Monday: Perfect Playground (You may replace up to half of the written text of this journal with a drawing of the playground you would design) or Office Supply Creativity Challenge.
Tuesday: Blind Date or Forbidden Facebook.
Wednesday: Why do humans invent stories? Why do we read/watch/listen to stories that we know are fictional? or How would your life be different if government's only function and power was to punish violent crimes?
Thursday: Fictional Evil Species or Conjoined Twins.
Friday: Free Write
Check Your Current Grades
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Journals for Week of 4/22/2013
Monday: Political Sponsors or Pirate Curses.
Tuesday: Free Write or Things Worth Knowing.
Wednesday: Where Did They Go? or Something To Say.
Thursday: Style or Formulaic Reviews.
Friday: Magical Smartphone or iPhonus.
Tuesday: Free Write or Things Worth Knowing.
Wednesday: Where Did They Go? or Something To Say.
Thursday: Style or Formulaic Reviews.
Friday: Magical Smartphone or iPhonus.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Journals for the week of 4/15/2013
Monday: One of the purposes of school is to teach students to think critically about social issues. What issues should public school deal with and what treatment should they recieve? Should teachers- paid by the government- be permitted to express their own views to students who may be very impressionable? (alt: What prepares you best to face the challenges of adulthood and how does it do it?)
Tuesday: Losing someone to a slow, incurable disease. (alt: The skills everybody should have in order to survive and why.)
Wednesday: Hitler is to evil as X is to good or Too late for Earth, too early for the stars.
Thursday: The argument goes that the reason we have full days of school on AIMS testing days is so that we don't have to spend extra time in classes at the end of the school year to make up missed days. It has also been stated that going to school just for the test (and then going home immediately thereafter) is a waste of a day. On the other hand, some people feel that having a full day of classes on testing days increases discipline issues. They also believe that having short testing days would allow students to relax more between tests and thus help them to perform better. Which side do you support and why? (alt: Imagine you are making first contact with an intelligent alien life form on their own planet. What sort of first impression do you want to leave them with? What do you want them to think about humanity in general from their experiences meeting and communicating with you?)
Friday: Anterograde amnesia refers to an inability to form new memories after a traumatic event. Essentially, the victim can remember everything up to the event, but nothing that happened after the event (typically, short-term memory remains intact, but events that happened as little as an hour previously are forgotten). Retrograde amnesia refers to an inability to recall events that happened before a traumatic event (this is the traditional amnesia, where the victim can't remember details of who they are or what they were doing). If you had to choose whether you had anterograde or retrograde amnesia, which would you choose? Why? (alt: If you had a choice between always telling the truth (without being able to evade or not answer) or always lying convincingly (without ever being able to choose to tell the truth), which would you choose and why?)
Tuesday: Losing someone to a slow, incurable disease. (alt: The skills everybody should have in order to survive and why.)
Wednesday: Hitler is to evil as X is to good or Too late for Earth, too early for the stars.
Thursday: The argument goes that the reason we have full days of school on AIMS testing days is so that we don't have to spend extra time in classes at the end of the school year to make up missed days. It has also been stated that going to school just for the test (and then going home immediately thereafter) is a waste of a day. On the other hand, some people feel that having a full day of classes on testing days increases discipline issues. They also believe that having short testing days would allow students to relax more between tests and thus help them to perform better. Which side do you support and why? (alt: Imagine you are making first contact with an intelligent alien life form on their own planet. What sort of first impression do you want to leave them with? What do you want them to think about humanity in general from their experiences meeting and communicating with you?)
Friday: Anterograde amnesia refers to an inability to form new memories after a traumatic event. Essentially, the victim can remember everything up to the event, but nothing that happened after the event (typically, short-term memory remains intact, but events that happened as little as an hour previously are forgotten). Retrograde amnesia refers to an inability to recall events that happened before a traumatic event (this is the traditional amnesia, where the victim can't remember details of who they are or what they were doing). If you had to choose whether you had anterograde or retrograde amnesia, which would you choose? Why? (alt: If you had a choice between always telling the truth (without being able to evade or not answer) or always lying convincingly (without ever being able to choose to tell the truth), which would you choose and why?)
Monday, April 8, 2013
Journals for the week of 4/8/2013
Monday: Don't know much about... but I do know...
Tuesday: Are You Worth Your Weight in Gold? or The Story You Tell Yourself.
Wednesday: Explain what you think every person needs to know in order to understand American Football. (Alt 1: Explain what you think every person needs to know in order to understand the Klondike Gold Rush; Alt 2: What benefit in the modern world do students attain from studying poetry?)
Thursday: Work or Rumspringa.
Friday: In the 40s and 50s, by and large, people trusted the government; what changed? (Alt: Have the terrorists won? Why or why not?)
Tuesday: Are You Worth Your Weight in Gold? or The Story You Tell Yourself.
Wednesday: Explain what you think every person needs to know in order to understand American Football. (Alt 1: Explain what you think every person needs to know in order to understand the Klondike Gold Rush; Alt 2: What benefit in the modern world do students attain from studying poetry?)
Thursday: Work or Rumspringa.
Friday: In the 40s and 50s, by and large, people trusted the government; what changed? (Alt: Have the terrorists won? Why or why not?)
Monday, April 1, 2013
Journals for the week of 4/1/2013
Monday: Write a short story about your first day (at school, learning to dance, as a baby, etc.) in spoonerisms. (alternative: Tell someone's life story in reverse, from death to birth.)
Tuesday: Write a first-person narrative without ever using the words he, she, it, or they. (alternative: Write a third-person narrative without ever using the words I or we.)
Wednesday: Write insults (alternative: write clever compliments)
Thursday: Tall-tale excuses (no alternatives)
Friday: Project Specific (alternative: Free Write)
Thursday: Tall-tale excuses (no alternatives)
Friday: Project Specific (alternative: Free Write)
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