Please read this before you start writing:
Journal Assignments for the Semester
For each of the following prompts, please write a complete response of no less than 150 words, answering each of the questions in the prompt. Remember the following:
· Type the entire journal assignment, numbering each entry and double-spacing your work
· Include a heading at the top left corner of the page, with name, course and section, date, and journal assignment number
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DO NOT
use Baidu, Google, Wikipedia, or any other Internet site to compose your answers. I am interested in what you think, and how you feel, not what the Internet has to say or how the Internet describes a particular thing. You may use a dictionary to look up a word, but please rely more on your “working” English vocabulary. These assignments are more about getting your ideas and thoughts down on paper rather than writing perfected English entries—that is why journal writing is informal writing.
Journal One:
1. Write about going back to school after winter vacation.
1. Write a thank you note to a friend who gave you onion and garlic-flavored chewing gum.
Journal Two:
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3. Draw an imaginary constellation. Write a story such as ancient people might have told about it.
4. Describe a real made-up dream or nightmare.
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Journal Three:
5. Write about your favorite childhood toy. journal writing prompts
6. Write out the best or the worst day of your life.
Journal Four:
7. Finish this thought: if I could change one thing about myself (if you can't think of anything, you might want to consider telling how you got to be perfect!)
8. If and when I raise children, I'll never...
Journal Five:
9. I have never been more frightened than when...
10. Persuade a friend to give up drugs.
Journal Six:
11. Five years from now, I will be...
12. Write about a day you'd like to forget.
Journal Seven:
13. Invent and describe a new food.
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14. Describe an event that changed your life forever, or make up and describe an event that would change your life forever.
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Journal Nine:
17. Imagine yourself in a different century and describe an average day in your life.
18. Which character from a book would you most like to meet and why?
Journal Ten:
19. Three goals I have set for myself are...
20. What would you do if 300 mice had just gotten out of their cages in a pet shop where you worked?
And these are different homework:
One paragraph exercise: only one paragraph about anything.
Research Homework: do an academic research about any topic so it’s all about finding academic researches. (half – one page)