|
Each student has a composition book within which they will write (sometimes draw) their journal entries. Entries are assigned at the beginning of the week and, unless noted otherwise, are due on Friday at 2:30. With the exception of lists, poems, pictures and the like, journal entries are expected to be one page in length.
Week 21 - Due Friday, February 10
61. Write a one-page reaction to Baraka.
62. What role does sports play in our society. Why do we care?
63. Create a piece that contains an example of met Week 20 - Due Friday, February 3
58. Write a piece about your science fair project. How did it go? What went smoothly? What was challenging?
59. Write your Eye of the Potato arcicle.
60. Make a list of 10 magical objects.
Week 19 - Due Friday, January 27
55. Write a rough draft of your artist report.
56. Write the final version of your fiction piece.
57. Draw a piture of you hagning upside-down
Week 16 - Due Friday, January 6 46. Write an email to your artist. Due Thursday.
47. Write the story of your winter break.
48. Draw a picture of a memorable moment that took place during break. Week 15 - Due Friday, December 16
43. Sit quietly for 20 minutes in your chair. Write about this experience.
44. This is your last set of journal entries before the end of theyear. What New Year's resolutions do you have?
45. You open a gift from someone. What is inside?
Week 14 - Due Friday, December 9
40. Finish your “Final Rough Draft” of your fiction piece. These will be submitted to Scholastic next week. 41. In your view, what is the single most important contribution that came out of the period we are currently studying? Look at the reading and pick one thing. Why is this item the most important?
42. Draw a picture of the first wheel in action.
Week 13 - Due Friday, December 2
38. Look at something. Describe it.
39. List your 10 favorite words. Week 12 - Due Tuesday, November 22
34. Thankfulness. What are you thankful for?
35. Process the first trimester. How is it going? What are your thoughts on how things are going for you.
36. The five things that must be on a table at Thanksgiving… Week 11 - Due Friday, November 18
33. Finish your lit studies paper.
Week 10 - Due Friday, November 11
30. Use the reading provided in your packet to write the story of humanity in the Neolithic Age.
31. Use the reading on Golbelki Tepe as a model to write the story of humanity in the Neolithic Age.
32. Type up the piece on fear you wrote in our writers workshop on Monday. Week 9 - Due Friday, November 4
27. All Saints Day is, for some, an opportunity to think about the departed. Write about someone you have lost. You can also write about death in general if you have not experienced the loss of someone close to you.
28. Write about a special place to you.
29. Write a poem. Week 8 - Due Friday, October 28 24. How can autumn be a metaphor for life?
25. Has your family always lived in Lancaster County? As best you can trace their migratory route to this place. You can do this through a diagram, a map or the written word.
26. Starting with any word you choose, write a list of twenty words. The last letter of the first word will be the first letter of the second word. Continue this pattern throughout. The last word will finish with the first letter of the first word.
Week 8 - Due Friday, October 21
21. Assuming that humans are continuing to evolve, what reasonable directions do you see things going in the future?
22. Who are you?
23. If someone gave you an airline ticket, where would it be to? Why?
Week 7 - Due Tuesday, October 18
Please do this work on a sheet of notebook paper. You could also compose this work in GoogleDocs. If you do this I could read and help you edit it while I am away.
Write a piece about responsibility as it appears in The Little Prince
Try to include a topic statement such as… Responsibility is a major theme in The Little Prince.
As per our conversation, there are three major places where responsibility appears. The Little Prince and volcanoes, baobab trees (People and things) The Little Prince and the Rose (People/relationships) The pilot and his airplane (Adult responsibility)
Week 6 - Due Friday, October 7 16. We have been talking about Human Fundamental Needs. Write about the need for food. How has the way humans have met this need changed over time?17. Describe your trip to school from your home until you reach the fourth floor. 18. Write a letter to someone. Talk to me if you are not sure how to approach this. Week 5 - Due Friday, September 30
13. Write the story of the Universe from the Big Bang until 7 million years ago and the dawn of humans.
14. You have done entries related to peace and non-peace. How can people develop peace in themselves, in their interactions with others and how can nations have peace?
15. List the 10 best things.
Week 4 - Due Friday, September 23 10. Last week you wrote about peace and what it means. This entry is about non-peace (or conflict or war). What is the cause of non-peace? Think about this on personal, community-wide and national/international levels.
11. Write your Eye article. You are welcome to write this in your journal or you can type your article. Please know that you will be required to type your article and transfer it to the Eye template.
12. Draw a picture of you doing something you like.
Week 3 - Due Friday, September 16
7. What is peace?
8. This is the thrid week of school. How is it going for you? What do you like? What is challenging?
9. Observe the classroom. Write what you see, but only use verbs.
Week 2 - Due Friday, September 9
4. Rememberance can be a powerful and meaningful thing. It can also be a hinderance that can be a trap and stifle growth and progress. Write a page about rememberance. Why is it important? Why do we need it? What negitives, if any come up related to remembering the past. Please try to use specifics as you deal with this topic.
5. Write your Eye article. You are welcome to write this in your journal or you can type your article. Please know that you will be requried to type your article and transfer it to the Eye template. (More on that process later.)
6. Write a poem.
Week 1 - Due Thursday, September 1
1. You turn over a rock. What do you find?
2. Make a list of the five most important questions humans can ask? (Hint: go below the surface. 3. Write about one single event from the summer. Note: I did not ask you to write about your summer or what you did this summer or where you went this summer! I am asking you to write about one event. This event could have taken place in an afternoon, in one day or over several days. |
|
|
Journal Entries |