Journals

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Journals

• Your journals are part of your binder grade. You
  must do them. First, write down the journal
  number (Journal 1), the date, then the prompt,
  and lastly jot down what comes to mind. Be
  appropriate!
• You may use the same piece of paper for more than
  one journal entry!

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Journal 1 Delivery!!

• You answer a knock at the door and find a
  delivery guy holding a package for you. You open
  it up and find . . . what? Describe the best
  package you can imagine receiving.

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Journal 2 Epitaph

• On My Headstone.
• An epitaph is sometimes a humorous saying or poem
  engraved on a headstone.
• For example
• Here lies the body of our Anna
• Done to death by a banana
• It wasnt the fruit that laid her low
• But the skin of the thing that made her go.
• What epitaph would you want on your headstone?
  Would it be funny? Sweet? Serious? Write a
  draft of your epitaph.

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Journal 3 Contractions

• Goodbye is a contraction, like dont or isnt.
  Originally, people parted by saying God be with
  you, but over the years this phrase was
  shortened to goodbye.
• List 10 other contractions
• a. f.
• b. g.
• c. h.
• d. i.
• e. j.

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Journal 4 Why Im Famous

• If you could be famous for anything, what would
  you be famous for? You could be an inventor, an
  athlete with tons of championships and
  endorsement deals, a Pulitzer Prize- Winning
  author, the scientist who discovers a cure for
  cancer, an Oscar-winning actor, a rock star, or
  something else entirely. Give me 5 sentences.

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Journal 5 Bad Habits

• Bad habits range from nail-biting to overeating
  to procrastinating to gossiping. What are your
  bad habits? What can you live with, and what
  would you rather stamp out altogether? Give me
  5 sentences in your best cursive.

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Journal 6 Give up a Sense??

• Most people are born with five sensessight,
  hearing, touch, taste, and smell. If you had to
  give up one sense for the rest of your life,
  which would you pick, and why? Give me 5
  sentences.

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Journal 7 Text Me!

• Write a text message to your friend (not a real
  text message but on a piece of paper with a
  pencil in text language). Make is school
  appropriate. For example, U R GR8!

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Journal 8 Dreaded Exercise

• Come up with as many words as you can in which
  the first letter of the word is the same as the
  last letter in the wordEXAMPLE test

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Journal 9 Dirty, dirty kids!

• When youre a little kid, certain aspects of
  personal hygiene seem ridiculous (shower
  everyday? Why, whatever for?) What do you do
  DAILY now that you found ridiculous when you were
  little? Give me an example and three sentences
  to support it.

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Journal 10 Music to my Ears!

• What is your favorite song? How do the words
  make you feel? What images or thoughts come to
  mind when you listen to it? Is this song
  currently popular, or is it a song from your
  childhood? Give me 5 sentences.

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Journal 11 The Power of Change

• If you had the power to change one thing about
  your school, what would it be, and why would you
  want to change it? Give me a thesis (a topic
  sentence) and three supporting details.

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Journal 12 How many words in the Alphabet?

• In the next five minutes, see how many words you
  can come up with that contain some or all of the
  letters in the word alphabet. The one with the
  most words gets a prize!

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Journal 13 Crack the Anagram

• An anagram is a word that has been formed by
  rearranging the letters of another word. For
  example, silent is an anagram for listen.
• Each word in the following sentence has been
  rearranged into an anagram. See if you can piece
  together the original sentence.
• Ethos eel pope ta snake sport ruse era gater.

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Journal 14 Are You a Quick Brown Fox or a Lazy
Dog?

• The following sentence contains all 26 letters of
  the alphabet
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• In the next five minutes, brainstorm as many
  sentences as you can that contain all 26 letters
  of the alphabet.

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Journal 15 An Excellent Experience

• Brainstorm words that contain the letter X. Are
  there any patterns to the kinds of words you come
  up with?

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Journal 16 What are Civil Rights?

• Have you ever thought about what Civil Rights
  are? Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great man who
  fought for equality for ALL people. Do you think
  people still struggle with the concept that we
  are all created equal? Why or why not? Explain
  your answer.