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Journal Entry Week 4 Leadership is........I think a great leader should be.............If I could be for a day I woul

__Journal Entry Week 5 Upload Picture for Preservation Project-Write about why this place is meaningful to you.__

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__Journal Entry Week October 15-19__

__Monday:__ __“__[|Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure **suspense**.]__”__

__Tuesday: "__ "Suspense is worst than disappointment" Robert Burns

Wednesday- "People, let me tell you about my best friend........"

Thursday- My best friend says I'm.....

Monday: "Whatever you do, don't open that door!" What's behind the door?
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Wednesday: "Trapped!" -"as a succession of loud and shrill screams burst suddenly from the throat of the chained form." YIKES!!! What holds you captive?( Captivity can be emotional, physical, or mental?)

Thursday: "I wish I may, I wish I might, I wish....."

Friday:Free Write!

__Journal Entry Week 8 October 20, 2011 National Writing Day __

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__Journal Entry Week 10 Upload Picture for Presevation Project-Write about why this place is meaningful to you.__

__Journal Entry Week 11 Talk About It__

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__Journal Entry 1 2011 Upload a snowy picture of your home-Write about why this is a special "look" for your Southern place!__

__Journal Entry 2 2011 After reading "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" hopefully you have thought about what you cherish most. You may treasure more than one thing. Make a list of two to four things you cherish and write about them. Are they tangible or intangible? Has it been a treasure of yours for a long time or a short time? Why are these things important to you?__

__Journal Entry 3 2011 Respond to the following, "If money wasn't an issue, I would have an operation to change something I don't like about myself." Be honest, what do you not like about yourself, your nose, height, smile? Why do you think that plastic surgery is becoming more popular with adolescents? Do you agree or disagree that a you should be able to have corrective surgeries as a teen?__

__Journal Entry 4 2011 After debating last week and being allowed to express yourself freely, you should have an opinion about our 1st Amendment. Read the following editorial about censorship and respond with your opinion about whether //Huckleberry Finn// should be "sanitizied" or left as written by Mark Twain. I know you have not read this book, but you have read //To Kill A Mockingbird// and similar language was used.[|Huckleberry Finn censored]__

__Journal Entry 5- 2015 Super Bowl-Approximately 98.7 million Americans watched the 2009 Super Bowl making it the largest viewed tv event ever. About 17.7 million youth (under 21) were among the viewers.__ __The number 1 most liked and most recalled commercial was a Budweiser Clysdale competing with a Dalmation in a fetch contest. Anheuser-Busch produced the 3 most recallled ads last year and took the title of "Top Advertiser" with more commercial time than any other company.__ __Questions: Did you watch the Super Bowl and which did you pay more attention to, the game or the commercials?__ __Your most favorite commercial was___. The product was___and the techniques used to sell the product were___. Your least favorite commercial was___. The product wasand the techniques used to sell the product were___. Do you think advertisers have any responsibility to the youth of America when selling their product? Did you find any advertisment among the Super Bowl ads offensive? Why?

Journal Entry 6- 2015 Poetry has been described as "the universal language", "the doorway to the soul" and "as a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight." Define poetry in your terms. What do you think of poetry? Do you have a favorite poet, a favorite poem? Make a list of poems that you know. Are you looking forward to this study on poetry?

Journal Entry 7 20010 Read the following poems and discuss their meaning. What point do you think John Donne was trying to make in "No Man is an Island" Do you think his point is relevant today? Pastor No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. //First They Came for the Jews//, attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller: > First they came for the Jews > and I did not speak out > because I was not a Jew. > > Then they came for the Communist > > ====and I did not speak out==== > because I was not a Communist. > > Then they came for the trade unionists > and I did not speak out > because I was not a trade unionist. > > Then they came for me > and there was no one left to speak out for me.
 * =No man is an island=
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Journal Entry 8 2011-//Stopping By the Woods// by Robert Frost contains one of the most famous couplets ever written. Why do you think these words have resonated with so many? Is this poem just about someone who hestitated in the woods or can this poem speak to a larger theme that we can relate to and apply to our life? Do you have "miles to go before you sleep?" ( appropriate question to ask the first morning after day-light savings went into effect!)

=Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening= Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.



Journal Entry 10: "If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always gotten." What do you think this quote means. As you begin thinking about summer and high school, do you think this quote has any relevance for your life?

Journal Entry 11: During the week of "Celebrating Writing" we should focus on the power of words. Markus Zusak certainly built his thought provokoking novel, //Book Thief//, around this theme. One of the most powerful words I know is hope. What do you hope for and how can hope change a situation? What powerful words do you know? What criteria do you use to qualify a word as powerful? Do you think words can change the world?

Journal Entry 12: What is a stereotype? How did sterotypes contribute to the dehumanization process that happened in Liesel's world? Do any of these sterotypes exist today?What other sterotypes exist today?

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Journal Entry 14: You have just been awakened in the middle of the night to be taken away to_(fill in the blank-concentration camp, outer space, deserted island.) You are allowed to take only one small suitcase with you. Explain what you would pack and WHY you selected each item.

Journal Entry 15: As you complete your last year of Middle School and look forward to new beginnings in Upper School, read some advice from Dr. Seuss: "Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't."

"And when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done." How can you Un-slump yourself? Do you expect some bumps in the road ahead? What's your plan for handling problems with school, problems with friends, and/or problems with parents?

Journal Entry-January 23, 2013 Respond to the following quote by Helen Keller: "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievements . Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

Journal Entry-February 4, 2013 Have you ever stood up for something that wasn't popular with everyone else? Explain the circumstances and elaborate on your reasoning. If you have not, do you envision any circumstance where you would?

Journal Entry-April 16, 2013 >> || >> =====A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.===== >> >> =====This is her story of giving gratitude.===== >> >> =====A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…. a very dangerous proposition.===== >> =====...===== >> =====One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.===== >> >> =====They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.===== >> >> =====When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.===== >> >> =====The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.===== >> >> =====May you be so fortunate …===== >> >> =====To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.===== >> >> =====And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.=====