2. Life Works Better With a Plan
Reflect on your own future and research how to
make your dreams come true.
You are not expected to know exactly how your
life will unfold, but studies show that even
people who don’t follow their plan do better
by having one.
4. Research Your Future in 5+ Chapters,
plus a tone-setting quote, a dedication
page, and an introduction paragraph
Examples (you pick your own topics)
My career
My geographic home
My future family
My hobbies
Travel plans
My philosophy of life
My social life
How will I stay in touch with my
friends?
What will make me happy?
How will I maintain my health into
old age?
How will I contribute my fair share to
humanity?
What issues are dear to me and how
would I support them?
How will I live when I am 70?
How can I earn money on the side?
How might this year’s reading
influence my life? (Write a paragraph
on each book read so far)
5. Write a Life-Plan Book
• Five chapters – five topics
– Each chapter must be a minimum 400 words
12 Times New Roman always
– Each topic requires research with quotes or
paraphrasing with citations linked to a closing list of
sources
– Each chapter must contain a plan that can begin
tomorrow. Explain how you can methodically work
toward this goal.
– Each chapter must contain graphics – illustrations,
charts, diagrams, other inserts
– No white space; each chapter begins on new page
6. MLA Version – Desktop Published
Version
• MLA Version:
• Your rough drafts, revisions, final draft will be
text only written in a shared Google Doc
• Research sources will be cited with quotes and
paraphrasing. Citations will lead to a last-page
list of resources used
• Desktop Published Version:
• We will employ the design elements found in
Microsoft Word
7. Two Essay Formats
MLA
• Cover page
• Chapters formatted as
headings
• Work cited page
• Headers (name) & footers
(pg)
• Use our vocabulary words
throughout!!!
– Don’t force them in. Fit them
in.
Desktop Publishing
• Tone-Setting Quote
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Single-spaced two columns
• Graphics, diagrams, photos
• Each chapter starts on new
page – no white space
8. Format Requirements & Additional
Elements
• Cover Page
• Headers & Footers
• Tone-setting quotes
• Dedication page to 25 influences
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Table of figures
• Chapter # on its own HEADING 1 line
• Chapter Title on its own HEADING 2 line
• Two-column text
• Each chapter must start on a new page, and you cannot have any
white space at the bottom of any chapter pages
• USE VOCABULARY WORDS IN CONTEXT THROUGHOUT!!!!!
9. Grading
• One grade for writing x2
• One grade for design x1
• Due Date: later
