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Transcript of 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
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
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
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.
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.