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Writing Journal Topics
2023-2024
Marking Period 1
Writing Journal: each entry must be 200+ words
1. My summer vacation.
2. Describe what you think might happen in the next five years.
3. What do you want to be when you grow up?
4. How do I matter?
5. Write an origin myth for something: the origin of cell phones, Instacramp, cupcakes, or anything you can imagine.
6. Considering the origin myth of the Onondaga, Modoc, and Navajo, explain with which culture you would choose to live.
7. Write your thoughts about a monthly focus on different cultures, heritages, and diversities that exist under our republic. Our focus this October is Latino American Heritage, what do you know about Latino American culture/heritage?
8. Describe a time you discovered or explored something new.
9. Freewrite
10. Class Evaluation: me, you, it, and/or what.
Marking Period 2
Writing Journal: each entry must be 200+ words
1. What are you thankful for?
2. If someone gave you $3000 during Thanksgiving Break, what would you do with it?
3. Search for a career and write about it: After Education
4. What vice or weakness do you find the most offensive?
5. Look in the grade-level gclass and respond to the postings of Mr. Lamaestra about drugs and alcohol. Write your thoughts and feelings about what you learned.
6. My winter break plans...
7. What is society's responsibility to people suffering hardship: homelessness, floods, fire, abuse, poverty...?
8. If you could change one or two things in the world, what would it (they) be?
9. The Snow Day 2024
10. Class Evaluation: me, you, the class, the world, the universe.
Marking Period 3
Writing Journal: each entry must be 200+ words
1. Favorite music, movie, game, car, comic/manga...
2. John Lewis: watch the Good Trouble Trailer and who is a hero of change to you?
3. Freewrite
4. Why is there still racism in America today?
5. What happened to George? Write a 200-word narrative of what you think is George Milton's unknown fate.
6. Each year, many teenagers run away from home. What do you think are the chief causes?
7. NJGPA: positives and negatives
8. Research a woman who was the first female to work in a traditionally male field. What kind of struggles do you think she faced?
9. What is more important to study: space, ocean, disease or environment?
10. The end is near...are you prepared for 12th grade? Explain why you should be in the Honors class.
Marking Period 4
Writing Journal: each entry must be 200+ words
1. What role does respect play in your relationships with friends, family and strangers?
2. Who was Olaudah Equiano?
3. Discuss what making good choices means for one's past, present, and future.
4. How do you feel when someone judges you without knowing you or giving you a chance?
5. Research some topics for Asian Heritage Month: leaders, foods, important places, events...
6. Write about something that is making you laugh recently and about some unexpected interests/distractions you have discovered.
7. Freewrite
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10. How do you imagine the future: tomorrow, next year, five years, twenty years, 100 years?