19 April 201019 April 2010

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Where is your favorite place in the Where is your favorite place in the city of Chicago? Why?city of Chicago? Why?

(somewhere outside your (somewhere outside your neighborhood!)neighborhood!)

Life Goals EssayLife Goals Essay Take out a sheet of paperTake out a sheet of paper

Take out your GPA Goal Planning sheet Take out your GPA Goal Planning sheet from a few weeks agofrom a few weeks ago

Divide it in 4 columnsDivide it in 4 columns

High SchoolHigh School CollegeCollege CareerCareer PersonalPersonal

Write as many goals as you can for each Write as many goals as you can for each columncolumn

Questions to help for high school Questions to help for high school goals:goals:

What do you hope to achieve in high What do you hope to achieve in high school?school?What is your GPA goal?What is your GPA goal?What goals do you have for taking What goals do you have for taking challenging courses?challenging courses?What goals do you have for What goals do you have for participating in extracurriculars?participating in extracurriculars?What goals do you have for receiving What goals do you have for receiving particular recognition?particular recognition?

College Goals?College Goals?

What colleges do you want to attend?What colleges do you want to attend? What do you hope to achieve in college?What do you hope to achieve in college? What are your possible majors in What are your possible majors in

college?college? What degrees to you hope to earn What degrees to you hope to earn

(bachelor’s, master’s, professional, etc)?(bachelor’s, master’s, professional, etc)? What goals do you have for participating What goals do you have for participating

in extracurricular activities?in extracurricular activities? What goals do you wish for receiving What goals do you wish for receiving

particular recognition (Dean’s List, particular recognition (Dean’s List, graduation honors, etc)?graduation honors, etc)?

Career Goals?Career Goals?

In what profession are you most In what profession are you most interested?interested?

What will you need to do to prepare for What will you need to do to prepare for this career?this career?

What position would you hope to attain What position would you hope to attain within this profession?within this profession?

How might this career enhance/improve How might this career enhance/improve your life?your life?

Personal Goals?Personal Goals?

By what values do you strive to live?By what values do you strive to live? What commitment would you like to What commitment would you like to

make to your family?make to your family? What commitment would you like to What commitment would you like to

make to your community?make to your community? What lifestyle do you envision for What lifestyle do you envision for

yourself?yourself? Where would you like to live?Where would you like to live? What special interest do you hope to What special interest do you hope to

pursue?pursue?

High High SchoolSchool

CollegeCollege CareerCareer PersonalPersonal

3.5 GPA3.5 GPA 3.5 GPA3.5 GPA Be a Be a teacherteacher

Live in a Live in a househouse

Take 2 AP Take 2 AP classesclasses

Make Make Dean’s ListDean’s List

Be a leader Be a leader in schoolin school

Help in Help in community community (service!)(service!)

Get into Get into NHSNHS

4 yr 4 yr private private schoolschool

Make a Make a differencedifference

Modest Modest lifestylelifestyle

ValedictoriaValedictoriann

French and French and TeachingTeaching

Help Help studentsstudents

Take care Take care of familyof family

Be Be President of President of clubclub

Study Study abroadabroad

Service/Service/

volunteervolunteerRetire in Retire in France France with with husbandhusband

Need at least five goals for each sectionNeed at least five goals for each section

•Highlight your top two goals for each category• Now concentrate on your high school goals

•Out of your five, what are the three top goals?

•Think for a moment what you have done and still need to do in order to achieve these goals.

BRAINSTORMBRAINSTORM

For each high school goal (your top For each high school goal (your top three) you need to make a web/clusterthree) you need to make a web/cluster

Put the goal in the middlePut the goal in the middle On the left side, write what you are On the left side, write what you are

already doing/ have done to already doing/ have done to accomplish this goalaccomplish this goal

On the right side, write what you still On the right side, write what you still need to do in order to accomplish the need to do in order to accomplish the goalgoal

3.5 GPA

Study hard

Come to school every day

Be organized, use AVID Binder as instructed

3.5 GPA

Continue to study hard

Take honors and AP classes (weighted scale)

Go to tutoring and askquestions

SHARE!SHARE!

Share with a partner next to you the Share with a partner next to you the three goals you brainstormed aboutthree goals you brainstormed about

Do you need to add anything else?Do you need to add anything else? Did you chose the right three goals Did you chose the right three goals

to focus on?to focus on? Give advice to your partner and talk Give advice to your partner and talk

about your goals.about your goals.

Quickwrites!Quickwrites!Take five minutes for the following questions Take five minutes for the following questions

(You can write under your clusters):(You can write under your clusters):

1.Why are these goals important to you?

2. Transform your first goal cluster into one paragraph (add punctuation, other ideas, transitions, more details.

3. Transform your second goal cluster into one paragraph (add punctuation, other ideas, transitions, more details.

4. Transform your third goal cluster into one paragraph (add punctuation, other ideas, transitions, more details.

Rubric Rubric

““Explanation of Life Goals” ExampleExplanation of Life Goals” Example– ReadRead– Get into groups of 3Get into groups of 3– Grade the paper according to the rubricGrade the paper according to the rubric– What grade to you give the author? What grade to you give the author?

Why?Why?

Due Dates:Due Dates:

11stst Draft: April 30 Draft: April 30 22ndnd Draft: May 7 Draft: May 7 Final Draft: May 14Final Draft: May 14

With your final draft, make sure to With your final draft, make sure to turn in all pre-write work that was turn in all pre-write work that was done in class these past few daysdone in class these past few days