Journal Writing prompts 1-10
August and September 2008
Journal Prompt #1 What was your favorite part of summer? What is your favorite part of starting school?
Journal Prompt #2 Why are laws important to a free society? Is anarchy good/bad? Why? Why is it important to have rules in a classroom? Journal Prompt #3 If I weren’t in class right now I would be… Journal Prompt #4 Create a playlist of your personal top 20 songs. Journal Prompt #5 Using your “top 20” create a poem using only song titles. Journal Prompt #6 Where were you on 9/11/01? What do you remember? Journal Prompt #7 (Juniors only) Puritans were people who… (Sophomores only) Journal Prompt #8 • • (Juniors only) What was your research for your group project on? What did you learn? (Sophomores only) One of the Themes in Oedipus Rex is a quest for identity. Write about your own quest for identity: I am a person who… (1/2 page) Journal Prompt #9 A hero is someone who… (1/2 page) Journal Prompt #10 Review your definition of hero, now pretend that your hero has previously sinned! Are they now disqualified to be a hero?