Bon Jour nal

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Bon Jour nal

• A Journey in Literacy
• Valerie Hill
• Lewisville I. S. D.

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journey -noun ,French jour-day

• a traveling from one place to another
• a distance, course, or area traveled
• a period of travel
• passage or progress from one stage to another

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journal noun Latin diurnal-daily

• daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or
  observations
• a newspaper, esp. a daily one.
• a periodical or magazine, esp. one published for
  a special group

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passage -noun

• a way of exit or entrance a road, path,
• channel, or course
• 2. the action or process of movement from one
• place, condition, or stage to another
• 3. a continuous movement or flow
• 4. a right, liberty, or permission to pass
• 5. a usually brief portion of a written work or
  
• speech that is relevant to a point under
• discussion or noteworthy

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Reading and Writing are interconnected.

• Reading is like breathing in (inhalation).
• Writing is like breathing out (exhalation).
• Instead of air, we breathe ideas (thought).

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Journal Metaphors
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Bruce Coville
The journal is like a fishhook you can drop in
your brain and pull out memories very
efficiently.
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Logan Judith Lehne

• My journal is like a soft, tattered quilt some
  rough spots, threadbare in places, but its real,
  handmade and it keeps me warm.

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Terry Tempest Williams

• My wordsare almost embers from a fire. I can
  blow right back into them and begin to see the
  entire scene.

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Jim Arnosky

• Since I thought of myself as an artist, I
  decided to keep a sketchbook. I took it with me
  in the canoe and everywhere I went. I found
  myself sketching, but also writing, mostly
  reflections about my observations of wildlife.

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Gretchen Will Mayo

• My daily observation journal is my footprint on
  the path. I believe that we are all on a
  journey, thats what life is.

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Quote from Janet Emig

• Persons who themselves dont write cannot
  sensitively, even sensibly help others to learn
  to write.