In this lesson, writers will create a detailed journal entry from the point of view of a character who never actually existed. The journal entry will be for a day in history that the writer has researched and found interesting...

Contains plans for lessons that ask learners to write journal entries about texts they have read by responding to open-ended questions. The book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater is used as an example. In addition to objectives...

Arranged by each quarter of the school year, 180 journal prompts are provided for students. These prompts are excerpted from the PowerPoint series Journal Jumpstarts.

Nurse Myra Grimsley (Bennett) was a nurse in Britain throughout World War I. She came to Newfoundland in 1921 as a volunteer and worked there for over 50 years. She was the only source of medical aid to people living along a...

People felt the Lincoln assassination in deeply personal ways. Examine the journal entries and letters from those who were directly affected by his death and worried about the leadership of Andrew Johnson. Included are entries by a free...

The de Grummond Children's Literature Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the manuscript collection located at the University of Southern Mississippi. Includes illustrations, manuscripts, letters, photographs,...

Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...

This site from Fordham University provides a look into the thoughts of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama by examining his journal entries during his voyage to India.

Transcription of an account written by Robert Travis in a letter or journal entry describing his adventures as part of the 4th U.S. Infantry during the Spanish-American War.

Students read the book The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along by Mahlon Hoagland to examine the sixteen patterns of life presented in the book. As students study...

Site provides specific information about the Expedition through South Dakota. Biographies and journal entries from Lewis and Clark are included.

This instructional activity focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Students learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal...

After a study of the Creek War, students will explore perspectives of families on both sides of the war. Students will compose journal entries from a selected social class of the era to develop and exhibit an understanding and...

This ReadWriteThink lesson features an opportunity for students to respond to literature through writing journals about "Corduroy," by Don Freeman. This idea could be used with other books as well.

In this lesson plan, students will engage in the technology, social studies, and language arts standards as students engage in reading by Octavia Butler's book entitled Kindred. Students will research tslavery. Students will keep a...