Describe your Passage in the opening paragraph. You could use the newspaper format of who, what, when, where, why and how. Try to make your statements as clear as possible – write them as if someone who knew nothing about the school were reading your proposal.

Identify your quest. State the quest in terms of a personal goal that involves challenge and risk. Tell why this is an appropriate quest for you.

 Tell how you will reach your quest. Be specific.

Tell why your Passage is a challenge to you and what risks (physical, financial, social, and intellectual) you expect to experience.

Describe your preparation for this Passage. Include your strengths, past experiences, and training you plan to pursue prior to beginning.

Describe experiences that have prepared you for the challenges and risks you will face. Include the following:

• Courage – attempting to reach a goal in spite of fears. Identify the fears you have about this Passage and describe ways you can confront and overcome them.

• Endurance – the ability to withstand difficulty with finesse. You must go beyond merely “surviving” to demonstrate strength and perseverance.

• Intelligent Decision-Making – responsibility in action. Show that you are able to consider important factors such as safety, support systems, itinerary, emotional and physical self-preservation, and contingency plans to deal with the unexpected. Show that you are able to do what you need to do, not only what you want to do.

• Self-Reliance in an Unfamiliar Environment – the ability to apply skills and knowledge to new situations. Show how you will apply learning from past experiences to your quest.

Select a book to read that is related to your Passage; why did you choose this book?

Explain which Graduation Expectation/s you expect to address?

Describe the resources you have (personal strengths – motivation, knowledge, skills, abilities; people; books; materials; etc.). Describe the resources you will need, and how you will obtain them.

Describe your personal strengths and weakness in the following areas: self-concept, motivation and follow through, relationships with people and the environment, self-directed learning.

What do you anticipate to be your greatest obstacles and how do you hope to overcome them?

Identify possible peripheral learning.

Describe your first step in beginning this Passage and list your steps, in order, toward completion. A timeline with checkpoints may be helpful.

How will you document this Passage? How will you show changes in skills, attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge?

Indicate HOW YOU WILL KNOW IF YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR QUEST. State how you will know when this Passage is complete and the proposed date of completion.

Describe your Passage as you proposed it. The description should be written clearly, with attention to main events and/or highlights, so a person unfamiliar with you and/or the school could understand this experience. Balance a need to “summarize” with the equal need to detail the process you used to successfully complete this Passage experience.

Tell what you accomplished and how you know you reached your goals. Describe your newfound vision resulting from completing your quest.

Describe turning points or highlights within the experience. These can be documented with excerpts from your journal.

Describe what obstacles, challenges, and risks (perceived and real) you encountered in this Passage and how you dealt with them. Describe unexpected events, setbacks, and opportunities. Explain whether or not your initial expectations were realistic.

Describe the experiences that you faced. Include the following:

• Courage – attempting to reach a goal in spite of fears. Identify the fears you have about this Passage and describe ways you can confront and overcome them.

• Endurance – the ability to withstand difficulty with finesse. You must go beyond merely “surviving” to demonstrate strength and perseverance.

• Intelligent Decision-Making – responsibility in action. Show that you are able to consider important factors such as safety, support systems, itinerary, emotional and physical self-preservation, and contingency plans to deal with the unexpected. Show that you are able to do what you need to do, not only what you want to do.

• Self-Reliance in an Unfamiliar Environment – the ability to apply skills and knowledge to new situations. Show how you will apply learning from past experiences to your quest.

List all the resources you utilized (personal strengths – motivation, knowledge, skills, abilities; people; books; materials; etc). Be specific.

Describe the book you read and how it applied to your Passage.

Which Graduation Expectation/s did you successfully address?

Describe peripheral learning or unexpected learning that occurred in this Passage.

Describe how you have documented this Passage. Keep a portfolio to document significant events, challenges, risk-taking, problem-solving, and decision-making throughout the Passage. Show how you have changed and become more self-aware. 

The closing statement could include the following: how you feel about yourself and the completion of this Passage, why this Passage has made a difference in your life, where you will go from here with further exploration or experiences.