2.  Preparation for Life and Work  Strengthening Families  Enabling Communities

3.  Clothing and Fashion Design  Relationships  Child Development  Culinary Arts/Catering 2014-15

4.  Leadership  Community Service  Career Preparation  Personal Improvement  Competitive Events  Learn lifelong skills – goal setting, time management, and organization

5. Curriculum and Expectations

6.  Be prepared for class – meaning to have your needed materials, and pen/pencil, assignments done.  Be on time  Be responsible for your make-up work.  Be cooperative as you will be working with others  Be respectful to others opinions  Be a great listener!  Know your username and password to get on the computers.

7. UNIT 1: Growing as a Person  Your life path, environment  Personality development  Self-concept, positive attitudes  Coping with emotions, anger, stress, depression, suicide  Decision-making skills, values and goals

8.  Communication skills  Self-esteem  Conflict resolution and management  Friendships  Relationships with family  Relationships with adults, working relationships

9.  Dating relationships  Understanding love  Challenges in dating relationships – teen dating violence, sexual behavior, STD’s, teen pregnancy, abstinence, taking responsibility, sexual harassment

10.  Choosing to marry  Building a strong marriage  Adjusting to marriage

11.  Family functions with society  Family structures, balance work and family  Family life cycle  Interaction in families, communication, decision, conflict, family violence and abuse

12.  Crisis in the family, coping with chronic illness, disability drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment and financial crisis  Divorce and remarriage  Families change over time, middle years, retirement years, and elderly years  Death in the family

13.  Journals  Weekly Point Sheets  Performance Assessments such as projects – some individual and some group  Quizzes/Test  Video response sheets  Worksheets  Some out of classroom work such as interviews, readings, and complete class assignments  Brochures, power point presentations, games