November 29 – December 3, 2021

November 29, 2021 – Begin Math in the Workplace topic. Begin class by asking students to name some ways they think they will use math in their future careers. Watch Math Meets Homebuilding. Pass out the Mathematics in the Workplace Vocabulary Handout for students to use as a reference material during the presentation. Show slides 1 to 20 of the Applications segment of Mathematics in the Workplace. Complete Shortcuts to Tipping.

November 30, 2021 – English I & II EOC Testing Part 1

December 1, 2021 – English I & II EOC Testing Part 2

December 2, 2021 – English I & II EOC Testing Part 3

December 3, 2021 – Watch Math Meets Entrepreneurship. Show slides 21 to 38 of the Applications segment of Mathematics in the Workplace. Follow the segment with Mathematics in the Workplace – Applications – Student Notes and Assessment I. Complete Discounts.

December 6, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout. Show the Basic Math segment of the presentation (slides 39-49). Follow the segment with Mathematics in the Workplace – Basic Math – Student Notes and Assessment II. Complete Multiplying Numbers That End in Zero.

December 7, 2021 – Show the Fractions, Decimals & Percentages segment of Mathematics in the Workplace (slides 50-72). Follow the segment with Mathematics in the Workplace – Fractions, Decimals & Percentages – Student Notes and Assessment III. Introduce the Real-Life Math Activity and allow students to work on it.

December 8, 2021 – Show the Conversion and Ratios & Proportions segments of Mathematics in the Workplace (slides 73-84). Follow segments with Assessment IV and V. Complete Finding the Percent of a Number. Allow students to finish the Real-Life Math Activity.

November 15 – 19, 2021

November 15, 2021 – Complete Payroll Assessment in iCEV. Begin Checking Topic. Watch How to Write a Check Step-by-Step Instructions. Review How to Write a Check and Reasons Why a Bank Would Not Honor a Check. Use Writing the Amount of Check in Words as a reference. Complete Understanding Parts of a Check Worksheet and Writing Checks Exercise. Practice writing name in cursive using Cursive Writing Guide.

November 16, 2021 –  Complete Parts of a Check Exercise, Writing Dollars and Cents Exercise and Check Writing Practice.

November 17, 2021 – Watch How To Use A Checking Register. Examine the Recording a Check Example, Completed Register and read Reconcile Check Register. Complete the Check Register Exercise and Practice Recording Checks.

November 18, 2021 – Review Recording Deposits Example. Complete Recording Deposits Practice. Students Catch-up on missing assignments.

November 19, 2021 – Students Off

November 15 – 19, 2021
Log on to iCEV

November 15, 2021 – Begin Retirement & Estate Planning. Hand out the Retirement & Estate Planning Vocabulary Handout and the Planning for Retirement Student Handout for students to use as a reference. Show slides 1 to 27 of the Retirement Preparation segment. Watch FIVE Reasons Why Tennessee is a Great Place to Retire. Complete Assessment I. Introduce the Retirement Plan Project and allow students to start working on it.

November 16, 2021 – Watch Retire in Tennessee or New Hampshire?  Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout. Show slides 29 to 51 of the Estate Planning segment. Complete Retirement & Estate Planning Vocabulary Activity in iCEV. Students should complete the corresponding Assessment II. Have students begin the interactive Terminology of a Will Activity.

November 17, 2021 – Watch Retire in Panama – Living on Less Than Social Security. Read the article and answer the questions for How to Escape the American Tax Man When You Retire Abroad. Students should complete Where there is a Will, There is a Way and Retirement & Estate Planning Final Assessment in iCEV. Complete Death Tax Word Search.

November 18, 2021 – Watch Best Places in Entire World to Retire Early Cheap. Catch up on assignments.

November 19, 2021 – Students off.

November 15 – 19, 2021

November 15, 2021 – Distribute the Employee Rights & Responsibilities Student Handout and the Employer Responsibility Student Handout. Show the Employer Responsibility segment (slides 26-40). Follow the segment with Workplace Issues – Employer Responsibility – Student Notes and Assessment III.

November 16, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Show the Employee Safety segment (slides 41-56). Follow the segment with Workplace Issues – Employee Safety – Student Notes and Assessment IV. Complete the It’s All in the Attitude Activity in iCEV.

November 17, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Show the Workplace Policies segment (slides 57-67). Follow the segment with Workplace Issues – Workplace Policies – Student Notes and Assessment V. Complete the Sexual Harassment or Not Activity in iCEV.

November 18, 2021 – Complete the Workplace Issues Final Assessment. Catch up on any missing assignments.

November 19, 2021 – Students Off

November 15 – 19, 2021

November 15, 2021 – Complete the Project Management Skills in Business Assessment. Begin Career Advancement Strategies. Begin the class by distributing the Career Advancement Strategies Vocabulary Handout and the Student Handout for students to use as reference material. Show slides 1 to 27 of the Career Advancement Strategies presentation. Complete the Network Event Activity.

November 16, 2021 – Show Mapping Your Future presentation. Have students complete the Student Notes and Vocabulary Activity in iCEV. Read Work and Career Planning in the 21st Century. Complete What is New? and Then & Now worksheets.

November 17, 2021 – Watch Business Attire. Review Dress for Success PowerPoint. Play Networking Bingo. Complete the Career Advancement Strategies Assessment.

November 18, 2021 – Complete Where Will I Be at 33? Project. Get caught up on any missing work.

November 19, 2021 – Students Off

November 8 – 12, 2021
Log on to iCEV

November 8, 2021– Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout. Show the Paychecks and Forms segments (slides 27-51) and follow with Employee Compensation Components – Paychecks – Student Notes and Employee Compensation Components – Forms – Student Notes. Complete Assessment II and Assessment III. Complete the Group Health Insurance Activity.

November 9, 2021 – Complete the Employee Compensation Components Final Assessment. Begin the Personal Risk Management . Pass out Vocabulary Handout, Gambling Student Handout and the Financial Risk Management Planning Student Handout. Show the Understanding Risk segment (slides 1-13) of the presentation. Students should complete Personal Risk Management – Understanding Risk – Student Notes and Assessment I. Have students begin the Risk Management Strategies Activity in the “Interactive Activities” section.

November 10, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout. Show slides 14 to 47 of the Insurance segment of the presentation. Students should complete the Personal Risk Management – Insurance – Student Notes and Assessment II. Introduce the Insurance & Risk Management Project and instruct students to start working on it. Allow the remainder of class for groups to continue to work on their Project.

November 11, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout as a reference. Show slides 48 to 78 of the Identity Theft Protection segment. Students should complete Personal Risk Management – Identity Theft Protection – Student Notes and Assessment III. Have students begin the Protections from Identity Theft Activity.

November 12, 2021 – Students should complete the Personal Risk Management – Vocabulary Activity and Personal Risk Management Final Assessment.

November 15, 2021 – Begin Retirement & Estate Planning. Hand out the Retirement & Estate Planning Vocabulary Handout and the Planning for Retirement Student Handout for students to use as a reference. Show slides 1 to 27 of the Retirement Preparation segment. Watch FIVE Reasons Why Tennessee is a Great Place to Retire. Complete Assessment I. Introduce the Retirement Plan Project and allow students to start working on it.

November 16, 2021 – Watch Retire in Tennessee or New Hampshire?  Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout. Show slides 29 to 51 of the Estate Planning segment. Complete Retirement & Estate Planning Vocabulary Activity in iCEV. Students should complete the corresponding Assessment II. Have students begin the interactive Terminology of a Will Activity.

November 17, 2021 – Watch Retire in Panama – Living on Less Than Social Security. Read the article and answer the questions for How to Escape the American Tax Man When You Retire Abroad. Students should complete Where there is a Will, There is a Way and Retirement & Estate Planning Final Assessment in iCEV. Complete Death Tax Word Search.

November 11 – 18, 2021

November 8, 2021 – It is important to understand all perspectives of advertising. Watch How Advertising Rewires Kids’ Brains. Review Slides 111 – 123 of the Influences on Advertising segment. Complete Advertising for Business Assessment V. Working in groups, create your own Advertisement project.

November 9, 2021 – Review Packaging PowerPoint. Watch Food Label Fight. Begin Packaging Scavenger Hunt. You may work alone or in a group. Follow the instructions. Complete Advertising for Business Assessment VI. Complete 11 Places for Free Advertising Word Search. Make-up any missing work.

November 10, 2021 – Start Budgeting for Business Topic. Hand out the Budgeting for Business Vocabulary Handout which should be used as reference materials during the presentation. Show the Budgeting for Business presentation. Have students complete the Budgeting for Business Student Notes and Event Budget Project.

November 11, 2021 – Watch Virtual Field Trip – Amazon Fulfillment Center Video Tour. Complete and Vocabulary Activity (iCEV interactive section) and the Budgeting for Business Crossword as review. Complete the Budgeting for Business Assessment.

November 12, 2021 – Begin Project Management Skills in Business. Watch Careers in Project Management. Pass out the Project Management Skills in Business Vocabulary Handout. Review the Project Management Skills in Business presentation (1-26 Slides). Have students complete the Project Management Skills in Business – Student Notes, the Project Management Skills in Business Assessment and the Project Management Scenarios Activity in the “Interactive Activities” section.

November 8 – 12, 2021

November 8, 2021 – Complete Picnic Spreadsheet and Excel Number Formulas 2. Excel Review. Complete any missing assignments.

November 9, 2021 – Excel Quiz. Begin Payroll topic. Distribute the Accounting Fundamentals: Payroll Vocabulary Handout for students to reference during the presentation. Show slides 1 to 17 of the Accounting Fundamentals: Payroll presentation. Complete the Accounting Fundamentals: Payroll – Student Notes and Cost of Gross Earnings Activity (iCEV online) in the “Interactive Activities” section.

November 10, 2021 – Watch Virtual Field Trip – Jeremias Ramos, CPA, Tax Supervisor at Withum Smith & Brown. Remind students to continue using their Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Show slides 18 through 33 of the Accounting Fundamentals: Payroll presentation. Complete Payroll Vocabulary Activity (iCEV online). Begin Employee Payroll Spreadsheet Assignment.

November 11, 2021 – Remind students to continue using their Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Show slides 34 through 47 of the Accounting Fundamentals: Payroll presentation. Complete the Salary Expense Activity (iCEV online) in the “Interactive Activities” section. Watch ETSU Virtual Tour.

November 12, 2021 – Remind students to continue using their Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Show slides 48 through 64 of the Accounting Fundamentals: Payroll presentation. Read Why Proper Payroll Accounting Is Critical. Complete the Net Pay Worksheet and Payroll Accounting Questions (in Teams).

November 8 – 12, 2021

November 8, 2021 – Begin Leadership & Team Dynamics topic. Pass out the Leadership & Team Dynamics Vocabulary Handout for students to reference during the presentation. Show the Effective Leadership segment and follow with the segment with Leadership & Team Dynamics – Effective Leadership Student Notes and Assessment I. Complete Leadership vs. Management Activity.

November 9, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout. Show the
Effective Team Development segment and follow with Leadership & Team Dynamics – Effective Team Development Student Notes and Assessment II. Complete All Anyone Really Wants at Work Is Autonomy. 

November 10, 2021 – Watch The surprising truth in how to be a great leader. Assign Leadership & Team Dynamics – Vocabulary Activity and the Leadership & Team Dynamics Final Assessment. Complete What Gets You Up in the Morning? as compared to what keeps you up at night worrying as a leader.

November 11, 2021 – Begin Workplace Issues. Ask students what they feel could be issues in the workplace based on past experiences or experiences they have had in school. Distribute the Workplace Issues Vocabulary Handout. Show The Workplace segment. Follow the segment with the Workplace Issues – The Workplace – Student Notes and Assessment I. Complete Workplace Etiquette Worksheet – Scenarios.

November 12, 2021 – Remind students to continue using the Vocabulary Handout as reference materials. Show the Organizational Structure segment. Follow the segment with the corresponding Workplace Issues – Organizational Structure – Student Notes and Assessment II. Read 7 Benefits of Centralized vs. Decentralized Structures.

November 1 – 5, 2021

November 1, 2021 – Discuss Excel Formulas. Watch the attached video about subtracting in Excel located in Teams, and then complete Subtracting Spreadsheet.  Complete the assignment and upload to Teams. (See Spreadsheet Assignments for original videos and documents.) Complete Excel Formula Worksheet. 

November 2, 2021  – Demonstrate formatting text, inserting pictures and changing font. Watch the attached video about multiplying in Excel located in Teams, and then complete Multiplying Spreadsheet.  Upload to Teams. Assign Decorating Your Dream Bedroom Budget Project. Allow students to work the remainder of the class.

November 3, 2021  – Demonstrate and watch video about dividing in Excel located in Teams, and then complete the Dividing Spreadsheet.  Complete the assignment and upload to Teams. Assign Purchasing Your Next Car Spreadsheet Project. Allow students to work the remainder of the class.

November 4, 2021  – Complete Mean, Median and Mode Worksheet. Watch the attached videos about calculating the mean, the median and the mode in Excel located in Teams. Then complete the Mean Spreadsheet, Median Spreadsheet and the Mode Spreadsheet. Complete the assignments and upload to Teams.

November 5, 2021  – Watch How to Design and Format an Excel Spreadsheet. Complete Excel Number Problems and Function Machines. Complete any missing assignments. Pep Rally.