Goal-Setting+Visual+Essay

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Visual Essay Example -

**Goal Setting: A Visual Essay**

A visual essay can be an entirely visual piece or it can combine images and writing. The length of these essays varies (usually between 6 and 12 pages). The theme/message of a visual essay is conveyed/shown through powerful images and minimal words.
 * What is a Visual Essay?**

Your job is to create a visual essay of your goals for first quarter of 8th grade, the rest of this academic year, high school, college and beyond.
 * Goal:**

You may select pictures from online resources, and you will use these to visualize your goals. The images you choose must represent your goals and what you will do in order to achieve these goals.

You will begin by writing 3-5 paragraphs about your goals for this year, 8th grade overall, high school and college. **This piece will be started in class, but you may have to complete it at home; the writing piece must be turned in to Edmodo with your visual essay.**
 * Requirements:**

After you have written the 3-5 paragraph goal-setting paper, you will need to pull out the key ideas and begin choosing a theme to follow in your visual essay. For example, if you have a long-term goal of becoming a valedictorian in high school, you will need to think of how you can start planning for that now. You would then find pictures to illustrate how you will reach this goal and the others you wrote about in your paper.

Your visual essay must include 8-12 slides, and can include no more than 20 words total.

Each of the images you choose should represent a goal you have set for this quarter, this year, high school, college, and life after college.

When choosing images, think about your academic goals as well as goals for your personal/social life, your family, etc.

The photos and text must be organized on a Prezi, and you will present this Prezi and your overall essay as a speech to the class.

**Visual Presentation in Class – Rubric**