For this assignment you will earn a summative score for our first unit over professionalism and employability. Please create a storyboard that showcases the key moments, depicted as scenes, that a student should take in order to successfully choose and be hired for a job they will thrive in.

• Create the student as an 8^th grader. Give them a name and make them a unique individual.

  • Creating a make-believe character is actuallty very common practice in the professional world; especially in marketing. It is a tool used to help professionals think through how other people see and experience life— this is called empathy.

  • You have the freedom to choose how you want to create your storyboard. There are plenty of free platforms/methods to do this SO PLEASE DO NOT ask your parents to buy a subscription for any site.

    • consider drawing each scene out using color pencils, markers, etc. and then using your phones to scan the drawings. Once you have captured all of the scenes, download them to your google drives. Once they are all on your google drives create a google slide show with one scene per slide. Feel free to provide a short caption for context but avoid writing the story because the scenes should be detailed enough to tell the story. Once you are finished, please submit as a .pdf by clicking on file > download > .pdf

• Next choose the key moments in their lives from 9^th grade until the moment they are hired for a job in a career they have prepared for and thus will thrive in.

  • Use some sort of writing tool to create an outline for this or else you may unintentionally leave out important moments.

  • Use

  • After looking over your storyboard a person should be able to gather the following information :

    • choosing classes

    • picking and finishing a pathway in school

    • first day of high school

    • high school experiences

    • choosing colleges or trade schools to apply to

    • experiences that best prepare the character to be accepted into college or trade school

    • being accepted into the college or trade school

    • high school graduation

    • choosing classes in college or trade school

    • experiences the character can do while in college or trade school that will best prepare them for their careers

    • college graduation

    • applying to jobs in the career they want

    • being hired in a job they will thrive in

  • Exceptional storyboards will include extra scenes that depict the character going above and beyond the prescribed methods to insure success. Consider the following:

    • what clubs/organtizations exist to surround your character with crows of people who want similiar things in life

    • what habits your character could adopt to secure the work life balance necessary for mental wellness SO THAT they succeed

    • what hobbies could the character begin to do that would help them get better at nuance skills that contribute to success in their stage of life / future career

• When finished, please turn in as a .pdf here.

• The rubric will consider the following:

  • does the story tell a complete story that includes all of the key scenes prescribed in this assignment?

    • students who earn the full 25 points will include all 12 of the key scenes described on this assignment

    • students who earn 15-24 points will include at least 10 of the key scenes described in the assignment

    • students who earn 8-14 points will include 8 of the key scenes

    • students who earn 0-7 points will include less than 8 of the key scenes

  • did the student create the storyboard with care and detail necessary to be considered industry appropriate?

    • students who earn full credit for this portion of the assignment turned in a completed project that included appropriate grammar and spelling, and a uniform look consisten from start to finish

    • students who earn 15-24 points for this portion of the assignment turned in a project with a consistent look but made obvious gramamr/spelling errors

    • students who earn 8-14 points for this portion of the assignment turned in a project with somewhat of a consitent feel/look and made some grammar and spelling errors

    • students who earn 0-7 points for this portion of the assignment have very little to no evidence of any consistent look and have zero to very little evidence of revising their work to find grammar and spelling errors.

  • is there evidence of substantial research?

    • students who earn full credit for this portion of the assignment supply links or citations that support the parts of the story they create.

    • students who earn 15-24 points give some credit to the sources but not all of them

    • students who earn 8-14 points give general accredidation to the sources they procured the information from, but do not document the sources in any official capacity

    • students who ear 0-7 points do not give much or any credit in any way to the sources.

  • is there evidence the assignment was managed appropriately?

    • students who receive full credit for this portion of the assignment submit a *detailed* document describing how they managed their time and the project from assignment date to completion date.

    • students who receive 15-24 points give submit a less detailed document describing how they managed the project

    • students who receive 8-14 points casually explain how they managed the project

    • students who receive 0-7 points will either have no or very little evidence of managing the project