A Failure to Communicate
Students will use effective communication skills to work together to create a satisfactory and logical presentation on information technology facts and findings since clear communication is essential in the workplace, particulary in IT.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Accessory After the Fact—Tending to Editing and Word Choice
To edit writing to meet standard English conventions that are essential for clear understanding across English-speaking populations, in particular, for college and/or career success.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Being a Good Employee
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to analyze passages of workplace text so that they can decipher benefits information and company policies.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Benchmarks: How Interviews Drive the Hiring Process
Students need to understand and be prepared for the interview process for job placement.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Commas and Dashes in Workplace Writing
Students will learn to use correct punctuation in workplace writings to improve their employability skills.
GED Content Areas
- Language
- Writing
Compare and Contrast with the Battle of Gettysburg
The purpose of this lesson is to compare and contrast two view points of a text so that students understand that view point may affect information portrayed in writing.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Comparing Arguments Between Texts: To Build or Not to Build?
Today’s lesson will help students evaluate the support for a given argument. Students will also use the skill of reading and comparing two sources to determine which has the strongest argument and the most support--a skill that they will later use in numerous real-life situations. It also emphasizes the necessity of removing personal bias in decision-making.These skills will help them be successful on the GED RLA extended response portion of the test.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Complete and Partial Baths
The purpose of this lesson is for teach students how to properly bathe a long-term patient by means of a complete or partial bath. They will learn and practice the procedures of both types.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Consider the Source-Exploring Effects of Point of View, Worldview, and Life Experiences
To develop an understanding of the effect of point of view and point of reference on meaning.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Construction & Trades: Career Exploration
Since the construction and trades sector is growing and jobs are becoming available, students should explore the types of jobs available in this career pathway.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Creating a Resume
Students will learn the requirements to writing a competitive resume, which will more readily get the student an interview with the employer.GED Content Areas
- Writing
Employee Performance and Etiquette
Students will learn the various ways they can interact professionally in the workplace and identify an area that needs improvement.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Expert Testimony-- Research and Compilation of Data to Support a Claim
To research, plan, and write a rough draft of a paper on a given topic as a means to compare/contrast sources and information
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Extended Response
Skills like being able to analyze various types of media as well as comparing and contrasting are important in today’s workplace.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Fiction Writing Lab
The purpose of this lesson is for students to deepen their understanding of point of view by applying what they have learned to create their own short story. By writing and expressing the point of view from a character of their own creation, students will be able to develop a deep understanding of what it means to look at the world from a different perspective while at the same time synthesizing and applying what they already know of narrator’s point of view and a character’s point of view. Students will have to write with a consistent point of view for their story to make sense, and will have opportunities to give and receive peer feedback, simulating a workplace experience. By continuing with our theme of coal, students will be able to learn more about coal and at the same time, have the opportunity to express themselves and be creative.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
First-Person View, the Holocaust, and Japanese Internment Camps
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the necessary strategies to compare two topics and form an opinion supported by facts so that they can clearly express their ideas.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Forklift Safety
Manufacturing safety should be a priority. According to the latest statistics from OSHA, 12 fatal injuries occur on a daily basis.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
GED Extended Response Lesson 2: Writing the Introduction
Students will learn how to craft an introduction for an RLA extended response for the GED exam. This skill is important because the RLA ER is a significant portion of the overall exam score.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
GED Extended Response Lesson 3: Writing the Body & Conclusion
Students will learn to organize their extended responses with topic sentences, support their claims with evidence from the text, and add their own commentary and analysis in order to be successful on the writing portion of the GED exam.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
GED Extended Response Lesson 4: Revising and Scoring Your Essay
Students seeking to earn their GED credential will benefit from an in-depth look into the key components of the rubric for Trait 1 (Creation of Arguments and Use of Evidence) and Trait 2 (Development of Ideas and Organizational Structure). An understanding of the rubric is essential to a well-written essay.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
GED Success Stories and Steps to Higher Education
Students will determine the key steps to beginning higher education courses. This lesson seeks to encourage students to earn their GEDs and pursue higher education degrees, certificates, or training.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It
The purpose of the lesson is to help students to more readily understand the construction of an essay in an IT context by conducting a research project on coding languages. If students are able to successfully conduct research, understand the text, and summarize it, then the student will more readily understand the basic requirements an entery-level position within the workforce as well.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Gettin' Real With Gettysburg
The purpose of this text is to help students understand the meaning of a text, taking into account the author’s point of view, the purpose of the text, and the audience the text is geared towards. This is essential to being able to increase reading comprehension skills for real life and workplace such as insurance paperwork, legal documentation, owner’s manuals, and policy books.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Go, See, Do!
The purpose of this lesson is to provide authentic opportunities to promote a location in an audible and visual format.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Active Listening and Checking for Understanding
Students will practice active listening and checking for understanding skills in order to better communicate with the people they might interact with in health care settings.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Diagnostic Questioning OLD CARTS AND SOAP Notes
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and questioning skills related to medical diagnoses.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: What Are the Careers and What Do The Careers Involve?
Students will explore the types of jobs available in the diagnostic services pathway of a health science career cluster in order to encourage students to pursue one of these careers.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Ability to Work as a Team (Introduction to Teams Part 1)
Why is this topic important to the learner?
To become successful health care workers, students must understand the importance of working as a team in therapeutic healthcare services.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Ability to Work as a Team (Introduction to Teams Part 2)
Why is this topic important to the learner?
This topic is important in that effective communication, conflict resolution, and teamwork are necessary skills to succeed in therapeutic healthcare services.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: What Are The Careers and What Do They Involve?
Why is this topic important to the learner?
Since the health care sector is growing and jobs are becoming available, students should explore the types of jobs available in the therapeutic services pathway of health science careers.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
How the Industrial Revolution Leads to the Roaring Twenties
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to explain the impact of the Industrial Revolution/Roaring Twenties on the US economy and society.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Introduction to the Study Guide
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the needed skills and procedures to become a SRNA.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Is it Poetic Justice—Interpreting Literature
To expose students to a wider variety of reading materials in order to improve close reading and inference skills.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Just the Facts, Ma’am—Explicit Meanings of Texts
To improve literal analyses of texts across media, including identifying facts that support the main idea. Objective, careful reading and listening will ultimately improve their own speaking and writing skills.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Make a Salt Map
The purpose of this lesson is to build skills in wayfinding - finding our way from one place to another, such as, traveling the subway in New York City during a vacation. This lesson will enable students to learn how to research, evaluate and visually analyze needed data to develop a coherent understanding of maps, to develop spatial reasoning skills and an understanding of map symbols and conventions.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
My Bedside Manners: Putting Thoughts into Written Word
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to share through a written, technology platform different approaches to health care situations to encourage professional growth while, at the same time, demonstrating evidential use of workplace text or other scientific, informational text and proper writing conventions.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
My POV About Surface Mining
This lesson gives students the opportunity to practice and apply what they have learned about point of view, author’s claims, and evidence up to this point. Students will be able to express their own point of view about surface mining by gathering evidence, which will expand their content knowledge as well. This also translates to the workplace when students will have to express themselves in writing and/or argue specific issues related to their job.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Opinion: 911 Attacks and the Patriot Act
The purpose of this lesson is to assess students’ ability to synthesize information and present an opinion with valid reasoning and support so that students develop clear thinking patterns and expression of ideas.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Organizing a Work Correspondence
Students will use basic organization in writing to create a coherent workplace correspondence. Students must develop their writing and communication skills so that they will be able to communicate important information for their future jobs.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Part 1 of Essay on a Goal Achiever
Students will find relevant articles about a person who achieved a great goal. Students will analyze the articles for credibility and usefulness and use those articles to answer questions about the person. The students will write an informative essay on the person in a subsequent lesson. This lesson is important in that it will hopefully inspire students to set and achieve their own goals. This lesson will help students build their writing skills.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Part 2 of Essay on a Goal Achiever: Writing the First Draft
Students will write an informative essay with sufficient textual evidence.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Researching the Job Market to Investigate Take-Home Salaries
Now that students have an idea of what jobs are available to them with their current skill level, they can begin to research what each job entails. This lesson gives them the opportunity to use hands-on math to determine more detailed salary information and to see what skills they will need to get to the next level into a “dream” job.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
TDL Extended Response Part 3: Writing the Response
Students will practice the process of writing an RLA extended response to improve their writing skills for the GED exam.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Language
The Legos of Language
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
· read texts to determine text structure,
· develop a research question and
· research to find answers.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Understanding Employer’s Expectations
Open up class with a skit (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/9245) that students will act in to display how employers and bosses may react to an employee following expectations, and not following expectations. Students playing the employees can read a script expressing displeasure in their employee not following the dress code, for example, and will illustrate to students that not following employer expectations can have consequences.
Every job has different expectations. How you interact with coworkers and dress are two prominent examples. Employers express these expectations in handbooks. It is the responsibility of the employee to read and understand these expectations, and prove that they are ready to work.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Uranium-Friend or Foe, Comparative Analysis in Science
Students will use critical reading skills to inform choice and support evidence-based writing.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Using Fables to Teach Character and Cultural Traditions through Speaking, Listening and Writing
Through the use of a fable, The QuiltMakers Gift, students will understand that the giving of their time, talent and treasure will improve the quality of life in their communities.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Using Job Skills to Choose a Career
In the previous class, students began creating a profile on Focus/Career using the resume-building aspect of the tool. Today, they will view available jobs in their area that matches their skill level. Through examining job requirements and the characteristics of successful applicants, students will be able to evaluate data and create their own summary of it to better understand their chances at obtaining one of the jobs matched to their profiles.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
What’s it All about? Logical Inferences and Citing Evidence
Students will identify and use evidence gleaned from research to inform decision making, learn to work with others to reach a consensus, and present the group’s opinion in a brief paper, tasks essential for personal (life) and professional (career) growth.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Writing to Inform
This lesson will give students the opportunity to expand their knowledge about an area of coal and also gives them a choice in what to research. Students will research their topic and practice writing for the purpose of informing an audience. Students will also be able to apply their skills using correct writing conventions and effective organizational structure.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Language
You Are an Internet Explorer
The ability to read and assess job descriptions is essential in pursuing a career pathway. Explicitly communicate to students that knowledge of a job/career informs the choices that will impact their futures.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Your Employee Benefits
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the importance of understanding their benefits as an employee.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing