Day 77- "I have fired up my resume, as I suggested all of you do as well." Despicable Me

14 days with students, 15 days total. Not like I'm counting down or anything. With our schedule being what it is, and our black day students receiving one less day of instruction than the other days, this means I only have 8 class periods (7 for black days) before finals start. As a collective of senior teachers, we decided to spend these last couple of weeks instructing the students in some business and technical writing. This is completely different that composition writing, and some of our students may be doing some of these type of writing shortly after graduation. Today, we started with resumes. We went over dos and don'ts for resumes, proper formatting, what should be on a resume, and how important grammar and spelling are to show an employer that an applicant pays attention to detail. The classes did a good job with know what was supposed to be and not supposed to be on a resume and they were fairly engaged. I believe since most of them are looking for jobs or want to be working, this was very relevant to them and they wanted to do this so they could have a resume for their job search.