1.  One more step to take with your resume.  I returned to you today your resume with my suggestions written on the page.  Please use my suggestions to refine the format and information on your resume.  Please give me your revised resume at the start of next week’s class.  Please use Jessicaliz’s resume format shown below:  start with a brief summary, then the skills you have shown in school, a school activity or job, then list your work experience, education, and then special awards or recognition (if you’ve been a captain of a team or lead role in a play or choir or student council, etc.  Rosa, Laisha and Eveline, list your selection as our class representative at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Law and CSI).

Great Resume! Check out the sequence: Summary, then Skills, Experience, Education followed by Awards/Special Recognition

2. There are multiple opportunities for PAID summer internships.  CVS Health. Collette Tours.  Books on the Square have already committed for this summer.   Check out their web sites to see if you’d like to apply.  I am working on getting more summer internships.  You will be competing with other students in this class for these PAID internships.  You will be expected to have resumes at your interviews.   Internships are impressive on resumes AND college applications.  Let me know if you have any questions and are interested in summer internships at these companies.

3.  We have already identified 3 students to represent us in Washington, D.C. this July at the National Youth Leadership Forum in Law and CSI:  Rosa Rodriguez, Eveline Silva and Laisha Mendez.  I just received another donation to sponsor ONE MORE STUDENT.  Please check out the National Youth Leadership Forum web site (nylf.org) and let me know if you are interested in representing us at the Forum with Rosa, Eveline and Laisha.

1.  Create your resume.  Follow the template that Nan distributed in class today.  This template is posted in the January 26, 2018 blog posted on this web site.  You will be expected to turn in your resume to Mr Cronin at the beginning of next week’s class on February 2nd, 2018.

2. Please let me know, “yes“ or “no“ if you can go on our field trip to the offices of CVS Health in Woonsocket, RI for our career information day on April 10th.  We will learn what it’s like to work at an international company with over $180 billion dollars in sales; in other words, what you can expect from the company (training programs, good cafeteria, work areas, opportunities for promotion, health insurance, vacation time, good pay, etc) and what the company will expect from you (on time, all the time, hard work, dependability, creative thinking, ability to collaborate with other employees, etc).   You will also have an opportunity to speak with CVS employees working in a job you are interested in.  For instance, Ayo can have a meeting with a CVS employee working in the IT department at the company.  We’ll leave Hope High around 9am and return to school by 2pm.  Please note – WE AGREED, YOU MUST COMPLETE YOUR HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS TO GO.  Send your answer to my email address by Tuesday, January 30th, before I go to bed that night.

3.  Please let me know “yes” or “no“ if you would like to be part of a focus group on Tuesday, February 6th at 9:am with an entrepreneur hoping to create an app that will send you a motivational voice message every day to inspire you to do your best.  Send your answer to my email address by Tuesday, January 30th, before I go to bed that night.

1.  Please read today’s blog posted on this web site about Marta’s visit.   Then, please tell me something that Marta shared with us today that could help you in your own quest for personal success.  Please send me your well written statement with perfect spelling in one or more short sentence(s) with good grammar by Monday, January 15th, before midnight.

2. Please read pages 1 through 19 in the Peter the Great book posted on this web site.  Then, write  ONE goal and the benefit you HOPE to achieve from this goal that you will complete by September 2018.  IDENTIFY THE BENEFIT FIRST AND THEN WRITE THE GOAL IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK.  Send your well written statements about your benefit then your goal with perfect spelling, good grammar in one sentence to my email address by Monday, January 15th, before midnight.

3.  After reading pages 1 through 19 in the Peter the Great book, please tell me something you read in the Peter the Great book that made you think about your plan for success; it may be something you’re not doing or thinking about now that you should be doing.  Please tell me what you read that made you think about your plan in a well written statement with perfect spelling, good grammar in one or more short sentence(s) to my email address by Monday, January 15th, before midnight.

4.  We are taking Marta’s advice about READING MORE.  Please read the newspaper article I gave you today in class entitled “Graduate of the Year“.   Please give me ONE ADJECTIVE that describes your reaction to this article.  ONE WORD; ONE DESCRIPTIVE WORD that tells me how you felt after reading this article.   Send your one word reaction with perfect spelling to my email address by Monday, January 15th, before midnight.

5.  Please tell me ‘yes’ or ‘no‘ if you have sent Marta an email following her appearance in our class today.  I don’t need to know what you said to Marta.  Just want to know if you followed up with her.  I will check with her later next week to see how many emails she has received to date. Send your one word reaction with perfect spelling to my email address by Monday, January 15th, before midnight.