Cool Jobs 6-packs Author: Various ISBN: 9780176357986 Lesson Plan Grade Level: 7 Theme/Topic: Careers, Character Education Classification: Fiction, Nonfiction

Key Reading Strategy: Making Inferences

The lesson plans in this issue of High Wire Magazine highlight the reading strategy of Making Inferences.  Opportunities to practice this strategy are indicated by the symbol. For more information on this strategy, see page 9.  Assessment Master 9 in the Program and Assessment Guide can be used for this strategy.

Curriculum Link: social studies

Introducing the Magazine

Setting the Scene

Tell the students that this issue of High Wire Magazine is about the jobs some people do and how they came to do those jobs.  It is also about the choices people make and the ways they make those choices.

Making Connections

Ask the students to think about the different kinds of jobs they know about – from their parents, family friends, movies, TV, books.  Ask questions such as the following:

• What jobs do you think are cool?
• What makes a job cool?
• Is it important for a job to be cool? Why?

The selections in this issue of High Wire Magazine include both fiction and nonfiction.  Spend some time previewing a variety of genres before you start reading the selections.

For more information please see our Lesson Plan