This lesson should come after students have been taught to develop a resume for themselves.

Competencies:  Develop a resume

English SOL’s:

10.10  The student will collect, evaluate, and organize information.     Research
Social Studies:   Research famous and great leaders.

Cross Curriculum:  Marketing and Social Studies
Effectiveness through Collaboration and other “Best Practices” of Instruction
 Ask your instructional leader in the history department to give you a list of names (at least 25) they sometimes can’t cover due to time restraints that may be on the SOL’s.

Objective: 
TLW create a resume on a historical person.

Materials: 
 Access to the library or computers with Internet.

Rationale: 
By having students do a resume on someone else they not only reinforce what they already know about creating a resume, but they also learn something about history.

Set:  Have students pick a name (list you got from history department) out of a
hat and that’s who they will do a resume on.  Don’t let student’s trade names and tell them not to tell anyone who they have.

Reteach:
Go over the parts of the Resume; education, job experience, etc., format and do & don’ts of creating resume.  This should be a review because they have already created a resume on themselves.

Guided: 
Explain to students that they will create a resume on someone as if that person 
was doing it them selves.  Give an example:  For instance suppose you picked 
Robert E. Lee.  You have to research his life to find out about when he was born and died, schools he attended, career information, and people he knew.  Then on your resume for Robert E. Lee (1807 – 1870) you would include information about West Point, 2nd in his class, history in the service before and during the War Between the States.  Presidency of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University.  For references (three) you would include someone like Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy.  This way they are also learning about other historical figures.

Assessment:  Resume

Oral Presentation:  (optional if time permits)
Have students present information on their resume and see if someone can guess who it is.  (This is why you have students not to tell who they picked)

Closure:  Review with students the importance of a resume and how it is used to obtain a job.  Discuss with them the importance of people they might have picked and the qualities they have and which ones would be included on a resume.  Go over with students next day’s lesson.
 

 

Michael Craig Hill
Norcom High School
Portsmouth Virginia