DOCUMENT RESUME e ED 112 080 95 CE 004 846 TITLE BO-CEC English Resource Guide; Grades 7-9. INSTITUTION Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Dept. of Vocational Education. SPONS AGENCY Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE [75] CONTRACT OEC-0-73-5230 NOTE 360.9.; Some illustrative materials may not reproduce due to smallness of type; For related documents, see CE 004 842-847 EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 HC-$18.40 Plus Postage DESCRIPTORS *Business Education; *Business English; *Career Education; Career Exploration; Class Activities; Curriculum Enrichment; *Curriculum Guides; *English; English Instruction; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Instructional Materials; Learning Activities; Office Occupations Education; Secondary Education; Simulation; Teaching Guides; Unit Plan IDENTIFIERS Business and Office Career Education Curriculum; Project BO CEC ABSTRACT The 20 resource English units which comprise the guide for grades seven-nine are designed to supplement, rather than replace, regular instructional materials and, are intended for use as enrichment materials to use as reinforcement exercises after regular English units have been taught. The purpose of the guide is to give students a chance to explore various business and office occupations while gaining insight into how and why a knowledge of English is important in everyday work life. The units may be adapted to fit special objectives. The first 12 units deal with grammar and the _mechanics of writing, letter writing, the preparing outgoing mail; in all but one, the major activity is a job simulation requiring students to apply their knowledge of the English topic with which the unit deals. Four oral language units each contain two major activities and, as in the first 12, each unit contains a teacher's key, a background information sheet on the occupation, optional activities suggestions, and student worksheets. The remaining four units contain articles frcm newspapers or periodicals and related discussion questions which cover both literary concepts and career information. 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C FOREWORD The national Business and Office Career Education Curriculum project was funded for two years with Colorado State University by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to produce career education curriculum guides for middle and junior high schools. Other guides are being produced for K-6 grades and the secondary and post-secondary programs.The project monitor, representing the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is James H. Wykle. Drafts of three guides have been prepared for middle and junior high schools: English Resource Guide, Math Resource Guide, and Social Studies Resource Guide. The purpose of the units in each of the guides is to supplement, enrich and reinforce the usual classroom instruction in English, mathematics, and social studies, and at the same time, introduce career education. Teachers are urged to add and delete activities or make any adaptations inthe various units which will make them more effective in individual classrooms. During the 1974-75 school year, the guides were made available to the following test sites for limited dissemination: Fulton County Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; East Detroit, Michigan; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; New Orleans, Louisiana; Plainfield, New Jersey; San Diego, California; Freemont, California; Sidney, Nebraska; Pueblo, Colorado; Cortez, Colorado; and Fort Collins, Colorado. These guides are under developmental copyright and shall not be reproduced for dissemination. Certain units in the Social Studies Resource Guide are used with permission of the Wall Street Journal and PantTon Press; and be- cause they are copyrighted, they must not be reproduced. i TABLE OF CONTENTS Page i Foreword iv How to Use the BO-CEC Units English Resource Guide Outline vitt RESOURCE UNITS Writing Word Usage Unit 1: How a SECRETARY uses NOUNS & PRONOUNS on the job at a television station 1 Unit 2: How a RECEPTIONIST uses VERBS on the job at a television station 20 Unit 3: How a MANAGER uses ADVERBS & ADJECTIVES on the job at a television station 38 Unit 4: A PROMOTION MANAGER for WOBY Television Station (Using CONJUNCTIONS, PREPOSITIONS, AND INTERJECTIONS) 55 IIIComposition Unit 5: Composing SENTENCES on the job as a DIRECTOR OF SALES at a hotel 74 Unit 6: How a hotel ACCOUNTANT avoids RUN-ON SENTENCES and SENTENCE FRAGMENTS 92 Unit 7: Using PARAGRAPHS as a GENERAL OFFICE WORKER for the Aspen Ski Corporation 112 Unit 8: Writing LETTERS OF APPLICATION and RESUMES 132 Writing Letters Unit 9: How a MARKETING RESEARCHER plans a BUSINESS LETTER 136 Unit 10: How a TYPIST prepares OUTGOING MAIL in the offices of an AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER 155 Mechanics Unit 11: How a COURT REPORTER uses THE MECHANICS OF ENGLISH on the job . 177 Unit 12: How an EXECUTIVE SECRETARY uses THE MECHANICS OF ENGLISH on the job at the Ravenswood Police Station 195 6 Page Oral Language The Way We Talk --- Unit 13: How a TOUR GUIDE deals with STANDARD and NON-STANDARD ENGLISH on the job at a Meatpacking Company 215 Unit 14: Making EFFECTIVE SPEECHES as a PUBLIC PROGRAM SUPERVISOR for a telephone company 233 Listening 238 Unit 15: How a TRAVEL AGENT uses the skill of COMPREHENSION . Unit 16: How an ADVERTISING LAYOUT PERSON follows directions on the job at a Newspaper Publishing Company 256 Literature 273 Unit 17: How a MANAGER'S CHARACTER influences the success of a business . 283 Unit 18: The part MOTIVATION plays in serving a BANKING customer . Unit 19: The part CONFLICT plays in a BUSINESS OFFICE 292 Unit 20: Identifying THEME: Reversal of WORK ROLES 300 Appendices, Appendix A: Self Awareness Activities Appendix B: Guidelines for Conducting Field Trips Appendix C: Guidelines for Conducting Interviews II ...... '7 HOW TO USE THE BO-CEC UNITS The units in the BO-CEC English Resource Guide are designed to supplement, rather than replace, your regular instructional materials. The activities in these units are therefore enrichment materials that you can use as reinforcement exercises after you have taught your regularEnglish units. The features of the BO-CEC Resource Guides that you should keep in mind are: The resource units are to serve only as supplements to your regular English units. The resource units were not designed to be the rimar teaching device for the English or literature topics with w lc they deal. Each unit emphasizes an occupational setting (such as communications industry, public service organizations, transportation industry, etc.) and a specific occupation within that setting. The purpose of the BO-CEC resource guides is to give students a chance to explore various business and office occupations while gaining insight into how and why a knowledge of English is important in everyday work life. The resource units may be adapted to fit your special objectives. Because the units were developed for nationwide distribution, individual schools or school systems may need to modify the units to fit their local needs and objectives. Thus, the units have been designed