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Daily Journals
Huntington Beach High School
2006-2007
Journal #1
• Describe what you did this summer.
Please add two things that you
enjoyed and one that you did not.
Please elaborate!
Journal # 2
• September 11th!
• How does this make you feel? Do you
remember where you were when it
happened? What were you doing?
Please feel free to share any
personal stories or reflections. How
has this event changed history?
Journal # 3
• A challenge is something that you try
that is hard to do. Describe the
biggest challenge that you have had
to face. What happened? How did you
deal with it?
Journal # 4
• Some people believe that we should
always tell the truth. Others believe
that if the truth can hurt someone,
then we should not speak at all. What
do you believe and WHY???
Journal # 5
• Cell phones are not aloud to be used
inside of the Huntington Beach city
libraries. Do you think that this is a
good idea? The library is a public
area. Should cell phones be banned
in public areas?
Journal # 6
• Schools around the country are going
“online.” What would you do if HBHS
CLOSED and all of your classes
where held online. What do you think
the classes would be like?
Journal #7
• The city of Huntington Beach has a
law that outlaws smoking on the
beach. What do you think about the
law? Why do you think that this has
become a law?
Journal # 8
• Respect is when you look up to
someone and think that what he/she
does/ says is important. Give your
own definition of respect. Describe
someone that you respect. Give
examples...
Journal # 9
• You have just inherited $250,000!
Without using it on yourself, what do
you do with the money? Who do you
give it too? Explain your answers.
Journal # 10
• If you could be another person for a
day, who would it be? Why? Write
about this person and what about
them you like.
Journal # 11
• If you had the freedom to travel
anywhere in the world where would
you go? Why? (Please be descriptive.)
Journal #12
• Name one aspect that you like best
about school and one aspect that you
despise about school. What are the
characteristics about school that
would persuade me to believe the
same way.
Journal # 13
• If you could choose what year that
you would be born in what would that
be, (1776, 1960, 2020,…) Please
explain your reasoning.
Journal # 14
• Some legislators would like to make
school six days a week, and two hours
longer a day. Do you believe that this
is a good idea? What is you reasoning
for your answer?
Journal # 15
• What skills, knowledge, and
experiences do you think are
important to learn before you
graduate? Why do you take the
classes that you do? What would you
add or take away from your classes?
Journal # 16
• There have been many discussions
within politicians about changing the
legal driving age from 16 to 18 years
old. What do you think about this
idea? Why do you think this has
become such a HOT topic?
Journal # 17
• What is your opinion about “Block
Scheduling?” What are the positive
and negative aspects of this type of
education?
Journal # 18
• What did you do this weekend? Do
you have a regularly scheduled event
every weekend? What would you do if
you could?
Journal # 19
• What do you think would happen if
you were trapped in a movie? What
movie would you like it to be? What
character would you be and why?
Journal # 20
• TESTS… What is your feeling about
taking tests? Do you think that they
are important? Do you believe that
they are effective? What do you
think are the BEST types of tests,
(multiple choice, fill-in, essay, oral,
ect.)?
Journal # 21
• Ten years from now what will life be
like? Will you be married? Are you
leaving Huntington Beach after
graduation? Will you be working or
still in school? What will your life
be like?
Journal # 22
• Money, Power, or Fame…
• Which is the most important to you?
Why? What makes this quality most
important? Explain your answers.
Journal # 23
“If you don’t want to get tackled, don’t
carry the ball.”–author unknown
• What do you think this quote means?
How does this quote apply to your
life?
Journal # 24
• What do think about the rain? Do you
like rainy days? What is you mood
like during a rainy day? Why do you
think the rain changes peoples view
of the day? Would you like it to rain
even more?
Journal # 25
• Write down the lyrics to your
favorite song. What do they mean?
And, what do they mean to you? How
do you think this song may affect
other peoples lives? (Include the
name of the song, and the artist.)
Journal # 26
• Is there too much violence in the
media? (This includes ALL versions of the media.)
How do you think it affects you life?
Do you think that it may affect your
life differently than it affects
someone else's?
Journal # 27
• Election Day… If you could vote who/
what would you vote for? Why do you
think that it is important for people
to vote? As a regular voter, why
should I vote for your person/ cause?
Journal #
If you were in charge of offering
classes what classes would you
offer, (in this department)? Classes that
could be offered… Child Development,
Consumer Affairs, Culinary Arts,
Dietetics/ Nutrition, Environmental
Design, Fashion Design, Fashion
Merchandizing, and Management.
Journal # 28
• Why do you think that men and
women still have their stereotypical
jobs? What are these jobs and have
they changed over the past few
years? Do you believe that these
stereotypes are changing? How/
Why?
Journal # 29
• If you could have super human
powers what would they be? Would
you use your power for good or evil?
Do you think that you might end up
abusing your power? Please explain.
Journal #30
• I love the Olympic Games! If you had
the ability to perform in the Olympic
Games what event/ sport would that
be? Who would be your greatest
competitor and where would your
games be held?
Journal # 31
• Should Huntington Beach High School
enforce a specific, school-wide, dress
code, (3/4 length skirt, pants, collared shirt,
white socks, ect.)? How would this affect
you personally? How would it affect
the school?
Journal # 32
• Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
• With Thanksgiving just around the
corner, what do you plan to do on this
national holiday? Does your family
have any fun or odd traditions on this
holiday? If there was anything that
you could do, what would it be?
Journal # 33
• After Thanksgiving…
• What happened over your long
weekend? Did you go to any SALES?
Was there anything that you wish
could have happened? Did anything
unexpected happen? What kinds of
foods did you eat?
Journal # 34
• Describe your favorite teacher.
What makes them your favorite?
Why is this teacher different then
your other teachers? What makes
them special?
Journal # 35
• The holidays are coming upon us. If I
gave you an unlimited amount of
money and only able to buy for one
person; what would you buy for that
person? Why?
Journal # 36
• What have you done so far to
prepare for the holidays ahead? Does
your family have any special
traditions that you enjoy? What do
you do to prepare for this season?
Journal # 37
• What would you rather be doing? If
you could be doing anything at this
moment what would that be? Where
would you be?
Journal # 38
• How do you feel about using animals
for testing of medical research? If
yes, which tests? Who should be able
to? If no, WHY? Please explain.
Journal # 39
• Describe the most difficult
experience that you had to deal with.
What made it so difficult and how
did you deal with it? IF you could
change your reaction, what would you
change it to be?
Journal # 40
• What is ONE thing that you look
forward to doing during your winter
vacation? How do you plan on
attaining this? When will it occur?
And, what will you be doing
afterwards?
Journal # 41
• Describe the best and worst day of
your winter break? Explain why they
were both good and bad.
Journal # 42
• December 26th, 2004 there was a
Tsunami centered near Indonesia. What
do you remember about this date? Do
you feel that it has affected your life
in anyway? What have or thought about
doing for the victims? Where do you
think that they are now?
Journal # 43
• What is one of your “pet-peeves” in
life? (Does it bother you when people chew with
their mouths open?) Do you think that
there are people who do these “pet-
peeves” on purpose?
Journal # 44
• Please interpret the following quote…
– “ Failure is often a better teacher than
success.”- author unknown
Journal # 45
• Please explain the following quote…
– “ Attitude is a little thing that makes a
BIG difference.”- author unknown
Journal # 46
• How technologically advanced are
you? How often in one day do you use
technology? Now… compare this
amount to the amount your parents/
guardians use. Is there a large
difference? Please explain.
Journal # 47
• Evaluate yourself. How did you do
first semester? What else could you
have done? What else could the
teacher have done to help you? Why
do you believe that you received the
grade that you did in this class?
Journal # 48
“Do what you love and money will
follow.”- author unknown
• This quote has been used by many
people when deciding what they want
to do as a career. Do you agree?
Please explain.
Journal # 49
• Reality TV has slowly become a
strong force in regular television.
With “The Real World” being the 1st
“Reality” TV show. How would you
rate the relevance of “Reality” TV?
Do you like this style of television?
Journal # 50
• What is one thing that you could
NOT live without? Elimination of this
ONE thing would cause you to
___?___. Please explain with
emphasis on WHY this is something
that you NEED!
Journal # 51
• List three of the most influential
people in your life. Whether you
personally know these people or not;
How are they influential to you?
Journal # 52
• If you could be a celebrity what kind,
who, or why wouldn’t you be? What
would you do and why? (Miss United
States, …,…)
Journal # 53
• Some teachers on this campus still do
not use the technology available to
them. Why do you think some people
still do not use technology, even if
they have the resources for them to
use it?
Journal # 54
• Describe yourself to me. What would
I not know about you? What is
something people might overlook
about you or your life? What makes
you different? What do you do when
school is over for the day?
Journal # 55
• What does it mean to be successful?
Money, Fame, Intellect, Diplomas,
Family, ect. Are you currently
successful? What do you think that
you need to do to be successful in
your eyes?
Journal # 56
• If you were forced to move out of
the state of California, where would
you go? What would you do? How
would you get there? Why?
Journal # 57
“Books were my pass to personal
freedom.”- Oprah Winfrey
• Do you believe that she was correct?
What do you think is different about
your life compared to hers?
Journal # 58
“Freedom is not something that
anybody can be given. Freedom is
something people take, and people
are as free as they wan to be.”
–James Baldwin
Explain what you think this means.
Journal # 59
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom
and the enemy of growth.”-JFK
Please explain what you think J.F.K.
meant by this.
Journal # 60
“The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with
the heart.”- Helen Keller
• What do you think she meant by this
quote?
Journal # 61
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of
today’s failures, but of the success
that may come tomorrow.”
-Helen Keller
• Is this quote realistic? Would people
actually see the world like this? What
about you…?
Journal # 62
“Although the world is full of
suffering, it is also full of the
overcoming of it.”- Helen Keller
• What in your life needs to be overcome?
What could you do in you life RIGHT NOW
to follow her teachings?
Journal # 63
“I am only one; but still I am one. I
cannot do everything, but still I
can do something.” – Helen Keller
• What can you do? Is this quote
realistic? What makes this quote
great? What does she mean by this?
Journal # 64
“Past is past and we must live in the
present to survive the future.”
• What about this quote do you
believe? What can you do in your own
life to make this quote true?
Journal # 65
“The best thing about the future is
that it comes only one day at a
time.” –Abraham Lincoln
• What makes this quote seem so
relevant? Is it still relevant today?
Journal # 66
“We cannot let the past cloud our
perception of the future.”
• What can you currently do to
accomplish this quote in your current
life? Would this quote be relevant to
your life? Why/ Why not?
Journal # 67
“I never think about the future. It comes
soon enough.”- Albert Einstein
• Do you believe that Albert Einstein was
correct in this quote? Do you live your life
like this? What could you do to make you
life more like Mr. Einstein's?
Journal # 68
In the future, how we gather,
manage and use information will
determine whether we succeed or
fail.”-Bill Gates
Do you think that this represents your life?
What can you do in your life to think
similarly to Mr. Gates? Explain…
Journal # 69
“ I don’t believe in mathematics.” –
Albert Einstein
Do you believe that this quote is
accurate? Why does this seem
funny/ ironic? Please explain your
answers.
Journal # 70
“Have a heart that never hardens, a
temper that never tires, a touch
that never hurts.”- Charles Dickens
Please explain what you believe this
quote means. Do you believe it? Why
is it significant?
Journal #
“My philosophy has always been to help
women and men feel comfortable and
confident through the clothes they
wear.”-Georgio Armani
Explain your first reaction to this quote.
Read it over and over. Has your reaction
changed? What do you think this quote
means?
Journal #
“You gain strength, experience and
confidence by every experience where
you really stop to look fear in the
face.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
Does this quote apply to your life? How?
What can you do to make it relevant?
Explain an “experience” to me.
Journal #
“Your self-confidence is directly
connected to how much you feel
you are making a difference in your
world.”- Brian Tracy
How are/can you make/ing a difference
in your world? Please explain.
Journal #
“Confidence, like art, never comes
from having all the answers; it
comes from being open to all the
questions.”- Earl Gray Stevens
What do you think this quote means?
How does this affect your life?
Please explain!
Journal #
“Self-confidence is the result of a
successfully survived risk.”
-Jack Gibb
What is a risk that you have had to recently
survive? How has it affected you since?
And, has it caused a greater feeling of
self-confidence?
Journal #
“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die
of having lived.”- Willa Cather
How does this quote initially affect
you? What do you think it means?
What have you learned about Willa
Carter the person?
Journal #
“I no longer have the fear of being
alone.”-Drew Barrymore
What do you think this fear is? Have
you ever felt this fear? How have you
moved past this fear? What was your
first reaction to this quote?
Journal #
“Everyman dies. Not every man
lives.”-from the movie “Braveheart”
What do you think this quote means? Do
you think that it could affect your
life? How?
Journal #
“When you see a rattlesnake poised
to strike, you do not wait until he
has struck before you crush him.”-
Franklin D. Roosevelt
How does this quote effect you? Do
you believe this quote? Please
explain.
Journal #
“A good plan today is better than a
perfect plan tomorrow.”- General
George S. Patton
Do you believe this quote? What makes
this quote significant? Please explain
your answers.
Journal #
“Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger the wind the stronger the
trees.”- William Marriott
What does this quote mean to you? Do you
think that it could possibly affect your
life? How? Would this be a good
philosophy?
Journal #
“The good you do today may be
quickly forgotten, but the impact
of what you do will never
disappear.”-unknown author
What have you done that should not be
forgotten? What could you do that will
never be forgotten? Please explain you
answers.
Journal #
“To be what we are, and to become
what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end of life.”
-Robert Lewis Stevenson
What does this quote symbolize? Does it
mean anything to your life? What can you
learn from this quote? Please explain!
Journal #
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes
out the trees, then names the streets
out of them.”
-Bill Vaughan
What do you think this quote means? Do you
think this is correct? How do you see this
affecting our lives?
Journal #
“All the great things are simple, and
many can be expressed in a single
word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty;
Mercy; Hope.”- Sir Winston Churchill
What do you think the greatest things are?
Do you think the Sir Winston Churchill was
correct? Give examples.
Journal #
The Land of Happy-”Where the Sidewalk Ends”
Have you been to The Land of Happy,
Where everyone’s happy all day,
Where they joke and they sing,
Of the happiest things,
And everything’s jolly and gay?
There’s no one unhappy in Happy,
There’s laughter and smiles galore.
I have been to The Land of Happy-
What a bore!
Journal #
The Search- “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
I went to find the pot of gold
That’s waiting where the rainbow ends.
I searched and searched and searched and searched
And searched and searched, and then-
There it was, deep in the grass,
Under an old and twisty bough.
It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine at last…
What do I search for now?
Journal #
What A Day- “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
What a day.
Oh what a day.
My baby brother ran away
And now my tuba will …
I’m eight years old
And turning grey.
Oh what a day.
Oh what a day.
Journal #
No Difference- “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We’re all the same size
When we turn off the light.
Rich as a sultan,
Poor as a mite,
We’re all worth the same
When we turn off the light.
Red, Black, or Orange,
Yellow or White,
We all look the same
When we turn off the light.
So maybe the way
To make everything right
Is for god to just reach out
And turn out the light!
Journal #
Tree House- “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
A tree house, a free house.
A secret you and me house.
A high up in the leafy branches
Cozy as can be house.
A street house, a neat house,
Be sure and wipe you feet house
Is not my kind house at all-
Let’s go live in a tree house.
Journal #
Early Bird- “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If you’re a bird, be an early early bird-
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.
Journal #
Colors- “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are grayish bluish green,
But I’m told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it’s silver when it’s wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.
