Career Choices / Possibilities Cross Reference

The following is a suggested cross reference guide. It is designed to assist you in deciding when to incorporate the stories, poems, essays, plays or speeches with the corresponding activities and exercises found in Possibilities.

Career Choices is a sequential curriculum. This outline assumes you are working through the Career Choices textbook from beginning to end in the order presented.,

You'll want to have a copy of the textbook, Career Choices: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults: Who Am I? What Do I Want? How Do I Get It?, and Possibilities: the Supplemental Anthology to look up the following activities. If you don't already have a copy, you can order a 60-day review set.

Chapter 1

Envisioning Your Future

Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Read after completing pages 10-13 in Career Choices

Psalm of Life
Dreams
I Have a Dream... speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read after completing page 14 in Career Choices

Work, an excerpt from The Prophet
Read after completing page 15 in Career Choices




Richard Cory
Read after completing pages 18-21 in Career Choices




Chapter 2

Your Personal Profile

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Read after completing pages 28-29 in Career Choices

Alice in Wonderland
Read after completing pages 28-45 in Career Choices

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sympathy
Read after completing pages 28-53 in Career Choices

Life
Read after completing page 52 in Career Choices

Self-Reliance
Read after completing page 53 in Career Choices




Chapter 3

Lifestyles of the Satisfied and Happy

Growing Older
Read as an introduction to the "Looking into the Future" exercise on page 129 in the Instructor's and Counselor's Guide

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
Read after completing pages 60-61 in Career Choices

Red Geraniums
Read after completing pages 66-69 in Career Choices




Chapter 4

What Cost This Lifestyle

The Mills of the Gods
Read after Ivy Elms' story on pages 74-75 in Career Choices

The Savings Book
Miss Rosie
Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Read after completing page 103 in Career Choices

Gift of the Magi
Read before assigning "Money Isn't Enough" on pages 104-105 in Career Choices

A Legacy for My Daughter
Read after completing pages 114-121 in Career Choices




Chapter 5

Your Ideal Career

I Decline to Accept the End of Man
Read after completing Chapter 5 of Career Choices




Chapter 6

Career Research

Life on the Mississippi
Read after reading page 146 in Career Choices

Lego article
Read after completing page 147 in Career Choices

I Hear America Singing
Read after completing page 165 in Career Choices




Chapter 7

Decision Making

The Monkey's Paw
Read after completing pages 168-174 in Career Choices

The Road Not Taken
Read after completing page 177 in Career Choices

To Build a Fire
Read after reading page 179 in Career Choices




Chapter 8

Goal Setting

Uphill
Read before beginning Chapter 8 of Career Choices

The Myth of Sisyphus
Read after completing pages 182-185 in Career Choices

Prince of Tides
Read after completing pages 182-191 in Career Choices




Chapter 9

Avoiding Detours and Roadblocks

Hope
Expect Nothing
Read together after completing pages 194-199 in Career Choices

A Dream Deferred
Read after completing pages 214-215 in Career Choices

Mother to Son
Read before completing pages 196-197 in Career Choices

A Noiseless Patient Spider
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Read after completing pages 216-217 in Career Choices

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Read before completing pages 208-209 in Career Choices

George Gray
Read after completing pages 216-221 in Career Choices




Chapter 10

Attitude is Everything

The Necklace
Read after completing pages 232-235 in Career Choices

Tonia the Tree
Read after completing pages 242-245 in Career Choices

To Be of Use
Read after completing pages 238-241 in Career Choices

Be the Best of Whatever You Are
Read after reading page 246 in Career Choices




Chapter 11

Getting Experience

Looking for Work
Read after completing pages 250-259 in Career Choices

The Bridge Builder
Thank you, M'am
Read after completing pages 262-263 in Career Choices




Chapter 12

Where Do You Go from Here?

If
Read after completing pages 270-273 in Career Choices

Ex-Basketball Player
Read before beginning to work on "Your Plan" on pages 279-280 in Career Choices

25th High School Reunion
Read after you complete "Your Plan" on pages 279-280 in Career Choices