You will be responding to different prompts throughout the school year. Make sure that you respond to prompts thoroughly and thoughtfully. Fill the page and use size 14 font. Follow the timeline below for completing your journal responses. Usually, journals will be due every Tuesday and Thursday.
9/13 – Journal 1: Where do you go when you need a “break” or “time out” from the world.
9/15 Journal 2: Write about a time when recklessness or greed affected you.
9/20 Journal 3: Select a hero or heroine placed in a struggle.
9/22 Journal 4: “Don’t get mad. Get even.”
9/27 Journal 5: “Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
10/11 Journal 6: Begin making a list of fictional heroes.
10/12 Journal 7: What is truth?
10/18 Journal 8: What rules must people follow?
10/20 Journal 9: How are observations about our surroundings important?
10/25 Journal 10: Describe a place in your home.
10/27 Journal 11: Describe how each of the seasons affects your mood.
Journal 12: Which is worse: poverty or sickness?
Journal 13: What would you do with one million dollars?
Journal 14: “Men, at some times, are masters of their own fate.”
Journal 15: Who do you know with a tragic flaw?
Journal 16: What does hope mean to you?
Journal 17: Write about a time when you thought you were in a hopeless situation.
Journal 18: Think about what hope looks like.
Journal 19: Why is hope important?
Journal 20: Why do some people struggle with knowing where they belong?
Journal 21: Using the web to find a picture that is similar to your home.
Journal 22: Think of the old cliche.
Journal 23: What is your version of the American Dream?
Journal 24: How do you plan on achieving this dream?
Journal 25: What obstacles stand in the way of your dream?
Journal 26: Why is it important to have a dream?
Journal 27: What happens to people when their dreams are denied?
Journal 28: What does it mean to be an outsider/ displaced person?
Journal 29: Talk about a time you were an outsider.
Journal 30: Make a list of all the individuals/ groups you feel are outsiders.
Journal 31: Should outsiders receive better treatment?
Journal 32: Is it possible to have a country with no outsiders?
Journal 33: Make a list of people who prefer to be outsiders.
Journal 34: What is family?
Journal 35: What invention has the largest impact on humans?
Journal 36:What is the absolute best thing about being a human?
Journal 37:What kinds of things make life painful, unfair and sometimes unbearable?
Journal 38: If you had the power to remove…
Journal 39: Is it ever worth the sacrifice…
Journal 40: In what ways has technology…
Journal 41: How important is it for people to have choices?
Journal 42: What factors/ situations…
Journal 43: Make an argument…
Journal 44: When is it best…
Journal 45: What problems are avoided…
Journal 46: Think of our current society…
Journal 47: Would it be okay…
Journal 48: Describe a personal and contemporary…
Journal 49: Do you agree that everyone…
Journal 50: People should travel…
Journal 51: One does not need love…
Journal 52: Have you ever felt obligated…
Journal 53: What modern day “monsters”…
Journal 54: Where does evil originate…
Journal 55: What seemingly normal…