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GRADE: 10 LESSON: 14

THEME: PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR

LESSON GOALS:

• Review students’ academic goals and plans.
• Explain the course registration process for next year.
• Help students complete their 11^th grade course registration forms.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

• What courses do I need to reach my goals?
• What should I do next year?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• Completed Four-year Plans (from students’ portfolios)
• Course catalog, including graduation requirements
• Course Registration Forms (forecasting packets from counseling center)

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:

1. Discuss students’ Four-year Plans. Have students retrieve and review their Four-year Plans. What goals have they outlined for the next two years? How will the classes they’ve selected prepare them? How can they be most successful next year?

2. Introduce the forecasting packets. Students’ Four-year Plans will guide the course registration process for next year. Review how the course registration process will work. Make sure students take home their forms to get parent signatures, and return them promptly to the counseling center.

3. Begin the course registration process. Distribute course registration forms. Ask students to complete their forms for 11^th grade. Refer students who are still uncertain of their plans to your school’s Counseling Office.

STUDENT PRODUCTS:

• Course Registration Form. Each student should complete a course registration form for 11^th grade. They must have their parents sign before returning.