8th Grade  Project 1 week

Goal Quest: Chart Your Path to Success

Isaiah C
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Purpose

This project guides you in developing a personalized system for managing your academic and personal goals effectively. Through engaging activities like creating vision boards and goal-setting charts, you'll explore strategies for balancing tasks and managing stress. By collaborating with peers and a school counselor, you'll gain valuable insights and refine your self-management skills. This journey culminates in a Reflection Gallery, showcasing your growth and shared experiences.

Learning goals

Your learning goals for this project include developing a personalized system to effectively manage and track your academic and personal goals. You will explore stress management techniques and incorporate them into your daily routine to enhance your well-being. Additionally, you will improve your ability to reflect on your progress and challenges through daily journaling, and engage in meaningful peer feedback sessions to refine your goal-setting strategies. Finally, you will gain insights into balancing various aspects of your life through discussions with a school counselor and by sharing experiences with your classmates.
Standards
  • Common Core - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
  • Common Core - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • Common Core - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.5: Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.

Products

Design a personalized goal-setting chart, either on paper or digitally, to map out your academic and personal milestones with clear deadlines. Engage in a group discussion to evaluate the effectiveness of your goal-setting system, sharing insights and improvements. Display your daily reflection journals in a 'Reflection Gallery' to foster a collaborative environment where classmates can read and discuss each other's experiences and progress.

Launch

Begin your project with a 'Vision Board Creation Session' where you gather materials like magazines, posters, and digital tools to craft visual representations of your academic and personal goals. Use this session to explore your aspirations and set the stage for your project journey. Share your vision boards with classmates to inspire each other and discuss the goals you aim to achieve.

Exhibition

Facilitate a 'Reflection Gallery' where you display your daily reflection journals, inviting classmates to read and discuss shared experiences and insights. Set up stations for each participant to showcase their goal-setting charts and present their stress management techniques. Organize a gallery walk where peers can provide feedback and engage in meaningful conversations about the strategies and progress shared. Encourage participants to reflect on the feedback received and consider how it can inform their future goal-setting and self-management practices.