This curriculum guide includes teaching packets for nine problem areas of study to be included in a core curriculum for 11th-grade or third-year students enrolled in rural agricultural programs in Illinois. Each problem area includes some or all of the following components: suggestions to the teacher, a teacher guide, a competency inventory, an information sheet, student worksheets or assignment sheets with key, demonstrations, job sheets, transparencies, a discussion guide for transparencies, and sample test questions and teacher key. The nine problem areas in this guide are grouped into two units. The first unit, on agricultural mechanics, covers these six problem areas: (1) constructing and maintaining buildings, (2) developing electrical wiring skills, (3) adjusting and maintaining planting equipment, (4) maintaining and repairing small engines, (5) adjusting and maintaining combine harvesting equipment, and (6) developing concrete masonry skills. The second unit, on agricultural business management, covers (1) four ways of doing business in agriculture, (2) marketing agricultural crops, and (3) marketing livestock and livestock products. (KC)