College Exploration, 5/10/10

Sacramento State University

Agenda, 5-10-10

1. Quick-write and review the A-G requirements.2. Become familiar with a partial list of Colleges in

California, use your notebook.3. Scavenger Hunt, you’ll use your notebook. 4. Use your notebook & complete a chart on the A-

G requirements.5. Build a schedule for next year.

Extra Credit;Due Wednesday, bring back a list of the remaining

13 C.S.U. campuses & do any of them have overnight visits for high school students (return with verification of this).

Objectives

Students Shall; Examine the California’s 4 and 2 year colleges. Review which types of pathways to college are

found in their class. Become with the A-G requirements if they aren’t

already. Create a schedule for their Sophomore year,

which could meet the AHS graduation requirements and the A-G requirements.

Quick-write, to be completed in your notebook

Examine your classmates and estimate how many of them would like to follow one of the following career pathways immediately after high school; Attend a 4 year university Attend a 2 year college Attend a vocational/trade school Join the military Work first & then attend college. Then in a detailed, well written answer of at least

3 sentences, explain what the A-G requirements are.

Partial List of Colleges in California

University of California

California State University

Private Universities

2 Year Colleges

Partial List of Colleges in California

University of California

California State University

Private 4 Year Universities

2 Year Colleges

Berkeley Fresno Fresno Pacific West Hills

Davis San Francisco Stanford Reedley

Irvine Long Beach Pacific Sequoias

Los Angeles Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Loyola-Marymount

Fresno City College

Merced Cal Poly Pomona Pepperdine City College of San Francisco

Riverside Sacramento Claremont-McKenna

San Diego San Jose U. Of San Diego

San Francisco San Diego St. Mary’s

Santa Barbara Stanislaus U. Of San Francisco

Santa Cruz Los Angeles

University of San FranciscoUniversity of San Francisco UC San DiegoUC San Diego

4 year campuses

San Jose StateSan Jose State Fresno StateFresno State

4 year campuses

Cal Poly-San Luis ObispoCal Poly-San Luis Obispo University of San DiegoUniversity of San Diego

4 year campuses

Scavenger Hunt Expectations

Speak to at least 5 classmates.Record their names and responses in your notebook.Asking your classmates for specific information such

as; What college do they want to attend? Is it a 2 or 4 year college? What major would they like to study? Do they want to join the military? Are they planning to

go to boot camp or a military academy? Do they want to work right away? Do they have a career

in mind or do they want to attend a Trade/Vocational school?

Agenda 5/12/2010

Quick-write to be completed in your notebook.Summarize what you learned from Miss Victoria’s

presentation.Review the answers for your extra credit…too late to turn

it in.Use your notebooks to review the A-G requirements.

You will be asked to add the approved A-G courses into a chart.

Create a schedule that meets the AHS graduation requirements and A-G list.

Homework: Use page 88 of the Guidebook and visit 1 website in each category, take notes. Return on Friday with a 1 page report (minimum) about what you learned and print out verification that you visited each site.

Objectives

Students Shall;

Summarize the information that they learned from yesterday’s presentation.

Become familiar with the entire list of CSU campuses.

Receive preliminary information about the A-G requirements.

Attempt to create a class schedule that meets AHS graduation requirements and A-G requirements.

Quick-write

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.Chinese Saying

Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.Martin Luther King, Jr.

CSU campuses

San Jose St. Fresno St. Sacramento St.

Long Beach St.

San Diego St. Chico St. Sonoma St. CSU Monterey Bay

CSU Fullerton

CSU Northridge

CSU East Bay CSU Los Angeles

CSU San Bernadino

CSU Dominguez Hills

San Francisco St.

Humboldt St.

Cal Poly Pomona

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

CSU Stanislaus

Calif. Maritime Academy

CSU Bakersfield

CSU San Marcos

CSU Channel Islands

Complete the College A-G requirements chart in your notebook.

9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade

History/Social Science

English

Math

Laboratory Science

Foreign Language

Visual Performing Arts

College Prep Electives

Build a Schedule for next year

Subject Matter Course Meets A-G & High School Graduation Requirements, Yes/No

History/Social Studies

English

Math

Laboratory Science

Foreign Language

Visual/ Performing Arts

College Prep ElectivesWill you remember to keep this and ask your counselor to give you this schedule?

Agenda 5/14/2010

Period 1 must summarize in their notebook what they learned from Miss Victoria’s presentation.

Return your home work from Wed., searching the internet (Guidebook page 88) and your 1 page report.

If you finished your sample college admissions essays return them.

Continue to use your notebook and finish the A-G requirements chart.

Build your own, detailed, schedule for next year.Time permitting, work on your sample college

admissions essays.

Objectives

Students Shall;Continue to examine the A-G requirements

for college admission.Learn which classes at AHS satisfy the

graduation and A-G requirements.Build a detailed schedule of their ideal

schedule for next year.

Complete the College A-G requirements chart in your notebook.

9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade

History/Social Science

English

Math

Laboratory Science

Foreign Language

Visual Performing Arts

College Prep Electives

Build a Schedule for next year

Subject Matter Course Meets A-G & High School Graduation Requirements, Yes/No

History/Social Studies

English

Math

Laboratory Science

Foreign Language

Visual/ Performing Arts

College Prep ElectivesWill you remember to keep this and ask your counselor to give you this schedule?

Agenda 5/17/2010

Any old website search report (Guidebook page 88) or Sample College Admissions Essays need to be turned in right now.

Examine popular careers with our classmates.“What did you learn about the requirements to get

into college?”Quick-write, ‘What college or job would you like to

attend or have after high school?’Create a list of questions that you would like

answered about college.Examine UC Merced and Fresno State

Objectives

What Careers Were Popular with AHS Freshmen? Record the Results in Your

Notebooks.

How Many…DoctorsLawyersDentistsNursesLaw Enforcement OfficersAnd what other jobs did AHS Freshmen find

interesting?

What did you learn about the requirements to get into college?

Do you know your G.P.A.? Is it good enough to apply to college?

Do you know what test scores are important for college?

Who can you ask for letters of recommendations? Are you sure that you will get someone to write you letters of recommendation?

What are extracurricular activities? Do you have any?

What kinds of essays do you have to complete?Did you learn anything else?

Group up…you all need to be in groups of 3.

You have 5 minutes to think of as many important questions about college as you can think of.

Have a member of your group write them down on a piece of paper. Make sure that you write down who thought of the question.

When I tell you have someone in the group bring me your list of questions.

I will try to answer your questions as best I can. If you are serious about going to college, you should write down my answers.

Agenda 5/19/2010

Complete the survey from Miss Victoria.Use the A-G list to complete a schedule for

next year. If you already have, either think of questions that you want to ask Mrs. Hodges or help a classmate with their schedule.

Review key information about UC Merced & Fresno State.

I will try to answer some of your questions related to college.

Homework…

Objectives

Students Shall;

Complete the exit survey from Miss Victoria.Plan your schedule for next year.Examine information about UC Merced and

Fresno State University.

Majors at UC Merced, Bachelors Degrees and Minors

Bioengineering Cognitive ScienceComputer Science and Engineering, Economics, B.A. Environmental Engineering Literatures and CulturesMaterials Sciences and Engineering ManagementMechanical Engineering Political ScienceApplied Mathematical Sciences Psychology, B.A. Biological Sciences HistoryChemical Sciences Anthropology

Earth Systems SciencePhysics

Listed below are the 2009-10 standard costs of attendance for undergraduate California residents living:  

On-Campus Reg Fee* $7,788 Campus Fees* $623 Health Insurance $967 Living Expenses $12,211, Books and Supplies $1,552 Personal Expenses $1,347 Transportation $1,352 TOTAL COST $25,840

Off-Campus Reg Fee* $7,788 Campus Fees* $623 Health Insurance $967 Living Expenses $8,164 Books and Supplies $1,552 Personal Expenses $1,481 Transportation $2,125 TOTAL COST $22,700

At-Home w/ Relatives Reg Fee* $7,788 Campus Fees* $623 Health Insurance $967 Living Expenses $4,277 Books and Supplies $1,552 Personal Expenses $1,854 Transportation $1,946 TOTAL COST $19,007

Cost of attending UC Merced 2009-2010

Facts and Figures about Fresno State

Established in 1911.Campus is 388 acres in size without including the

university farm.More than 1,000 professors are on staff.In 2008 more than 22,000 students.More than 13,000 female students…more than 9,000

males.82% of new Freshmen stay and finish their degree.Student Ethnicity: African-American 1,200, White

8,200 Hispanic 7,400 , Asian 3,300, Native American 208

Popular Majors: Counseling, Psychology, Education, Social Work, Nursing, Engineering, Business

Fresno State Dorms

Homework

Imagine that it is 2013, and your favorite college has sent you an acceptance letter.

Imagine all the honest feelings that you would have… are you excited, scared, happy, nervous, who would you like to thank?

So write a brief narrative, 200 words or more, about how that day would feel like to you.

Objectives

Agenda 5/21/2010

Periods 1 and 2, if you have your essay about receiving a college acceptance letter, turn them in. Period 3, you have until Monday.

Quick-write, to be completed in your notebook.

Review for final exam.Introduction to your homework and extra

credit…Guidebook and Workbook Assignments.

Quick-write

"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves-and be free.“

Cesar Chavez

Final Topics

1. Balancing a Checkbook.2. Economic “Wants” and “Needs”.3. Graduation requirements.4. Courses on the A-G list.5. The systems of higher education in

California.

Can we review? Will earning extra credit convince you to try?

Homework Parental Interview. Due Monday

1. How far did you go in school?2. What level of education do you want me to achieve?3. Do you know what I want to be when I grow up?4. Do you know who are my teachers, principal, vice-

principal, and counselors are? If not why not?5. Do you know what classes I’m taking? Do you know

if they meet both the high school graduation and college admissions requirements?

6. Do you know if I am passing or failing my classes? What about my grade point average?

7. Are you involved with my school? Do you think they’re more ways that you can get involved with my school?

Extra Credit

Choose 1 CSU campus and 1 UC campus, except UC Merced. Visit their websites and search for majors/degrees offered

and find at least 1 majors or degrees in; History/Social Science Sciences Math English

Look on the list of majors and find 1 that was new to you, it was interesting to you, and explain why.

If you need help look for: Academics, Schools, Departments, and Degrees, or just type it in the search box.

Guidebook and Workbook

Read Guidebook page and then complete the exercises on page 119 of the Workbook.

Read Guidebook page 102, “The Fighting Spirit”, complete the exercises and then work on 121.