Vision (Goal) Board



What Is Your Life's Blueprint?On October 26, 1967,?six months before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia.I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you fell that you're nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life — what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well.And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you--doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers — and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."This hasn't always been true — but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in — stay in school.And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.DIRECTIONS: Please base your answers to the following questions on “What is Your Life’s Blueprint?” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.What is the best definition for the term “blueprint”?A paper describing a local building’s constructionA pattern to followA newspaperWriting of those suffering from segregationDr. King says which of the following is most important in the blueprint of our life?A deep belief in our own self-worthA well-paying careerFriends and familyHonestyWhich is the second basic principal we must have in our blueprint?TrustSympathyEconomic plightDetermination to achieve excellenceDr. King states you should “always feel that your life has ultimate significance.” In this context, what does the term significance mean?EmptinessMeaninglessGoalsMeaningfulness (importance)Ralph Waldo Emerson is described as beingA great essayistGod AlmightyMichelangeloAn amazing songwriter“What is Your Life’s Blueprint?” is the title ofA painting by MichelangeloAn essay by Martin Luther King Jr.A newspaper article by Ralph Waldo EmersonA speech by Martin Luther King Jr.All of the following advice was given to students exceptStay in school.Study hard.Be the best of whatever you are.Drop out when school becomes challenging.Writing Task:Write an essay?in which you discuss Your Life's Blueprint. ?What are the three things that MLK Jr. believes that you must include in your blueprint. ?What are your dreams? How do you hope to achieve them? What changes can you make in your daily life to make those dreams possible? Who will you rely on when you encounter barriers? What will give you strength to overcome adversity?Vision Board Task:Success on any major scale requires a clear vision and consistent action. Nothing will happen by itself. It will all come your way once you have a clear vision and consistent thinking and action based on your vision. One method of creating and observing your progress towards your goals is to create a vision board, a visual created to illustrate what he or she wants in this life. A vision board is a personal collection of individual desires and no restrictions are placed on the images or words displayed on the board. A vision board may be a combination of life areas such as school, friends, extra- curricular, family, and/or health or it may only highlight one life area such as school. A vision board is created by pasting images and words on a poster board to display the individual’s goals. The images can be magazine photos, personal photos, or hand drawn pictures and sketches. As well, the words can be cut from media formats or be handwritten.Vision Board Step 1:Students make a circle in the middle of a large piece of paper. For 3 minutes, fill the circle with your personal goals. Write your goals with one or two words. Think "I want or My vision is..." to initiate the brainstorming phase.Vision Board Step 2:Make branches off the center circle with the headings: friends, school, sports, fun, family, games/toys and other. Highlight a word in the middle circle and place it under one of the branches. Continue this procedure until all words are highlighted.Vision (Goal) BoardPeruse magazines to find pictures and words that represent your goals. As well, you may draw pictures or write words to represent your goals.Paste pictures of yourself in the center of your board. Paste the pictures and words on the vision board around your image. Pictures may overlap, words can be pasted on top of images or pictures can be in a distinct order. Students should be encouraged to do the vision board based on their ideas and not those of their friends.Additional Goal Setting TipsBe specific Do not limit your goals because you are unsure how they will manifest Always write the goal in the present tense Write goals for you - not others Revisit the vision board49987204743450004953000726440004886325142875Writing Rubric0Writing Rubric142875428625Vision Board Rubric0Vision Board Rubricleft157416500 ................
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