Goal setting project year 5. Students to select a word to guide their lives in 2018. An alternative to resolutions.

1. One Word, One World
Defining Our Year Together
by Janet Ilko
Health Sciences Middle School
January 2018

2. The Question: What if someone said that you had to trade
in your name for a word that best describes you as your
"ideal self?"
What word would you choose and why?
Why One Word?

3. What word will
define your
year?
Daniel Pink: One Word

4. We will be listening to excerpts from this
book each day as we write our own words
and create our word page.
The Text Behind the Project

5. The first step is to decide what kind of person you want to be at the end of the
year.
What are the qualities or character traits you admire about yourself and others?
What actions do you want to take in 2018? Can you define that in one word?
Make a list of words in your journal.
Ready Go!
How To Choose Your Word

6. Character Traits
Make a list
Action Words
After you have divided your
paper and listed your words,
sit and reflect.
Select a few words to explore.

7. Now it’s time to define your word.
Start with www.dictionary.com and use both the definition page and thesaurus
page to develop your own definition of the word.
Using Pinterest or Google Safe Search, find quotes and images that use or
further define your word.
Save those images in a folder on your desktop.
Define Your Word

8. The University of the Pacific has a
project that we will use as our
mentor text for our own class work.
Please go to this link, and view some
sample pages and words.
http://www.pacificoneword.org/com
munity/
One Word Mentor Text

9. You now have images, quotes and definitions of your word. Write about your
word. What does it mean to you? Why did you select it? How does it reflect
your hopes for 2018?
Mrs. Ilko will share her mentor text with you as one example.
Share your rough draft with a partner and be prepared to share with your
teacher by the end of the period.
Write Your Rough Draft

10. As a final project for our class, we will compile our words into a book, and a
digital movie.
Please create a page that includes:
Your Word
A definition
A paragraph or two about why this word represents who you are
A photo that enhances an image
*optional photo of yourself
*Use the rubric to score your work
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2502107&
Our Final Project: Create a Page

11. Turn it in on our PSL page, so we
can creat our own film to share with
the world.
We will have a team of students pull
together our words and create a
digital book of our work. It will look
something like this
This page will also be saved to your
personal digital portfolio.
Final Notes

12. One Word 365
http://oneword365.com/
University of the Pacific Project
http://www.pacificoneword.org/community/
Gordon, Britton, Page One Word That Will Change Your Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oetiY0EkdQE
Mrs. Ilko Blogpost Her One Word Post
http://writinginmyhand.org/?p=1339
Rubric
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=PrintRubricDownloadFile&rubric_id=2502107&
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