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 and list the practical skills you will master and demonstrate through this Passage. Be specific.

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

Identify the RISKS you will be taking and tell how you will deal with them.

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

Indicate your current skill level and how you have depended on others in the past.

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.

Include a proposed budget and a list of materials. Consider including a statement concerning how you might conserve materials.

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? 

Tell how you will demonstrate an increased level of proficiency.

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.

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. Indicate what kind of documentation you will use. It is essential that your documentation be detailed, clear, and specific. Possibilities include: photographs, journals, videos, portfolios, letters of reference.

• The best documentation is actual performance of the skills.

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.