[LIT] (no subject) [personal mission statement]

[Bill IVEY]

"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."
<lit at literacyworkshop.org> on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 11:18 PM -0500
wrote:
>I would like help in developing a lesson plan for 8th grade students to
>write a personal mission statement. Has anyone done this? Any ideas? I
>appreciate any help.

Hi!

The "Thinking about Tomorrow Today" curriculum we use as a resource in
advisory does something like this. I don't remember how exactly it works
and what parts were my adaptation, but basically.
1.  students hypothesize as to what a "mission statement" might be
2.  students look at example mission statements and discuss what they
mean, what their purpose are, do a little comp/cont (we did only school
mission statements)
3.  in my group, the kids then collaboratively wrote a mission statement
for our school and compared it to our real mission statement (they did an
outstanding job, by the way)
4.  I think the next step in the TaTT model is to make a list of elements
of a personal mission statement and then turn them into a paragraph, with
whatever conferencing and revision steps you want to build in.

I hope this helps!

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School