New Year

Welcome back!
(Rabbit, rabbit)

Today

• Looking Back, Looking Ahead
• Your Year, YOURSELF, THe world's Year

RETROSPECTION Reminiscence

YOU WILL NEED...

• Journal
• Phone (yes, that's right)
• Ipad

Write Away

• How was your 2023?
• explore photos, files, notebooks, planner, texts, etc.
• Aim for at least 1/Month

What to look for

• Memorable moments
• highs, lows
• funny/cringe
• people: connections, shared experiences
• places: outside adventures, travels
• accomplishments, points of pride
• what A "normal" Day looked like
• Change, growth

A one-word title for your year?

Or, if 2023 wERE a chapter in your autobiography,
the title?

where are there stories?

Today:

• 1. New Years activities
• 2. review Vocab list 4; Scavenger hunt
• 4. end of TERM: what to know; looking ahead

Coming Soon

• 1. Revision of paragraphs
• 2. our first "everybody" book: House on mango st.
• 3. writing from our lives

A look Ahead: 2024

• More...
• Less...
• Hopes, wishes
• Goals, intentions
• words

What was 2023 like in the world?

NEw York Times: A year In Photographs

24 for 2024

word of the year

• What is YOur "One-word Intention" for 2024?

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?
• 5. Image/art

Mine: GuMPTION

• 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.
• 3. This word connectS to my life because I often suffer from decision paralysis. I delay making choices or taking action.
• 4. This will look like giving myself due dates for taking action

Google's "Year in Search":

• try to predict:
• "Can I..."
• "How to..."
• "how to be..."

Also...

• 1. Top searches
• 2. People
• 3. songs
• 4. ......NEAR me
• 5. "playground" game

Your "WOTY":

• Nailed it/Failed It
• Nailed it: instance where you embodied your intention. impact? Failed it: A time when you struggled: challenges or obstacles? Future...? "I will" "I won't"

WriTe Away: Vocab Venture: An interactive Quest