"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
