1/31/11
Dear Past Me
13 lines
2/1/11
Dear Future Me
13 lines
2/2/11
List your top five movies and why you like them.
13 lines
2/3/11
Dear ____, it weighs on me that I never told you . . .
13 lines
2/4/11
The most terrifying moment of my life was . . .
13 lines
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 24-28
January 24, 2011
Describe your two or three best friends as if they were a type of fruit or vegetable. Make sure you correlate the fruit or vegetable to your friend’s personality. (13 lines)
For example,
Mallary is a pineapple. She’s prickly on the outside and has a tough core in the middle. However, if you can get passed her prickly layers, her golden, sweet, personality will make your day. She can always cheer me up when I’m sad.
January 25, 2011
If you have a phone, describe the feeling you have when you get a text or a call and you can’t answer it write away.
If you don’t have a phone, write about whether you’d like a phone or not. What are the advantages or disadvantages (13 lines)
January 26, 2011
Every generation seems to blame its problems on the teenagers of the day. Sometimes, teenagers just get a bad deal! Write about the qualities of teenagers. What’s great about your generation? (13 lines)
January 27, 2011
What is your biggest fear? Are you afraid of the dark? Are you afraid of being alone? Are you afraid of looking stupid? Are you afraid you won’t succeed? Are you afraid of being bullied? Are you afraid you won’t do well at sports? Whatever your fear is, write a fictional story about a character who overcomes that specific fear. (13 lines)
January 28, 2011
Write a story using the words Jello, oranges, eggs, ballet slippers, and a sledge hammer. (13 lines)
Describe your two or three best friends as if they were a type of fruit or vegetable. Make sure you correlate the fruit or vegetable to your friend’s personality. (13 lines)
For example,
Mallary is a pineapple. She’s prickly on the outside and has a tough core in the middle. However, if you can get passed her prickly layers, her golden, sweet, personality will make your day. She can always cheer me up when I’m sad.
January 25, 2011
If you have a phone, describe the feeling you have when you get a text or a call and you can’t answer it write away.
If you don’t have a phone, write about whether you’d like a phone or not. What are the advantages or disadvantages (13 lines)
January 26, 2011
Every generation seems to blame its problems on the teenagers of the day. Sometimes, teenagers just get a bad deal! Write about the qualities of teenagers. What’s great about your generation? (13 lines)
January 27, 2011
What is your biggest fear? Are you afraid of the dark? Are you afraid of being alone? Are you afraid of looking stupid? Are you afraid you won’t succeed? Are you afraid of being bullied? Are you afraid you won’t do well at sports? Whatever your fear is, write a fictional story about a character who overcomes that specific fear. (13 lines)
January 28, 2011
Write a story using the words Jello, oranges, eggs, ballet slippers, and a sledge hammer. (13 lines)
Monday, January 17, 2011
January 18-22 2011
9th Grade Journal Prompt 1/18/2011
this morning by Lucille Cliffton
this morning
this morning
i met myself
coming in
a bright
jungle girl
shinning
quick as a snake
a tall
tree girl a
me girl
i met myself
this morning
coming in
and all day
i have been
a black bell
ringing
i survive
survive
survive
Questions to answer in your journal
1.Describe the speaker of the poem.
2.List one simile and one metaphor used.
3.What do you think the most important word in the poem is? Write it.
4.What do you think the poem is mainly about? (5 lines)
11th Grade Journal Prompt 1/18/2011
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
They eat beans, mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keeping on putting on their clothes
and putting things away.
And remembering…
Remembering with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
Is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes
Questions to Answer in your Journal
1.“Chipware” is an invented word. We usually say dinnerware or flatware. What image of the couples dishes does the word “chipware” bring to mind?
2.What do you think about the phrase “twinklings and twinges”
3.When you think about the “Bean Eater” couple, what do you picture? (5 lines)
7th Grade Journal Prompt 1/18/2011
I’m in a Rotten Mood! By Jack Prelutsky
I’m in a rotten mood today,
A really rotten mood today,
I’m feeling cross,
I’m feeling mean,
I’m jumpy as a jumping bean,
I have an awful attitude—
I’M IN A ROTTEN MOOD!
I’m in a rotten mood today,
A really rotten mood today,
I’m in a snit,
I’m in a stew,
There’s nothing that I care to do
But sit all by myself and brood—
I’M IN A ROTTEN MOOD!
I’m in a rotten mood today,
A really rotten mood today,
You’d better stay away from me,
I’m just a lump of misery,
I’m feeling absolutely rude—
I’M IN A ROTTEN MOOD!
Question to Answer in Your Journal
How do you usually act if you’re in a bad mood? Write about a time when you were in a horrible mood! (1/2 page)
Journal (ALL CLASSES) 1/19/2011
Write about someone who is always there for you, no matter what. When has he/she been a pillar of strength for you? (13 lines)
Journal (All Classes) 1/20/2011
What's something you no longer own that you wish you still owned? Write about what became of it. (1/2 page)
Journal 1/21/2011 (all classes)
“Self-inflicted or did you actually pay for it?”
Tell a story (fact or fiction) about a bad haircut. (13 lines)
this morning by Lucille Cliffton
this morning
this morning
i met myself
coming in
a bright
jungle girl
shinning
quick as a snake
a tall
tree girl a
me girl
i met myself
this morning
coming in
and all day
i have been
a black bell
ringing
i survive
survive
survive
Questions to answer in your journal
1.Describe the speaker of the poem.
2.List one simile and one metaphor used.
3.What do you think the most important word in the poem is? Write it.
4.What do you think the poem is mainly about? (5 lines)
11th Grade Journal Prompt 1/18/2011
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
They eat beans, mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keeping on putting on their clothes
and putting things away.
And remembering…
Remembering with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
Is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes
Questions to Answer in your Journal
1.“Chipware” is an invented word. We usually say dinnerware or flatware. What image of the couples dishes does the word “chipware” bring to mind?
2.What do you think about the phrase “twinklings and twinges”
3.When you think about the “Bean Eater” couple, what do you picture? (5 lines)
7th Grade Journal Prompt 1/18/2011
I’m in a Rotten Mood! By Jack Prelutsky
I’m in a rotten mood today,
A really rotten mood today,
I’m feeling cross,
I’m feeling mean,
I’m jumpy as a jumping bean,
I have an awful attitude—
I’M IN A ROTTEN MOOD!
I’m in a rotten mood today,
A really rotten mood today,
I’m in a snit,
I’m in a stew,
There’s nothing that I care to do
But sit all by myself and brood—
I’M IN A ROTTEN MOOD!
I’m in a rotten mood today,
A really rotten mood today,
You’d better stay away from me,
I’m just a lump of misery,
I’m feeling absolutely rude—
I’M IN A ROTTEN MOOD!
Question to Answer in Your Journal
How do you usually act if you’re in a bad mood? Write about a time when you were in a horrible mood! (1/2 page)
Journal (ALL CLASSES) 1/19/2011
Write about someone who is always there for you, no matter what. When has he/she been a pillar of strength for you? (13 lines)
Journal (All Classes) 1/20/2011
What's something you no longer own that you wish you still owned? Write about what became of it. (1/2 page)
Journal 1/21/2011 (all classes)
“Self-inflicted or did you actually pay for it?”
Tell a story (fact or fiction) about a bad haircut. (13 lines)
Sunday, January 2, 2011
January 3-7 2011
January 3, 2011
Today is the first school day of 2011.
Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? If so, what were they?
If you haven’t made any New Year’s Resolutions, take a minute and make some now. What goals do you have for the year to come. (Half-page)
January 4, 2011
You’ve grown up and are the proud owner of a grocery store. One day you catch a high school student stealing from you. When you talk to him, he doesn’t seem sorry at all. How do you handle the situation (1/2 page).
January 5, 2010
¢Fill in the blanks.
—1. Happiness is the color ______________ because___________________.
—2. Anger looks like a ______________________ because _____________________________.
—3. Love feels like ___________________ because it __________________________________.
—4. Sorrow is a ____________________________________________.
—5. Commitment is like a ____________________.
January 6, 2011
¢Do you think it is important to travel, why or why not? (3 lines)
¢Do you think it is important to learn about other cultures, why or why not? (3 lines)
¢Should students be required to learn a foreign language, why or why not? (3 lines)
¢If you were going to visit another country, which one would it be ? Why? (3 lines)
January 7, 2011
It’s your lucky day! You’ve found a magic wand. Trouble is, you only get to have the wand for an hour. Once you perform your first bit of magic, your time runs out in sixty minutes.
What hour would you choose to use the wand? What would you do with the wand?
January 7, 2011
It’s your lucky day! You’ve found a magic wand. Trouble is, you only get to have the wand for an hour. Once you perform your first bit of magic, your time runs out in sixty minutes.
What hour would you choose to use the wand? What would you do with the wand?
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