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30 Day Journal

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students collect articles, political cartoons, photographs and other artifacts relating to a specific traumatic event, such as September 11th. They reflect on their artifacts in written journals.
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Bless Me, Ultima: Dialogue Journals

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read Chapter 1 of the novel "Bless Me, Ultima" and respond to the text. They answer and ask questions and record their impressions of different aspects of the book in a dialogue journal format with a partner. Students...
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Weather Whys- Cloud Watching Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how natural processes change the earth by identifying their local water cycle. Individual students complete a cloud journal over a specific period of time. They observe clouds daily and take photographs of the clouds...
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Reading Response Journal

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading response worksheet, students complete the journal activity including the title, author, number of pages, their opinion about the book, and their favorite part of the book. Students also draw a picture of their favorite part.
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Journal Assignment Directions

For Students 9th - 10th
In this journalism analysis activity, students choose and editorial article and analyze the content. Students will write articles with a minimum of 350 words.
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Group Journal

For Students 6th - 12th
In this literature circle worksheet, the student journaling in the group is provided an area to sketch scenes from a passage they've read prior to meeting with their group. Students are also asked to provide an explanation of the scenes...
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Activity Three: Diary of a Driver

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore and document historic elements of Horatio's journey by creating a fictitious journal in Jackson's voice.
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Practical Writing in the Intermediate Grades

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars discuss lists of interesting topics on which to write. They explore those things that interest them, excite them and express themselves freely. They organize the value of their own thoughts and use their individual...
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Summer Goals

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this journal worksheet, students identify things they plan to continue practicing throughout the summer months. Students write these summer goals on the given form.
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Details

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write journals, newspapers, and letters with details to enhance their main points. In this details lesson plan, 3rd graders retell an incident with details, create newspaper articles with details, and write letters with...
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Getting Ready to Become an Adult - Part One

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the book Ta-Na-e-ka and identify the elements of plot in the story. In this plot lesson plan, students also create a journal response to the story.
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Using Details From the Text To Identify Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students word in groups to come up with cause and effect situations based on texts they are reading. In this cause and effect lesson plan, students record these in their literary response journals.
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Writing with Colorful Adjectives

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use colorful adjectives when using their response journals responding to the book The Sign of the Beaver. In this adjectives lesson plan, students also correct a paragraph that has 10 incorrect adjective forms.
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Choosing the Right Strategy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders record words in their word journal that were difficult to decode from a magazine or newspaper article. In this words lesson plan, 4th graders also write down what strategy they used to decode it.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Giggle, Giggle, Quack

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students evaluate tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary lesson, students read Giggle, Giggle, Quack and determine the meaning of vocabulary words discovered in the story. Students record their learning in a word journal.
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Who Am I?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners create a graphic timeline depicting who they are, where they've been and where they think they are going in their lives. They analyze and reflect upon the important events of their lives, and then use this as a starting point...
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September 12 Journal Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write journal entries reflecting on their feelings about the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Creative Writing/Historical Journals

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students research primary and secondary sources to find information about their ancestors. They write a series of journal entries, from the perspective of one of their ancestors, on what life was like in that given time period.
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Emotions Journal

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this fill in the blank worksheet, students complete journal assignments as they relate to emotions. The emotions covered in the journal include: happy, lonely, shy, jealous, sad, proud, angry, nervous, scared, excited.
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Job Journals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compare the differences between job varieties. In this career exploration lesson, students evaluate different aspects of jobs and then write a diary entry as if they were the real employee.
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A Colony is Born : Lesson 5 - Dear Mem

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Discover colonies! Young historians will listen to a primary source journal entry read aloud with a backdrop of wave sounds. They discuss the entry, add historical facts to a chart and personal insights to another. Then they listen to...
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Social Studies: Highway Accidents

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the crash of a bus carrying an Ohio baseball team to a tournament at a site where 82 other accidents had occured previously. They interview local police and insurance agents about sites in their own locales where...
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Compare Coverage of Brown v. Board Ruling

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Young journalists analyze how The Topeka State Journal, the Jackson Daily News, and The Providence Journal reported on the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education. Scholars scrutinize the headlines, photographs,...
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A Kindness Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children record instances when they witness kindness on paper flowers. The flowers are posted on a class tree. Children may also journal and add art to the tree. This lovely idea can be utilized during any part or throughout the entire...

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