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These sketchbooks will become writing and drawing journals for students to reflect on these unprecedented times and visualize goals for the future. The idea for this project came from the book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, where the goal is to uncover your potential creativity. Each chapter requires attention to your inner artist and gives thought-provoking tasks to help pinpoint your individual potential. I have adapted the exercises in the book to help students process what they have been going through so they can use their experiences for self-discovery and betterment. These journals will become a safe place they can develop their art and writing skills, visualize goals for the future, and collect ideas and resources to get there. They will be doing drawings that visualize jobs that they may do when they are adults; sketch the areas that hold them back to problem-solve how to progress; write letters to themselves now as if they were 80 and lived their dreams; create and collage a visual file as a resource to project success; and many other lessons that encourage their best selves to emerge. Because these will be so personal and special to the students, it's important that they have mature sketchbooks to record this time in their lives that will hold up for years of reflection.

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These sketchbooks will become writing and drawing journals for students to reflect on these unprecedented times and visualize goals for the future. The idea for this project came from the book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, where the goal is to uncover your potential creativity. Each chapter requires attention to your inner artist and gives thought-provoking tasks to help pinpoint your individual potential. I have adapted the exercises in the book to help students process what they have been going through so they can use their experiences for self-discovery and betterment. These journals will become a safe place they can develop their art and writing skills, visualize goals for the future, and collect ideas and resources to get there. They will be doing drawings that visualize jobs that they may do when they are adults; sketch the areas that hold them back to problem-solve how to progress; write letters to themselves now as if they were 80 and lived their dreams; create and collage a visual file as a resource to project success; and many other lessons that encourage their best selves to emerge. Because these will be so personal and special to the students, it's important that they have mature sketchbooks to record this time in their lives that will hold up for years of reflection.

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