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.

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. 

Explain what you have already done to prepare for this exploration. Describe classes, trips, experiences, community service, internships, Apprenticeships or jobs. Show how these activities motivated or inspired you to investigate this career field even if they involved different areas.

Explain what education or training might be involved in order to prepare for this career, including specific schools or places that you might investigate.

Describe how you will explore related fields.

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.

Prepare a Personal Profile of your strengths and weaknesses in the personal, social, and intellectual domains.

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

Identify possible peripheral learning.

Describe methods you will use to complete this Passage. Include interviews, hands on experience (job shadowing, Apprenticeships, internships or on-the-job training).

List people to interview and tell why you selected each one.

Prepare a questionnaire to use in interviewing people to get information about the necessary skills, attitudes and personal characteristics necessary for this career. You may also want to find out what preparation is needed and what the rewards and challenges are.

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? A resume will be included in documentation.

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 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.

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

Show how this career matches your Personal Profile by describing how your skills, attitudes, and characteristics fit or do not fit this field.

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. Include Personal Profile, resume, interviews, education or training information, etc.

Tell how you feel about doing this Passage and what the next steps for your career exploration will be.

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.