Just today, we finally got to see our final class mission statement. It said ”Every day, English opens a new chapter. I will pick up my books and pens and take down the monster that is known as doubt.  In English there is no limit to what you can write or what you can read. I will explore new ideas in my daily writing with creativity. I will listen and be involved for the better of the class. This room is where we are on the same team, so we will forgive and understand because everyone has a story. We express ourselves with confidence. Staying focused and showing kindness to others will be the key to success for this year. This is the room where you can be yourself. Be kind to everyone, everywhere, everyday.We’re savage–no one can change that. In the end there is one thing you need to take away from this class, and that is…… YOU CAN DO IT!”

Before trying to finalize the ideas, we had a lot of work.

 

We had to first brainstorm ideas with our group or by ourself. Then, we made those ideas into our group’s mission statement. Next, we voted on which ideas were the best from what we heard. Finally, our teacher wrote a whole class mission statement on the most voted ideas.

 

My favorite part of the whole thing was reading and seeing the final class mission statement that we all worked hard on to make. My least favorite part, on the other hand, was brainstorming ideas. It was really difficult since it felt like our brains were dead at the time we were brainstorming. The easiest and hardest parts, though, were voting on the ideas. The easier part was that all we had to do was raise our hands on the ideas we liked. The harder part was to vote on the really good ideas. There were many of them but we had to narrow it down to a very few amount.

 

But, personally, I think writing the class mission statement was really fun. I think this is somewhat what it felt like to write the Declaration of Independence with all the narrowing of ideas.