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CHAPTER 4 REVIEW
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ASSESSMENT
16. Classify and Compare Findings. List at least
three groups to which you belong. Identify each
group’s values and expectations for its members.
Categorize your lists under personal, relationship,
and work values. Then make a list of your own
priorities and expectations for your life. Write
a paper in which you compare the lists. Cite
references from the text which support your
analysis.
17. Create an Application. Create three separate
lists of your values in the following areas:
personal life, relationships, and school. Identify
the most important value and a long-term goal
related to it from each list. Divide the long-term
goals into subgoals. Identify a plan of action that
will help you reach your long-term goals. Choice:
For each long-term goal, identify one possible
obstacle and alternatives for how you could
overcome it.
18. Identify Alternatives. Working with a partner,
identify a decision that needs to be made, such
as whether or not to sign up for an after-school
activity, such as a sport or club, or whether
or not to volunteer at a local senior center or
similar location. Identify the alternatives and the
advantages and disadvantages of each. Identify
the values that would be likely to be important in
this decision. Also identify how the decision will
affect your family and interpersonal relationships.
19. Solving Problems. With your partner, identify
a choice and a plan of action for the decision
situation in the previous question. Then write
down possible obstacles to that plan. Exchange
your information with that of another pair. Look at
the obstacles that they identified for their plan and
come up with ways to address them.
20. Make Inferences. Identify a decision you made
regarding a personal, relationship, or work-
related issue. List the steps you used to make
the decision. Compare your steps to those in the
decision-making process. If you had followed the
decision-making process, would you have made
a better or more informed decision? How did your
decision affect your future employment? Explain
your answer.
CORE SKILLS
21. Social Studies, Writing. Create a list of human
and nonhuman resources in your community
that you could use to help you reach a goal of
graduating from high school. Write a paragraph
explaining how these resources will help you
reach your goal. Choice: Create a collage of
pictures or drawings to present your list.
22. Writing. Write a one-page paper comparing your
personal values with your cultural values. Identify
at least three cultural values.
23. Reading, Writing. Evaluate a magazine or
newspaper article for different values that
motivate people to act. Look for examples of
societal, group, and personal values. Write a
paragraph summarizing these values and their
impact on the person’s actions.
24. Expressing Ideas Visually. Choose an area
in which you will be making a major decision.
Research the decision using the steps for
decision making. Then use a drawing program
to illustrate the steps in the decision-making
process in a flowchart format.
25. Financial Literacy, Speaking. Interview a cell-
phone representative and identify the different
factors to consider when making a decision to
buy a cell phone. In an oral presentation, make
a recommendation for purchasing a cell phone
based on your analysis of the options.
26. Writing. Write a one-page paper explaining how
nonhuman technological resources, such as cell
phones, laptops, and the Internet, can increase a
person’s ability to access human resources.
27. Research, Science, Speaking. Search the
Internet for information on one form of substance
abuse and prepare a report on the harmful
effects of that substance. Identify community
resources available to help a person overcome
the consequences related to the use of that drug.
Present the findings of your research to the class
in a two-minute summary.
CAREER READINESS
28. Researching and Reporting on Work Values.
Visit the websites of three companies and go to
the careers or employment section. Read what
the companies say about what they are looking
for in employees. Based on what you read, draw
up a list of at least a half-dozen work values that
employers expect to see in their employees.
Write and deliver a brief presentation in which
you identify these work values and explain why
companies consider them important. Group
option: Prepare the presentation as an expert
panel discussion. Group option: Prepare the
presentation as a job interview, with one student
taking the role of an interviewer and the other
taking the role of a job candidate.
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