New Year

Write Away

• How was 2019?
• RETROSPECTION:
• Highs? lows? vivid moments?
• aim for 1/month
• (idea: go through photos and planner.)

accomplishments or signs of personal growth?

A one-word title for your year?

How about a Hashtag?

A look Ahead

• 2020
• A hope
• A fear
• A resolution or Personal goal
• A prediction

Today

• Looking Back, Looking Ahead, around the room:
• Your Year, YOURSELF, THe world's Year

NEw York Times: A year In Photographs

Write Away

• What is YOur "One-word Intention" for 2020?

Steps:

• 1. Write the word
• 2. Copy an official definition
• 3. Why? Connect to your life. Why does it matter?
• 4. What will it look like in action?

Mine:

• 1. Gumption
• 2. the ability to decide what is the best thing to do in a particular situation, and to do it with energy and determination:

Today:

• 1. Finish New Years Stations (due EOD)
• 2. Preview Vocab list 5; copy and "stoplight tag" (quiz 1/14)

Coming Soon

• 1. 3 poems (yours)
• 2. our first "everybody" novel
• 3. Choose a new Ind. read