea of your interests and talents, the next step is to start your research (described in more detail in Chapter 3). At the end of this chapter, you will find a list of suggestions for beginning your research project, along with a list of books recommended for further reading. This project encourages you to read about careers that interest you. Your goal is to gather as much information as possible in order to start making some decisions about career directions.

  6. Grade 8: Practice Skills for LEAP 21 Louisiana Department of Education 2. Excerpt from a Book Your Dream Job and How to Find It ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ 9 to 5? No Way! I remember feeling sorry for my parents as they went to work every weekday. They left at the same time in the morning and came home at the same time in the evening. The thought of entering into a similar routine was simply unthinkable. My parents didn't have boring jobs, and I know they enjoyed their work, my father as an aeronautics engineer with NASA, and my mother as a teacher. But the idea of the robotic routine of daily toil put me off getting a regular job for a long time. Oh, I worked: as a waitress, cooking for hundreds of campers at a mountain summer camp, as a tutor, as a lifeguard, even on the swing shift at a local candy factory. But I avoided the 9 to 5 as if it were a contagious disease.

  7. Grade 8: Practice Skills for LEAP 21 Louisiana Department of Education 3. Internet Web Site Information from JobSurf.com

  8. Grade 8: Practice Skills for LEAP 21 Louisiana Department of Education 4. Table of Contents from Snoop for a Living: Becoming a Private Investigator Acknowledgments ……………………………………………….viii Introduction ………………………………………………………..ix PART ONE: What Is a Private Investigator? 1. Do You Have What It Takes (What Does It Take?) ..... 7 2. A Day in the Life of a Snoop …………………………...22 3. Warning: Danger Ahead ………………………………..38

  9. Grade 8: Practice Skills for LEAP 21 Louisiana Department of Education 5. Interview from Taking the Fall Recently this inquiring mind had the opportunity to catch up with a Hollywood stunt double, now filming on location in Mexico. I got to learn about the career path of a stunt double—and more. Q: Did you always know that you wanted to do stunts? A: No, doing stunts wasn’t actually something…

  10. Multiple-Choice Questions 1 point each (8 points total)

  11. 1. In the flowchart from Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices, you would go to art school if you wanted to be… A. an architect. B. a window dresser. C. a chef. D. a film critic. • B. window dresser

  12. 2. Which source would most likely lead you to information about how to interview for a job? • A. Taking the Fall interview. • B. jobsurf.com. • C. Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices flowchart. • D. Your Dream Job and How to Find It. • B. jobsurf.com

  13. 3. Under which heading of Your Dream Job and How to Find It would you find out about the difficulties of having an unusual career? A. 9 to 5? No Way! B. Get Paid to Eat Ice Cream C. When You Work for Yourself, You’re Always at Work D. The World Beckons • C. When You Work for Yourself, You’re Always at Work

  14. 4. In which section of jobsurf.com should you first look to find information about careers that include travel? • A. Careers of the Week • B. Never-Ending List of Careers • C. Additional Reading • D. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About • D. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About

  15. 5. Which section of Snoop for a Living: Becoming a Private Investigator includes true stories about private investigating? A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Appendices • D. Appendices

  16. 6. Through which source can you apply for a job? A. jobsurf.com B. Taking the Fall interview C. Your Dream Job and How to Find It D. Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices excerpt • A. jobsurf.com

  17. 7. According to the flowchart from Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices, if a person wants to become a wedding consultant, he/she should begin with a • A. personal services internship. • B. visual arts art school. • C. fashion/ interior art school. • D. humanities college. • A. personal services internship.

  18. 8. What advice does the stunt double give about doing stunts for a living in Taking the Fall? • A. Don’t look at the camera. • B. Join a circus. • C. Become physically fit. • D. Specialize in free-falls. • C. Become physically fit.

  19. B. window dresser • B. jobsurf.com • C. “When you Work…” • D. Everything You Ever… • D. Appendices • A. jobsurf.com • A. personal service internships • C. become physically fit Multiple Choice:1 point each(8 points total)

  20. 9. What are two sources that would be most helpful when you are first beginning your career choice research? Explain your response. SAMPLE RESPONSE: Two sources that would be most helpful when beginning my career choice research are the flowchart and the excerpt from Which Way Now? Creative Career Choices and the excerpt from the book Your Dream Job and How to Find It. These two sources are most helpful because-of the sources listed-they contain the most basic information about job possibilities. 9. CR, 2 points

  21. 10. According to the interview from Taking the Fall, what is the most significant difference between being a gymnast and a stunt double? Use textual evidence to support your response. SAMPLE RESPONSE: According to Taking the Fall, the presence of a camera is the most significant difference between being a gymnast and a stunt double. After being asked about the most significant difference between the two, the stunt double states, “Well, the camera is one thing. You never have that as a gymnast.” 10. CR, 2 points

  22. MISSED POINTS: 1- 92 Advanced 2- 83 Mastery 3- 75Basic 4- 67 Basic 5- 58 Basic 6- 50 U 7- 42 U 8- 33 U 9- 25 U 10- 17 U 11- 8 U 12- 0 U Research for Knowledge Choosing a Career12 points possible

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