JOURNALS
Daily activities
Journals Quarter 3 Quarter 3 journals will be checked Thursday, March 19
Journals are part of students' writing grades.Writing counts 50% of the overall grade. Journals are graded on completion and will be graded at the end of each quarter. Students have time in class to write in their journals and may come in during Patriot Period to finish or add to their journals. Journals not in the classroom on the due date will still be accepted, but will lose points for being late.
Period 3B journals are in bold.
1. (Period 3B) Name 3 characteristics of a good friend. Discuss these.
1. (2.) If you had just become principal of AHS, what is the first change you would make? Why?
2. (3.) Complete the following sentence and then write your journal about your sentence.
"I wish everyone would learn to . . . then everyone would . . .
3. (4.) Which is more important, the effort one puts into something or the results he/she achieves?
4. (5.) Suppose you are a motorized vehicle. What would you be? Why? [Note: Consider size, speed, color, style, and use.]
5. (6.) If you were to design a video game, what would be the object of the game? Who or what would the players be? How would
you win?
6. (7.) What do you want to be when you "grow-up?"
7. (8.) What do you think is the best activity to do during a break or holiday from school?
8. (9.) If it was reported that a giant meteor was going to hit and destroy Earth tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?
9. (10.) Do you think students should be required to get a high school diploma before getting a driver's license? Why or why not?
10. (11.) Write about a time when someone reneged on a promise or commitment to you. How did you feel? What did you do?
11. (12.) Student Choice
Journals Quarter 2
Journals are part of students' writing grades.Writing counts 50% of the overall grade. Journals are graded on completion and will be graded at the end of each quarter. Students have time in class to write in their journals and may come in during Patriot Period to finish or add to their journals. Journals not in the classroom on the due date will still be accepted, but will lose points for being late.
Quarter 2 Journals
1. If you could go anywhere on earth, where would you go? Why?
2. Student Choice
3. Not including your phone, what is one thing you could not live without?
4. Do you have a characteristic or skill that others do not know about you? Explain.
5. What is your favorite poem or song? Explain.
6. Talk about a person or ideal you would like to copy. Explain.
Journals Quarter 1 Journals will be collected/checked October 24
Journals are part of students' writing grades.Writing counts 50% of the overall grade. Journals are graded on completion and will be graded at the end of each quarter. Students have time in class to write in their journals and may come in during Patriot Period to finish or add to their journals. Journals not in the classroom on the due date will still be accepted, but will lose points for being late.
Quarter 1 Journals
1. What is your favorite movie? Why?
2. If you could make three wishes, what would they be? Why? [You cannot wish for more wishes.]
3. Did you ever have to make a difficult decision? What did you do?
4. Student Choice
5. What is the most important issue or idea for you at this moment? Explain.
6. If you could see into the future, what would you do to change it? Why?
7. Choose a piece of clothing you own. If it could talk, what story (stories) would it tell about you?
8. Student Choice
9. What is the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to you?
10.Imagine you had to leave your home right now. What 5 items would you take with you? (that you could carry) Explain.
11.Student Choice