Creating Lives: An Introduction to Biography

Appendix-Implementing State Standards

Delaware's English Language Arts Content Standards:

Standard 1: Use written and oral English appropriate for various purposes and audiences.

Standard 2: Construct, examine, and extend the meaning of literary, informative, and technical texts through listening, reading, and viewing.

Standard 3: Access, organize, and evaluate information gained through listening, reading, and viewing.

Standard 4: Use literary knowledge accessed through print and visual media to connect self to society and culture.

Delaware's Business, Finance and Marketing Core Standards:

Career Development – Students will understand concepts, tools, and strategies used to explore, obtain, and develop in a business career.

Communication Skills – Students will understand the concepts, strategies, and systems used to obtain and convey ideas and information.

Customer Relations – Students will understand the techniques and strategies used to foster positive, ongoing relationships with customers.

Economics – Students will understand the economic principles and concepts fundamental to business operations.

Entrepreneurship – Students will understand the concepts, processes, and skills associated with identifying new ideas, opportunities, and methods and with creating or starting a new project or venture.

Marketing – Students will understand the tools, techniques, and systems that businesses use to create exchanges and satisfy organizational objectives.

Operations – Students will understand the processes and systems implemented to monitor, plan, and control the day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning.

Strategic Management – Students will understand tools, techniques, and systems that affect a business's ability to plan, control, and organize a department or organization.

By using this unit, Delaware's English Language Arts and Business, Finance, and Marketing standards are addressed. My students will be writing and presenting their projects to the class in order to gain interest in what responsibilities entrepreneurs have to their businesses. My students will be organizing and evaluating what important information should appear in their posters and PowerPoints. Having a business is about marketing the product as well as themselves. Customers appreciate a quality product and good service. If customers are not satisfied, they will complain to the owner or refuse to return. In today's marketplace, unsatisfied customers can find a similar product and will purchase somewhere else. While using the Internet and speaking to local entrepreneurs this will help to decide if my students will want to own their business in the future.