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Subject

English Language Arts (NYS P-12 Common Core)

Assessment

• Students communicate what they want to be when they grow up.
• Class discusses the positive aspects of the “future people” shared by the students.

Author

CDOS Writing Team, Authors of Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum.

Materials / Resources

• Art paper
• Drawing and coloring materials

Comments / Modifications

• Students can dress up as the person they want to be and give an oral presentation.
• “Me in 20 Years” can be used for older students or students with more advanced writing skills.

Duration

20–30 minutes

Essential Question

Who am I?

Description

Objective: Students will picture themselves as competent and successful.

• Class participates in a discussion of what makes someone successful or important. Discussion can include identification of specific people and their traits.
• Students imagine themselves as people who are successful or important. Students think about what they would be if they could be anything, or do anything they wanted, when they grow up.
• Students draw pictures of themselves as they want to be when they are adults, including the setting.
• Students decorate a paper briefcase to represent the type of job they would like to have when they grow up.
• Class discusses what students can do to become the type of people they have identified.
• Students write a story called “Me in 20 Years.”

Source

CDOS Writing Team. “Me in the Future.” In Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. New York State Department of Education, 16.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

CDOS.E.1.1.B Students demonstrate an awareness of their interests, aptitudes, and abilities.

CDOS.E.3a.BS.1.A Students listen to and read the ideas of others and express themselves both orally and in writing; they use basic mathematical concepts and computations to solve problems.

CDOS.E.3a.TS.2.A Students use ideas and information to make decisions and solve problems related to accomplishing a task.

CDOS.E.3a.PQ.3.A Students demonstrate the personal qualities that lead to responsible behavior.

ARTS.VA.E.1.1.A Students experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences.

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