Family & Consumer Sciences A

Unit 4

Free Enterprise

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Key Language Usage

● 15-20 Class Periods

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Standards 4: Students will explore employability skills and the principles of the free enterprise system.

4.1: Explore the importance of employability skills. ● Identify characteristics of a good employee. ● Discuss how social skills and confict resolution help obtain and maintain a job. 4.2: Complete a free enterprise experience. Develop a business plan following project management principles. ● Select a product or service to sell ● Conduct and analyze a market survey ● Design packaging for the product if applicable

● Establish a price for the product ● Conduct an advertising campaign ● Produce and sell the product ● Evaluate the effectiveness of the process/business plan

End of Unit Competency ● I can explain what it means to be a good employee and have the skills required for a job. ● I can explain and demonstrate how social skills and confict resolution help obtain and maintain a job. ● I can inform others that a business plan includes effective components of producing, promoting, selling, and evaluating a product. Language Functions & Features: ■ Generalized nouns to introduce a topic and entity ■ Opening statements to identify the type of information ■ Verbs to defne career pathways or attributes (e.g., have, be, belong to, consist of) ■ Expanded noun groups to defne key concepts, add details, or classify information ■ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside sources and integrate information into the report as in saying verbs and direct quotes ■ Technical word choices to defne and classify the entity ■ Adjectives and adverbs to answer questions about quantity, size, shape, manner ( descriptions)