Visual+Essay

**Goal Setting: A Visual Essay**

**What is 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.

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

 You may select pictures from online resources, from your own collection, and also from books/magazines/newspapers.

 The images you choose must represent your goals and what you will do in order to achieve these goals.

**Requirements:** You will begin by writing 3-5 paragraphs about your goals for this quarter, 8 th  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 handed in with your visual essay.** <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Due Mon. 9-20**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Your visual essay must include 8-12 images, and can include no more than 20 words total.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Each of the images you choose should represent a goal you have set for this quarter, this year, high school, and college.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When choosing images, think about your academic goals as well as goals for your personal/social life, your family, etc.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The photos and text must be presented on 11x14 construction paper (I have some to give you), a poster board, or mixed media (power point, video, etc).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Extra Credit Opportunity:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You may set your visual essay to music and time your powerpoint/slideshow to the song you choose. There is a possibility to earn up to 10 extra credit points by completing this type of project. Here is a sample of the type of video you can make for the extra credit option:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjEmCdRyPII&feature=related

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