Grade Level: 10
Subject(s): English/Language
Arts
Mathematics
Life Skills/Life Work
Vocational/Technical
Learner Outcomes: Students will define journal; create a basic, general journal; and develop questions and answers that tell their readers how a journal is developed and maintained and used.
Duration of Lesson: One 45-minute class session, after which students will keep a general journal for four weeks.
Materials: Definition, explanation, and demonstration of journal/general journal; sample copy of journal for each student (rough draft=hardcopy), access to Microsoft Excel (input data onto spreadsheet); text or teacher-made handout (Century 21 Accounting, or other text), on developing a record-keeping system.
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Access to computer/Microsoft Excel (Microsoft
Office/Word); accompanying text on journaling in a business setting.
http://www.scala.net/downloads/iscala/Financial%20ledgers%20in.pdf
http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/152/155841/joled.pdf
Procedures: Define, explain, demonstrate, and give sample (Century 21 Accounting, or other text) of the development of a journal/general journal. Discuss four-week assignment of keeping individual journals of personal spending/money earned or allocated. Introduce/teach Microsoft Excel/spreadsheet creation so students can begin inserting personal data onto spreadsheet. The journal entries will eventually be posted to individual ledger accounts.
Modifications: Make on an individual student basis according to 504/IEP.
Enrichment Activities: After students begin developing personal journals, each will write a recipe for good record-keeping*, which will retell how to develop a journal. (An acrostic created from record-keeping or general journal could be assigned instead.) Students can also develop questions and answers that recap their understanding of journaling*. (*Would require access to (Microsoft Office/Word); could be handwritten as a rough, then printed for a final copy.)
Evaluation/Assessment: Individual hand-written (hard) copy of personal/general journal, along with spreadsheet created in Microsoft Excel. Journal recipes, along with student-created questions and answers will be turned in to show grasp of material presented.
West Virginia Content Standards:
Grade 10: English/Language Arts--10.8, 10.30, 10.35, 10.39, 10.40,
10.44
Mathematics--Al.5, A2.19, AM1.1, AM1.19, AM2.9, AM2.12, CM.3, CM.6
Vocational/Technical--BRK1, BRK2, BRK4, PA6, PA11, PA19, PA20, PA33
Computer Technology--Al.20, A2.20, A2.20, AM2.20, CM.18,
National
Standards:
Grade
10: English/Language Arts--1., 2., 3., 5., 6., 7.,
13.
Mathematics--6., 8.
Life Skills--1., 2., 7.
Technology--7., 8.
Job/Career Clusters: Engineering/Technical, Business/Marketing,
References:
a) Entrepreneurship Ideas in Action Second Edition by Cynthia L.
Greene. Thomson South-Western, 2004; p. 272.
b) Microsoft Office/Word
c) Teacher-created/website handouts, Microsoft Excel/spreadsheet, text/individual
student notes taken during lesson used for retelling.
| Authors: Lincoln
County Teachers
(West Virginia) Linda Rockel, Hamlin High School Rod Whitt,Harts High School Vickie Linville, Hamlin High School |
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