Last year at the beginning of grade 9 one of our first mini assignments was to create a poster showing our face and a goal that we would have for the year, my goal was to read more books as it would increase my vocabulary and my knowledge about writing.

This year we’re doing something completely different, this year we have to chose three “Smart Goals”. A smart goal is a well thought out and planned goal, it shows each step and how you are going to achieve your goal. To show our goals we needed to record our voice talking about each goal and have a well thought out visual to go along with each goal. We had a topic for each goal but it was our choice to choose the goals, the first goal was to choose something about our work in school, second was for our attitude as a person and third was for our work outside of school. Below is the audio recording as well as the visuals that I made for this assignment.

Now I’ll talk more about my goals and why I chose the , my first goal is to be more organized with my school work.

My organization skills have never been very good, but being in PLP makes organizing a lot easier as we don’t use textbooks and mainly just use our iPads. My iPad is very unorganized and finding old assignments and projects to look back to has never been that easy, the textbooks for my classes outside of PLP have never been organized and losing homework is quite easy for me. So this year I’d like to have folders and organize all my homework and notes for every class so I can easily find them when I need them, and for as my PLP classes I’ll have different folders for each subject and have my notes better organized.

My second goal is about my attitude as a person. I chose to be more patient, sometimes I’ll rush a project or an assignment and won’t put my best effort in or I’ll take people’s criticism about my work negatively. I’d like to be more patient with others and their opinions as it has helped me before but I’d like to always take others opinions as suggestions and not become un impatient.

And my final goal is about my life outside of school. I chose to manage my time better as my life can get quite hectic at points, from balancing time with my friends and my homework, to finding time to spend with my family and also having to go to work and make money. Sometimes I’ll make bad choices like putting my friends over my school work when an assignment is due the next day and I’ll hand in my homework late which is never good, and sometimes I’ll be out with my friends all weekend and spend no time with my family. I’ll have to leave time for my school work and my job, my family and friends, and also leave time to relax.