AHS.5 Creating a Personal Mission
This is a LifeKnowledge lesson (AHS.5) titled “Creating a Personal Mission” in which students develop and write their own personal mission statement. Through activities such as designing a shield of talents, selecting verbs/values/causes, and reading their statements aloud, students learn to create a mission, identify myths about achieving it, analyze keys to implementing it, and communicate it to others.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Create and write a personal mission.
- Identify myths about achieving a personal mission.
- Analyze keys to implementing and using his or her personal mission statement.
- Communicate his or her personal mission to others.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Advanced High School
- Materials
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- Student Notebooks-one per student
- Writing Surface
- Projector
- AHS.5.TM.A
- AHS.5.TM.B
- AHS.5.TM.C
- AHS.5.TM.D
- AHS.5.AS.A—one per student
- AHS.5.AS.B—one per student
- AHS.5.AS.C—one per student
- AHS.5.AS.D—one per student
- Student Drawings and Lists from Lesson AHS.4
- National FFA Essential Learnings, 2003
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- Who Am I in Light of Serving Others?
- Precepts
- C1: Contemplate the future
- Key Term
- Critics
- Evaluation
- AHS.5.AS.A-D–can be counted as class participation and individual work. Answers to Assessment: No assessment
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.5Communication Strategies – Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.