Journals and Reflections

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Journals and Reflections

• A Time to Dream

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JournalJanuary 26, 2009

• List all the relatives you know or have heard
  members of your family mention. Select one you
  know or one you dont know to write about.
• 8 10 sentences after your list.

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ReflectionJanuary 26, 2009

• After todays ratiocination activity, how will
  I improve my epilogue for my senior legacy?
• 6 8 sentences

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JournalJanuary 27, 2009

• List ideas for improving
• education. Choose one idea
• and explain why that one idea
• would improve education and,
• in turn, society and the quality
• of peoples lives.
• 8 10 sentences

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ReflectionJanuary 27, 2009

• Why is it important to
• read and rewrite an
• essay more than once?
• 6 8 sentences

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JournalJanuary 28, 2009

• List ideas for creating technology that will
  improve existing technology. Choose one idea and
  explain how that one idea may revolutionize
  technology as we know it.
• 8 10 sentences

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ReflectionJanuary 28, 2009

• Why is technology important?
• 6 8 sentences

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JournalJanuary 30, 2009

• List some of your dreams and goals. Select
  one and explain why this is your dream or goal
  and how you will go about achieving it.
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalFebruary 2, 2009

• List the range of feelings you experience when
  you are asked to write. Choose one of those
  feelings and explain why you feel that way about
  being asked to write.
• 8 10 sentences

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ReflectionFebruary 2, 2009

• Reflect on the things you learned about the
  way you write after reading and responding to the
  writing of your peers.
• 6 8 sentences

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JournalFebruary 3, 2009

• List the places at school that are significant
  to you. Choose one of the places on your list
  and explain why you selected that place.
• 8 10 sentences

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ReflectionFebruary 3, 2009

• How do you think Langston Hughes would react
  to what is happening in America today? Explain.
  How would the events reflect in his poetry?
• 6 8 sentences

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JournalFebruary 13, 2009

• What does Valentines Day mean to you? Express
  yourself in poetry. Write a poem and put it in
  the card you made.

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JournalFebruary 16, 2009

• Look around you and write down as many sights
  as possible in ten minutes (at least 10).
  Observe everything. Soak up all visual stimuli as
  if you were a sponge. Be explicit in your
  descriptions. Highlight one particular sight that
  you consider intriguing enough to write about.

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JournalFebruary 17, 2009

• Write about the one particular sight you
  highlighted yesterday. Be explicit in your
  descriptions, writing for ten minutes without
  stopping to make corrections.

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JournalFebruary 19, 2009

• Describe one of the conflicts in the play so
  far. Make connections to a current event,
  another piece of literature, and your personal
  experiences.
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalFebruary 20, 2009

• Which character in scene 1 do you most identify
  with? Explain.
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalFebruary 23, 2009

• Suddenly, I became me What memories do I
  have of my first five years of life before
  school? What stories do relatives tell about me
  when I was little?
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalFebruary 25, 2009

• School bells Write about memories of
  elementary school. How did you change? How did
  your family change?
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalFebruary 26, 2009

• Grew up here! Reflect on the places you have
  lived. What is your neighborhood like? Describe
  your bedroom over the years. How has it changed?
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalFebruary 27, 2009

• Middle School What memories do you have of
  this time in your life? Tell about teachers,
  friends, activities, ups and downs.
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalMarch 2, 2009

• New Kid on the Block So how was freshman
  year? How is it different from middle school?
  What are the myths of high school? Are any of
  them true?
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalMarch 4, 2009

• Sophomore and Junior Years Write about
  learning to drive, beginning to date, first job,
  more school activities, looking forward to the
  end of high school.
• 8 10 sentences

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ReflectionMarch 4, 2009

• Answer the essential question.
• 8 10 sentences

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JournalMarch 5, 2009

• At last, Im a senior! Beginning in the
  summer before school starts, reflect on the most
  important experiences of senior year.
• 8 10 sentences