Goal Setting

I mentioned in an earlier post that the students would do another project related to their portfolios after finishing the license plates. We've done those, and so I decided to have the students set some goals. The message I want to send to them is that life takes planning. Live your dream, but be sure you plan how to make it work. To that end, I had them take the goals they had written, and use a thesauraus (we used Merriam-Webster's on-line) to look up words that mean the same things as their goals. Not only was this a good vocabulary exercise, but they were able to see words that betetr shaped their desires in life. After they had a list of words, we copied them into Wordle, and created "Goal Wordles". Here are a few that we've created: