Career Exploration

Professional Athlete
What kind of degree or certification do you need?
There are no educational requirements to be a professional athlete. However, it is advisable for potential athletes to take advantage of any educational benefits (college scholarships, for example) that are offered through sports involvement.
How long does it take to get the necessary training?
During the season and pre-season, an athlete usually spends around 4 hours a day, 5 days a week on physical conditioning and practice. And there may be a team or individual strategy meetings.
What kind of work will you be doing?
Professional Athletes will be training, practicing, working out and traveling.
What kind of wages will you be paid per hour/week?
Athletes generally earn between $20,000 and $90,000 a year.

Stunt person
What kind of degree or certification do you need?
There are no formal educational requirements for stunt people. It is a hard business to get into, and any experience in the film business is an asset.
How long does it take to get the necessary training?
Stunt people have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Depending on what they are asked to do, they risk broken bones, burns, and other types of severe injury on a daily basis. It is for this reason that stunt people spend a great deal of time maintaining their physical conditioning and coordination.
What kind of work will you be doing?
Falling from a tall building or rolling a brand-new car, leaping from planes, dodging explosions, or being set on fire.
What kind of wages will you be paid per hour/week?
Experienced stunt people usually earn between $50,000 and $200,000 a year.

careers

1. Professional Athlete
2. Fisher
3. Dancer
4. Courier / Messenger
5. Tow Truck Driver
6. Stunt person
7. Animal Trainer
8. Model
9. Heavy Equipment Operator
10. Road Construction and Maintenance Worker

The careers I would like to explore further are a Professional Athlete and a Stunt person.
I’m interested in being a Professional Athlete because I’ve been playing sports my whole life and I’ve always wanted to be a Professional Athlete. My sisters got me interested in sports from them playing soccer. So I got into soccer because I liked playing it. And you get payed a lot of money if you play in a professional league and you get famous.

I’m interested in being a Stunt person because I like to perform outrages stunts and I like to have fun. I like to work with heights and doing stunts and I think its fun to do because you get to make people laugh and have fun with stuff. You would get to experience new stunts and make your own.

JOKES/RIDDLES

1) Q: Where were lemons first found?

2) Q: What gets wet the more you dry?

3) Q: What occurs 4 times in every week, 2 times in every month, & once in a year?

4) Q: Why did the girl turn in her math book?

5) Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in a day?

6) Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king ruins town . And beats high mountain down. What am I?
7) I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?
8) What year in this century is the same when its number is turned upside down?
9) What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
10) The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The one that uses it never knows that he's using it. What is it?

IN TEN YEARS

In ten years I will still be living in Michigan and will either be going to Western Michigan University or Michigan State University College. I will be in college for eight years so then I can get a masters degree. I will be twenty-four years old and my two old sisters will be thirty and my little sister and brothers will be twenty-one, seventeen, and twelve.
I will be working at a good place that pays well. I will be living in my own house and will have a 2008 ford mustang in my garage. My job will be my own business and I will be making homemade jumps for bikes, skateboards, scooters, and dirt bikes. And my cousin will be helping because we came up with the idea and I think it would be fun because I always liked to build ramps.
I will have one pet dog and will have a 50 inch plasma TV. I will still have a small house but it would be good enough for me and I will have a skate park in my back yard that I will make. My house will be really cool and will be getting paid well.
I will travel around the world every summer and visit somewhere different each week and I will go everywhere in the world before I die. I will be doing all my school work before anything so then I can get it done and have fun after and I will study for all my test after school if I have any coming up
I will also draw comics or something because I like to draw and make stuff that people like and think is funny and cool. And I might make picture books to for little kids so then they don’t have to read when there 2 or 3.

ABC

· A is for Awesome which mostly describes me.
· B is for bagel is my favorite food.
· C is for competitive which I am
· D is for dog that is my favorite pet to have.
· E is for endless days that seems like it’s really long
· F is for fox which is a really cool animal and a motocross company
· G is for games and I like to play any games
· H is for hangman that I play when I get really bored
· I is for igloo that I build in the winter for my little brothers and sister
· J is for Jake which is my first name
· K is for kind and I am very kind
· L is for Detroit lions because they are not doing good this year
· M is for March and my birthday is in march
· N is for Nike that is a sport company
· O is for Obama and he is our first African American president
· P is for pumpkin pie which is my favorite kind of pie in the world
· Q is for quick because I am very fast so then I can get past people in soccer
· R is for running which I do daily so then I can build stamina
· S is for soccer which is the sport that I have been playing since I was 4
· T is for taco bell and is my favorite fast food restaurant
· U is for USA the country I live in
· V is for victorious and I like to be victorious
· W is for waffles that I eat for breakfast
· X Is for the x-games which is a TV show that I watch
· Y is for you because that is a word I just thought of
· Z is for Zeppa which is my last name

Dirk

DIRK

Vocab
1. Impasse: a road or way that has no outlet
2. Absurdly: the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.
3. Rangy: slender and long-limbed.
4. Brindled: gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.
5. Deftly: dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.

Connections
1. My next door neighbor has 3 dogs and they come over to my house sometimes and run around in my back yard and if someone they don’t know comes over they will be protective.
2. My friend has a dog and it will always bark and act all tough when someone walks by the window.
3. My grandpa has a dog and it’s all rangy and brindled like dirk.
4. My friend has a dog that bit me because it thought I was going to hurt my friend or something.
5. My sister has a dog that is super protective when people it doesn’t know comes over

Questions
1. Why does Gary live in a small town?
2. Why did the gangs not have guns but they had knifes?
3. Why does Gary get paid so little but works so long?
4. What does Gary mean when he said, but I added to my income so that I could stay above water?
5. How old was Gary when all of this happened

Interesting/Important Sentences or Passages
1. Street kid, that tells what he’s like
2. Seven cents a lane , that tells how much he gets paid at his job
3. Dirk would try to remove some part of Happys body every time he saw him, Dirk was Gary’s bodyguard.
4. First time dirk had wagged his tail, the first time dirk was really happy.
5. Give the beast under the stairs half a burger, a distraction.

My favorite teacher

My favorite teacher was Mr. Schmit. He was my seventh grade teacher and he made me realize how important school was for life in the future. I think he’s my favorite teacher because he was funny and really nice, and he didn’t give out a lot of homework ever and he would let us watch movies a lot if all of us turned in our homework for that whole week.
He was funny because he would joke around with us a lot and he would say we had a quiz that same day and that we had a lot of homework. And he was nice because he would never yell at us and if we didn’t finish our homework for that day, he would give us some time to finish it sometimes.
He would give us candy just about every day for answering a question and getting it right. He would give us some for turning in our homework when we had some. He would let us use a pencal when ever we wanted but we had to give him something of ours so then we would give it back.
He let us pick our own seats so then we can sit by our friends. And when we would switch seats the next month or 2 he would ask us if we wanted to switch seats or stay.

School design

The school me and my group are making is a big school with wide hallways so then you can get through the halls without bumping into people. There’s a lunch room/student lounge were all the people can hang out. There’s a plane runway for people who have a private jet. There’s a lake so then people can practice the tubing, wakeboarding, skiing, and kneeborading.

We have a bigger parking lot so then people who have cars can drive to school and park in a lot of space. There’s a plane runway because for everyone that goes to our school gets their own private jet so then if they live far away they can take their private jet to school so then they don’t have to pay money to take a plane.

There are only four classes to take, Math, Science, Language arts, and World history. And if you want to take a fifth hour then you can take Gym because that’s the fifth hour there’s nothing else except if you want to stay after school just to do homework.

We have bigger hall ways so then you don’t get knocked down in the hall or pushed, it would be just like walking out side in the open. You get 10 minutes to get from class to class, and you get 1 hour to just walk around and hang out with friends.