Janette Bosetin

1. Imagining
Possibilities:
A Career Recipe
Dr. Janette Bosetin
National Writing Project
Florida Gulf Coast University
June 2012

2. Quote-1
When students are taught to see how
writing is done, this way of seeing
opens up to them huge warehouses of
possibilities for how to make their
writing good writing(Ray, KW, 1999).

3. Quote-2
We need to do reporting assignments
right along with the children, showing
them how to look at a subject, read
picture books, raise questions, take
notes, and write a discovery draft
(Graves, 1994).

4. Sunshine State Standards
Writing Applications
Standard 1: Creative
The student develops and demonstrates creative writing.
LA.1112.4.1.1-The student will write in a variety of expressive
and reflective forms that uses a range of appropriate strategies
and specific narrative techniques, employs literary devices, and
sensory description; and
Communication
Standard 2: Listening and Speaking
The student effectively applies listening and speaking
strategies.
LA.1112.5.2.5- The student will research and organize
information and demonstrate effective speaking skills and
behaviors for a variety of formal and informal purposes

5. Common Core Standards
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
• Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-
specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing,
speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness
level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary
knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to
comprehension or expression.
• Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g.,
dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital,
to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its
precise meaning, its part of speech, its etymology, or its
standard usage.

6. Research
―Nonfiction is one of the most accessible
genres for reluctant and less experienced
readers because the features scaffold the
reader’s understanding.‖ Harvey, S. &
Goudvis, A. (2000).
― Smart is not something you are—it’s
something you get. And you get smart by
reading, writing, talking, listening, and
investigation by THINKING!‖ Harvey, S.
(2008).

7. Research
Students learn counterintuitive information
better when it is presented in more than
one way. Thus, we provide students with
multiple opportunities to encounter
scientific principles, through reading in
different formats (such as textbooks, trade
books, the Internet, and articles),discussion,
demonstration, and investigations.
Jetton, T. & Dole, J. (2004)

8. What I expect all students to
know and be able to do as
Good Listeners, Thinkers
and
Learners

9. Good Listeners
On the outside On the inside
Make eye contact Make connections
Face the speaker Ask questions
Use appropriate body language Visualize
Nod their heads Make inferences
Say something: e.g., ―great idea, Get new thoughts
―that’s an interesting point‖….. and ideas
Summarize Summarize
Remember important details Remember details

10. Check for Understanding
0 1 2 3 4
Even with With help, I I have partial I have a clear I have a clear
help, I have have partial understanding understanding understanding
no understanding but and can
understanding inability to produce
articulate this original
understanding content.
(I kinda-sorta
(I get it, but I (I get it, I can
(I don’t get it) get it)
can’t explain (I get it, and I explain it to
it) can explain it others, and I
to others) can mirror
author’s
style)

11. Purpose of the lesson
Writing without specificity leaves too many
unanswered questions and makes writing fuzzy.
Today, I will show you how to organize your
thinking about your reading by listening for actions
you hear, listing the special vocabulary that goes
along with your topic and thinking about how you
can use this information to create a career recipe.
Writing information in lists or using a graphic
organizer will help you think of details to add to
your writing so that it is clear. Provide a title for
your career recipe.

12. Bell work
• How do you draft your writing to
establish an organized and logical
pattern supporting details that are
specific in your writing?
• Discuss with your group..
• Share-out…

13. AGENDA
*Bell work
*Introduction
*Brainstorm
*Discussion
*Front load vocabulary
*During Reading
*Read Aloud
*Group Sharing and Discussion
*You Tube
*Group Activity: List Action and Career Words
*Share with Class
*Create class recipe using vocabulary
*Check Your Understanding

14. Brainstorm: Firefighters

15. Front Load Vocabulary
Actions/
Career Vocabulary
Construction
Occupancy
Apparatus
Life hazard
Water supply
Auxiliary appliances
Street conditions
Weather
Exposures
Area and height
Location and Extent
Time Hazards

16. Apparatus, noun
a set of materials or equipment designed for a
particular use
Example Sentence:
The hospital's operating rooms boast of having
the very latest medical apparatus.
Synonym: equipment, gear
Etymology: Latin, from apparare to prepare,

17. During Read Aloud
While I am reading, I want you to jot down your
thoughts about:
1)What are the actions and vocabulary words
you can use to write a draft for a firefighter’s
recipe?
2)What special vocabulary words used in the
article could you use?
3)What are characteristics of a firefighter?

18. Read Aloud
Simulation Training in the Firehouse

19. • Being a Firefighter
• What makes a career firefighting an ultimate dream job? Passion! Doing what you love and loving what
you do. I love everything about firefighting. I love dragging and/or rolling fire hoses. I love climbing the
enormous, truck mounted ladders. I love riding the engine, code three, lights and sirens down the
highway. I love being the first one on the team making entry into a burning building, watching the fire
build, then doing what I am trained to do and knocking the fire down. I love wearing my turnouts (bunker
gear) and helmet, wearing a heavy, air tank, and dragging a fire hose.
• What do I love about firefighting? I love returning to the station, reloading the fire hose onto the engine. I
love washing the engine. I love hand drying the engine and making sure all the equipment is secured, put
away correctly and ready to use on the next call. I love being hot, sweaty, bruised and having tired
muscles, because I feel like I earned them.
• The firefighters I know jokingly say, "we show up, in the middle of the night, break the windows, cut holes
in the roof, deluge the home with water, drag huge hoses through the landscape and then we are thanked
for coming."
• A career firefighter is an ultimate dream job because there are clearly defined goals and objectives. You
put the wet stuff on the red (hot) stuff. You go in the structure and you put the fire out. It is not
complicated, it is not political. You are helping people in their very worst hours, when their home has
burned down, when they have been in a car crash or when they are suffering an unexpected medical
emergency. You are there for them when they call. What else can you do as a career that would make
such an impact?
• Why is firefighting my ultimate dream job? At the end of the day, I have worked hard, I earned my sore
muscles, I helped someone who needed assistance and when my five year old son introduces me to his
friends he says, with a puffed out chest, "This is my mom, she's a firefighter!"
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20. After Reading Activity
Brainstorm and Share Out…
1)What are the actions/vocabulary words you
wrote?
2)What ―career‖ vocabulary words were
thinking of during our reading?
3)What are some characteristics of a firefighter
that you were thinking of?

21. Firefighter Tribute - Bon Jovi
It's My Life
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46uI
8QBEww&feature=related

22. A Recipe from a Firefighter for a Firefighter
Ingredient
Vocabulary
Active play
Wisdom
Strength
Humor
Endurance
Patience
Humility
Courage
Glaze of love

23. Recipe for Firefighter
Ingredients
Active play Humor Humility
Wisdom Endurance Courage
Strength Patience Glaze of love
Directions
Set aside a small child.
Sprinkle generously with active play to mold a strong body.
Add liberally, stirring slowly, huge handfuls of humor - a
firefighter will not jell without it.
Watch carefully for approximately 13 years until the child turns
into a spirited youth using patience and discipline.
Add the seeds of wisdom that only grow through youthful trial
and error.

24. Knead continuously through the teen years until endurance is
blended with strength.
Add slowly the yeast of humility. Set aside for 3 or 4 years,
allowing the dough time to rise and double.
Call in master chefs with the recipe engraved upon their hearts
for the final work.
Punch down the fully risen dough to shape the loaf.
Roll carefully, using the rolling pin of training on the well-floured
board of discipline.
Blend in the rare spice of courage found hidden between the
leaves of foolishness and cowardice that is only purchased with
the gold of sacrifice.

25. Shape the loaf with care, and brush with the glaze of love to
make them shine.
It is this glaze of love for human life that makes them what they
are. The love that makes them stand and risk life, health, and
security for strangers until their job is done, as they fought
courageously and one day hear these precious words:
Well done-good and faithful servant.
Note: Firefighters are prepared and blended only over many
years.

26. Recipe for a Life as a Talented Artist
Ingredients
A lifetime of focus on Goals and Dreams
300 blinks of Observations
650 moments of Amazement
120 simple questions of Curiosity
390 quiet moments of Planning
100 practical Sketches
677 eyes of Carefulness
876 million hours of Exactness
743 inner practices for Perseverance
1 in–a-million moments of Patience
100 magic hours of Passion

27. Follow this Life for a Talented Artist
If you would like to be a talented artist, you have to
have goals and dreams. You should have
something to accomplish. You should also observe.
To create a work of art, you should observe things
that will help you. Observe and be amazed! When
you are amazed, you become more involved with
the subject. You cannot work without full
concentrations.
Curiosity is something you’ll always need. Find,
Discover. To be talented, you should always look
for new ways to improve your art.

28. If you have a project to work on, you should always
plan. You should be able to think to organize your
work.
When you are ready to begin your project, you
should start sketching. This is just your rough
draft, so mess around! Try new strategies. Be
creative!
Once you’re done with your sketching, you can
start on your final copy. Be very careful. This is
your final copy so try not to mess up! Being exact
is also important in this step. You want it to be
perfect, and the best it can be, as it reflects YOU!

29. Say our final draft is done, and you’re not satisfied
with it. Don’t give up. Try again. You shouldn’t
throw away a good idea. All ideas are good. If you
are one of the people in this situation, then
patience is very important, It could take awhile for
it to come along.
The last thing is most important! All talented artists
should follow this rule. You must put your feelings
into the project. This is your project. It has to have
a part of you in it.
If you follow this recipe, and try and try again, you
should be able t to live the life of a talented artist.

30. Graphic Organizer
Brainstorm and list words that relate to a
career to create your recipe:
Actions~~ Career vocabulary words
You must have a minimum of 9 words related
to the career of your choice.
*Note: Must list ingredients and have specific
directions. Be Creative!

31. Imagine…

32. Individual Activity
Write your ideas in your notebook/graphic
organizer that includes career actions (What do
they do?), career vocabulary, (Words specific to
the career/position), and create a recipe
(Directions, like a recipe!).

33. Individual Activity
1. Choose your career
2. Use Graphic Organizer or List
3. Make a Tagxedo with your ―ingredient words‖
4. Write your Career Recipe
5. Underline each of the 9 ingredient words!
6. Submit recipe to Edmodo (online program)
7. Exit Slip-Check for Understanding/Post on board..
8. Share out~ ―Celebration‖

35. Check for Understanding
• On one side of the post-it note, list a number
of your understanding (0-4). Write 2-3
sentences related to your response.
3
I understand and am able to
share and help other students in
my group.
• On the other side of the post-it note, write
your name and period. Janette Bosetin
P2

36. Celebration!
• How do I make a constructive
comment?
• What are some positive phrases I can
use?

37. Digital Media
• Edmodo
• Tagxedo.com
• Angel
• Recipe cards:
• http://www.apollostemplates.com/templates-
food/recipe-card-notebook-templates.asp
• http://www.freeprintablerecipecards.net/

38. How will I extend the lesson?
1. Career Poem
2. The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs in America
3. Who I Am Portfolio which will include: My People,
Who I Am, What I do, Favorite things, Changing,
and Poetry (cinquain, concrete, sonnet, and
acrostic).
4. Where I’m From…
5. Pig Plan and jot ideas..
6. Bio-Poem upward…
7. Using Great Poetry to Teach Poetry..upward..
8. Fibonacci with a twist!
9. Inspiring Writing through Reading..

39. References
• Dole, J. & Jetton, T (2004). Adolescent
literacy research and practice. New York:
The Guilford Press.
• Dorfman, L. & Cappelli, R. (2009). Nonfiction
Mentor Texts. Portland: Stenhouse
Publishers.
• Grear, A. (2008). Nonfiction reading power.
Ontario: Stenhouse Publishers.

40. Appendix

41. Lesson Plan: Imagining Possibilities
Hook or connection: Careers~ For this lesson to be effective,
a process for learning will provide students with discussions,
read-aloud, examples, examples of actions and vocabulary that
relates to the career.
Purpose: Writing without specificity leaves too many
unanswered questions and makes writing fuzzy. Today, I will
show you how to organize your thinking about your reading by
listening for actions you hear, listing the special vocabulary that
goes along with your topic and thinking about how you can use
this information to create a recipe. Writing this information in lists
will help you thinking of the details to add to your writing so that it
is clear to the reader. You can decide to actually use food words
and recipe measurements or leave them out!

42. Brainstorm: Ask students to think about a career they are
personally interested in. Brainstorm career example. Ask
students to jot down their ideas in their notebook, or have
them share orally and record some ideas on the board.
Have students share ideas. Have students’ chart their ideas
in their notebook that include career: actions (what they do),
special vocabulary (words used within the career or
positions), how they could use the information to create a
recipe.
Model: Teacher chooses a read-aloud linking it to the topic.
As you share it with students, ask them to listen for actions
and specific career related vocabulary. Students can jot
down ideas in their notebooks. Discuss. Share.

43. • Shared/Guided Writing: After students read the article on a
career, as a class, have them create lists of actions, specific
vocabulary and recipe topics. Have students list possible
topics for their career recipe.
• Independent Writing: Students can return to the brainstorm
activity with lists of actions, specific career related vocabulary
and topic interests. Once they decide what career they want
to focus on, have them complete the graphic organizer and
begin planning to create their recipe.
• Reflection: Ask writers to reflect on how this strategy worked
for them using the ―check for understanding‖ scale. All
students write their level of learning on a post-it note. On one
side of the post-it note students write their name and level.
On the other side of the note, students write 1-3 sentences to
reflect upon their answer.

44. Imagine Your Career