Personal
Reflection
End of the Year
Quote
Investigation,
Self-Reflection,
and Personal
Journey Posters
reflection
End of year journey
OVERVIEW
overview
Lesson prep
Foster students’ self-reflection skills, critical thinking, and
development of personal values with this journey reflection
activity. In this one (or two) day activity students will investigate
quotations about journeys, reflect on their own journey, and
complete a personal journey poster. In doing so, students will
look back at their school year, process their triumphs and
stumbles, and develop understanding of their personal schoolyear journey.
• Assemble class set of journey packets: Overview page,
Quotation Investigation (include two copies), School Year
Journey Brainstorm
• Quotes cut into individual pieces (one for each student)
• White paper that students will create quote posters on
• Art supplies (to make quote posters): colored paper,
scrapbook paper, markers, ribbon, stickers…and other artsy
stuff
• Class set of the “My School Year Journey” poster pages
Overview:
• Distribute the journey packets to students.
• Review the overview page.
instruction
Quotation Investigation:
• Pass out a quote and white piece of paper to each student.
• Explain that they should re-write the quote on the “Quotation
Investigation” worksheet in their packets. Review the rating
system. Give students an opportunity to add any comments.
• Then, explain to students that they will be creating a large
poster for their quote on the white paper.
• Encourage them to write big and neatly. Give students a
chance to make creative, decorative quote posters.
• Once all posters are complete, have students hang them
around the perimeter of the room.
• Explain that students must rotate around the room, read and
copy each quote onto the investigation worksheet, rate the
quotes, and add comments.
• When complete, have students “star” their favorite quote.
• Possible Extension – Have students share their favorite quote
with a partner, small group, or the entire class.
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reflection
End of year journey
OVERVIEW
instruction
ideas
Self-Reflection
• Have students open to the “School Year Journey Brainstorm”
page in their packets.
• Lead students through each question. Encourage students to be
thoughtful in their responses.
• Then, distribute the “My School Year Journey” templates. Have
students use their responses to complete the template. They
should add their favorite journey quote to the top of the
template.
• Share/collect/display.
• To make this a one-day lesson, limit the number of quotes that
students investigate to 10 (rather than 20) and consider skipping
the poster making. Instead students could simply pass the quotes
to ten other people around the classroom or review them in small
groups.
• If your students make the journey quote posters, they make great
bulletin board displays, classroom decoration, or even as school
start décor (for the next school year).
• This activity is part of the Journeys Project – a CCSS-Intensive,
Multi-Unit Project centered around the theme of incredible
journeys (perfect for end-of-year instruction, summer school, or
school start).
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Quotations – Cut into individual pieces. (May need multiples of some to accommodate class size.)
As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU
are the driver and you will drive!
Steve Maraboli
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye
The best journeys in life are those that
answer questions you never thought to ask.
Rich Ridgeway
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found
not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Andersen
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long
journey, most of us would never start out at all.
William Buckley Jr.
Life’s a journey, not a destination.
Steven Tyler
Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence;
A journey is best measured in friends, rather
but by the distance they have traveled from the point
than miles.
where they started.
Tim Cahill
Henry Ward Beecher
The path to our destination is not always a
straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get
lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which
road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that
we embark.
Barbara Hall
It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as
is the way that we treat those we encounter and
those around us, along the way.
Jeremy Aldana
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is
It is the story that matters not just the ending.
the journey that matters, in the end.
Paul Lockhart
Ernest Hemingway
No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even
an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that
matters. It's the finish line.
Julien Smith
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
Bob Marley
How you climb a mountain is more
The journey is the treasure.
important than reaching the top.
Yvon Chouinard
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
Lloyd Alexander
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never
lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance
to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither
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Name ______________________________
Overview
Life’s a journey, not a destination.
Steven Tyler
Each school year brings new triumphs, changes, setbacks, challenges,
successes, people and experiences…and now it is time to reflect. You’ve
probably heard the expression, “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” If that’s
true, then it’s super important to reflect on your personal journey through
this school year.
Let’s take a moment to reflect on your school year journey.
In this reflection activity you will investigate famous quotes about journeys,
complete a reflection about this year, and create a
review of your personal journey.
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Quotation Investigation
QUOTE
RATING
5 = LOVE IT! - - -1 = No Thanks
THOUGHTS
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Self-Reflection
School Year Journey Brainstorm
• Brainstorm a list of 10 words or phrases to describe who you were a year ago.
Include physical and personality characteristics.
• Write about an important lesson you learned in the past year. It could be about
school, friends, hobbies, family, or life. Add details about how you learned the
lesson.
• What are you most proud of during this past year? Why?
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Self-Reflection
School Year Journey Brainstorm
• What was a setback you encountered this year? What could you have done
differently?
• What was something fun and unforgettable about this year?
• What was one of the most significant events of this year?
• Who are you now? How have you remained the same or changed during your
school year journey?
Next Steps:
-
Use your responses from the brainstorm to complete the “My School Year Journey” template.
Add your favorite journey quote under the “My School Year Journey” banner.
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NAME
My School Year Journey
SCHOOL YEAR
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
A
year ago
I was…
An Important Lesson I Learned
SETBACK
PROUDEST MOMENT
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FUN & UNFORGETTABLE
Today I
am…
A
significant
event
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