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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 107 763 CE 003 838 AUTHOR Blegen, Larry; Green, Mark TITLE By the Sweat of Your Brow: English Unit for the Ninth Grade Student. INSTITUTION White Bear Lake Independent School District 624, Minn. PUB DATE [73] NOTE 83p.; For related documents, see CE 003 833-7 and CE 003 839-49 EDRS PRICE MF-S0.76 HC -$4.43 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS *American Literature; *Career Education; Directed Reading Activity; Educational Resources; Employer Employee Relationship; *English Curriculum; Grade 9; Instructional Materials; Secondary Education; *Supplementary Reading Materials; Teacher Developed Materials; *Work Attitudes IDENTIFIERS *Readings (Collections) ABSTRACT The guide, developed as part of an exemplary program for junior high school students, is a ninth grade English unit designed to use contemporary literary materials which deal with occupational situations and attitudes of both employers and employees. The emphasis is on the relationship between on-the-job and leisure time activities. Three pages of the guide contain an outline for organizing the unit and cover the broad learning objectives, the task analysis sequence, the learning objectives in performance terms, and strategies tc be employed for learning. A bibliography, a unit evaluation, and a unit assignment sheet comprise one page each. The body of the document consists of the texts of the 18 dramatic pieces, short stories, magazine articles, poems, modern songs, and television and movie scripts which make up the unit materials. (JR) *********************************************************************** * Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * * materials not available from other sources. 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MICA, 0% OR POLICY White Bear Lake Public Schools .1 2, BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW ENGLISH UNIT FOR THE NINTH GRADE STUbENT by Larry Blegen Mark Green CAREER DEVELOPMENT Grades 7 - 9 An Exemplary Program in Career Education Funded under the Provisions of Part D of the Vocational Education Amendment of 1968 for Independent School District #624 White Bear Lake, Minnesota Ernest M. Thomsen, Superintendent Ron Johnstone, Director Vocational Education 1972 - 73 BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW A unit designed to help the student understand the dignity of work and to see its relationship to his life situation. This unit is designed in such a way as to use contemporary materials dealing with occupational situations and attitudes of both employers and employees. The emphasis is on the relationship between on-job and leisure time activities. It has been constructed to utilize various literary genre including drama, short stories, magazine articles, poetry, modern songs, television and movies. In addition to this, guest speakers should be invited to speak to groups on an attitudinal basis. In addition to the classroom procedure, several projects should be formulated on an individual basis for students who wish to seek in depth how people really feel about their jobs and lives. Our entire emphasis has been toward helping the student realize the importance of selecting an area of interest that really excites him to avoid job apathy and complacency and to help him develop a positive attitude toward the world of work. Hark Green Larry Blegen BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW ORGANIZING A UNIT STEP I --- NAME OF UNIT: By the Sweat of Your Brow STEP II -- BROAD LEARNING OBJECTIVES TO BE ACHIEVED WITH UNIT A. Realization of growing up surrounded by a multitude of people's adjustments to working situations. B. :.Realization of basic needs for acceptance or rejection of people's attitude to their working conditions. C. Formulating a self-concept of one's own view of acceptance or rejection of work, its needs, and its relation to life and leisure time activities. STEP //I - "TASK ANALYSIS" SEQUENCE A. Identification of major ideas to be stressed 1. Development of positive attitudes toward employment. 2. Recognizing broad needs of various types of employ- ment (reading, writing, etc.). B. Skills to be taught No specific skills will be taught in this unit.The entire emphasis of the unit will be to help the student develop a positive attitude toward the world of work. C. Attitudes to be developed 1. Recognize misconceptions people have about work. 2. Recognizing need for successful participation in the world of work. 3. Developing positive acceptance of world of work and its ramifications. -1- RP mom.. 5 D. Are there any pre-requisites for students which must he considered? 1. Knowledge of parental attitudes toward their work. 2. Knowledge of other adult acquaintances toward work. 3. Students' own preconceived attitudes toward world of work. STEP IV -- LEARNING OBJECTIVES IN PERFORMANCE TERMS A. By the end of the first cycle the student will be able to define "vocation" and "avocation" in one sentence. B. By the end of the second cycle the student will be able to write one paragraph on two of his vocational and two of his avocational interests. C. By the end of the third cycle the student will be able to write five reasons for the necessity of using leisure time effectively and profitably. D. By the end of the fourth cycle the student will write ten characteristics that make people happy and content with their jobs. E. By the end of the fourth cycle the student will write ten characteristics that make people unhappy with their jobs. STEP V --- STRATEGIES TO BE EMPLOYED FOR LEARNING A. Listing of learning experiences desired to help students reach the objectives. 1. Students will read a. "The First Appendectomy" b. "Printer's Measure" c. "Money" d. "Rosaria" e. "Operation Cockroach" f. "A Firm Word or Two" g. "Florida Road Workers" h. "Dying . It!s a Living" i. "What Every Boy Should Know" j. "Fadiman's Lae of Optimum Improvgment" -2- k. "The Robots Are Here" 1. "The Standard of Living" m. Extract from "The People, Yes" n. "Man's Work? Woman's Work?Not Now" o. "The Wide World of Work" p. "Money on Morgan" q. "Football Injuries Upset the Odds" 2. Students will look at a. Job Attitude Tilmstripseries b. Booklets and pamphletsrelating to specific jobs and professions c. Booklets and pamphletson avocations 3. Studeftts will listen to a. Recording of Rose, Glenn Yarbrough b. America, Yes! 4. Students might construct a. Research projects relating to peoplepresently involved in specific vocational andavocational pursuits. b. Bulletin boards, collages, andposters on vocational and avocational interests. 5. Students may write a. Summary of Living and Learning ThroughMovies b. Summary of Living and Listening Through Records 6. Students should discuss a. Necessity of work b. Positive views of vocations c. Effect of money on work and leisure time d. Productive use of leisure time. -3-- 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY Anderson, Dave, Football Injuries Upset the Odds, in What's Happening, ed. by Marvin L. Greene, Glenview, Illinois, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1969 Armour, Richard, Money, in Voices, ed. by Geoffrey Summerfield, Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1969 Benchley, Nathaniel, A Firm Word or Two, in Moments of Decision, ed. by Helen F. Olson, New York, Scholastic Book Service, 1961 Chayefsky, Paddy, "Printer's Measure, "Scholastic Scope, Jan. 29, 1973, pp. 8-22 Dooley, Thomas A.,Operation Cockroach, in Moments of Decision, ed. by Helen F. Olson,New York, Scholastic Book Services, 1961 Fadiman, Clifton,Fadiman's Law of Optimum Improvement, Currents in Nonfiction, ed.by Jarvis E. Bush, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1968" Halacy, D. S. Jr., The Robots Are Here!, in Currents in Nonfiction, ed. by Jarvis E. Bush, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1968 Hughes, Florida Road Workers, in Voices, ed. by Geoffrey Summerfield, Chicago, Rand McNally g Company, 1969 Libby, William, Dying...It's a Living, in What's Happening, ed. by Marvin L. Greene, Glenview, ILlinois, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1969 Maxwell, William, What Every Boy Should Know, in The Loners, ed. by L. M. Schulman, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1970 Nolen, William, M.D., "The First Appendectomy," Read, XXII, Jan. 19, 1973, pp. 18-21 Parker, Dorothy, The Standard of Living, in Short Stories, ed. by Edwin H. Sauer and Howard Mumford Jones, New YoiT761i711Fehart and Winston, Inc., 1963 Sandburg, Carl, Extract from "The People, Yes", in Voices, ed. by Geoffrey Summerfield, Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1969 Thaler, Susan, Rosaria, in What's Happening, ed. by Marvin L. Greene, Glenview, Ill=g7 Scott, Foresman and Company, 1969 Westerby, Robert, Money on Morgan, in What's Happening, ed. by Marvin L. Greene, Glenview, Illinois, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1969 -4- "The Wide World of Work," Minneapolis Tribune, December 5, 1971, p. 39A Yarbrough, Glenn, Rose, (record). Zack, Marg, "Man's Work? Woman's Work? Not Now," Minneapolis Tribune January 28, 1973, pp. 1E, 4-5E -5- BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW Unit Evaluation We spent nearly five weeks working with the students in developing a positive attitude toward work and also to develop the need to under- stand the importance of leisure time. Throughout the unit. a great deal of individual questions involving attitudes toward work were discussed in depth. We found the students very eager and curious about the impact of work on their lives.

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