Journal Topics

  1. Quotation Response: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
  2. I Believe… brainstorming list.
  3. Quotation Response (Marilyn Monroe): Connections/questions based on your experiences.
  4. Belonging: Quotation Response.
  5. Visual Response
  6. Discuss the role emotional courage plays when an individual experiences separation.
  7. What makes someone a coward?

 

 

 

 

  1. Poem Response: “Mother to Son” – What role does hardship play in shaping one’s character?
  2. Visual Response: What does the image suggest about the impact of an individual’s ambition on self and others?
  3. Essential Questions: Choose the ONE you think best connects to “The Paper Menagerie” and explain how the topic is explored in the story. 
  4. Essential Questions: Choose the ONE you think best connects to “On the Rainy River” and explain how the topic is explored in the story.
  5. Masculine Sensitivity: Is it possible for a man to be sensitive and strong? Why or why not?
  6. Epigraph response – A Streetcar Named Desire.
  7. Quote response – Elbert Hubbard “Our desires always disappoint…”
  8. Quote response – Blanche scene 9 – “I don’t want realism…”
  9. Quote response: A Streetcar Named Desire key quotes.
  10. Motif response: A Streetcar Named Desire.
  11. Refer to the end of Scene 4: choose either Stanley, Blanche, or Stella and discuss what he or she is actually thinking, feeling, fearing, hoping…
  12. Quote response: Compare and contrast; connect; significance of one or both.
  13. Prompt planning for SCND.
  14. Endurance – what does it mean to endure? What inherent connotations are associated with this word? What does the text (ATSS) suggest about the capacity of an individual to endure in the face of compelling circumstances?
  15. Exploring ATSS title. Thoughts on the title – why was it chosen? Allusions? Symbolism?
  16. Empathy vs Sympathy
  17. Memories: think of your earliest memory and describe it.
  18. ATSS: …the ways in which an individual’s resilience is shaped by empathy.
  19. Education: reflect on your own education experience.