Resumes: Details Give It Flare
“Details Give It Flare!” is an FFA Resume Generator lesson plan in which students review and revise resumes they created with the FFA Resume Generator to add detail and make them more attractive to employers. Through a comparison worksheet, self-editing activity, and peer review using an evaluation rubric, students learn to strengthen the descriptiveness of their resumes.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify ways to improve their resumes to make them more attractive to employers.
- Review their own resumes to determine where more detail can be applied.
- Evaluate and provide feedback on peers' resumes.
- Time required
- 50 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of each student's completed resume
- A copy of the "Details Give It Flare!" worksheet for each student
- A "Resume Evaluation Rubric" for each student
- Various colors of pens, markers or colored pencils
- Multiple sticky notes
- FFA.org
- A completed resume from the FFA Resume Generator (https://resumegenerator.ffa.org/) for each student
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.04Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason. Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal and/or visual methods.
AFNR Cluster Skills
- CS.05Describe career opportunities and means to achieve those opportunities in each of the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources career pathways.
Common Core – Language
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core – Math Practices
- CCSS.MP6Attend to precision.
Common Core – Speaking and Listening
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4Produce clear and coherent writing the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
FFA Precept
- FFAPG-IProfessional Growth: Ability to assume responsibility for attaining and improving upon the skills needed for career success.