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LIFE VISION PORTFOLIO

Connecting a Reading with Your Life Vision

In Activity 3.1, you practiced using the Reading Methodology with an article related to your field. This
last assignment asks you to connect a reading to your life vision. As a college student, you are focused on
school, of course. It is a good idea to step back and appreciate who you are as a person sometimes, too. As
Elizabeth Jennings says in her poem Accepted, “This is a time to begin/Your life. It could be new.”

The poem and Life Vision Portfolio entry included here are just samples. To make this entry in your LVP
meaningful to you, choose your own poem, song lyrics, or other reading that connects to what you are
feeling and experiencing now. The poem, lyrics, or reading you select can be any length, but your response
should be one page in length. The LVP entry on the following page is from Star Performer Paula.

First, read and copy all or parts of your poem, lyrics, etc. into your LVP. Then, reflect on why this piece
has significance to you. Be prepared to share some of your reflection with a small group of classmates in
an informal presentation, using the following presentation guidelines:

• Explain how you connected your reading to your life

• Describe what, specifically, about this connection has meaning to your life now

• Describe why these things have meaning to you

• Discuss how the connections you see between your reading and your life speak to your plans and
hopes for the future

Accepted

You are no longer young, Your life. It could be new.
Nor are you very old. The sheer not fitting in

There are homes where those belong. With the old who envy you
You know you do not fit And the young who want to win.

When you observe the cold Not knowing false from true,
Stares of those who sit
Means you have liberty
In bath-chairs or the park Denied to their extremes.
(A stick, then, at their side) At last now you can be
Or find yourself in the dark What the old cannot recall
And the young long for in dreams,
And see the lovers who, Yet still include them all.
In love and in their stride,
Elizabeth Jennings, British poet
Don’t even notice you. b. 1926—d. 2001
This is a time to begin

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