Goal # 1: Personal Awareness and Responsibility

I know that doing homework or just regular work fast can have both positive and negative consequences, including being bored from having to note to for the rest of class and end up misbehaving. So I will adjust my strategy to accommodate for my ability to complete work early. My first thought on how I could fix this problem is to go more in depth into my responses to the questions or work that is being asked of me. But that can only work for classes like Social Studies or English, but for other classes that are just looking for the answer, like Math or Spanish, I would have to think of a different thing to fill the time. The best answer that I could com e up with was to fill the time with either studying for another class or, if there is a test, studying for that. As long as I am not boring myself to death in classes where I actually have fun. Undoubtedly there is a better answer, but for now I think that it is alright.

Goal #2: Thinking

This year I will try and seek out new learning opportunities through things like Inquiry projects, extracurricular activities and home research out of my own curiosity. For my inquiry project, I plan to research how regular people manage to do terrible things like what the Belgians did in the Congo in the 20th century and not realize what they were doing. Another example would be the Americans in Vietnam and how they were able to have their regular soldiers commit terrible crimes without hesitation and consider it alright at the time just because it is “war.” For the extracurricular activities, I am a competitive athlete and will try to branch out and find out things for optimal performance. For example, different stretches will hit specific muscles for different sports and some other things alike to that. For my own home research out of my own curiosity, it is more on a whim whether or not I feel like going on a 4-hour rabbit hole on the reason Richard Nixon stepped down from the presidency.

Goal #3: Social Awareness and Responsibility

some of the ways I plan on building and maintaining relationships are to continue to branch out into different social situations, whether that is joining a new club or activity or branching out in a class in hopes of building relationships. In terms of maintaining relationships, I know that it is a partnership; both people involved have to make an effort to connect, or else you are in danger of losing that person, so if I don’t have a person that I am friends with in my classes, I will make an effort to reach out outside of class time, i.e., lunch, flex, or even outside of school completely.

inspirational quote to motivate me to complete these goals by the end of the year.