The students will randomly respond to two different journal writings the next day in school. The students do not know who is responding to their writing until they get their journal back. Having a sense of secrecy about it and knowing that a classmate will be reading and responding to their writing, will hopefully bring more excitement to this activity. I hope the students learn that whenever they write, they are writing for an audience, and the teacher is not always the audience.
I hope this will inspire them to be more careful with their spelling, more careful with their handwriting, and more careful with their topics.
1. Write a short note to the teacher you had last year. Let her know how you�re doing in your new grade � so far.
2. What is one mistake you have made in your life that you would like to �take back�? - click here for Mr. Aten's example
3. What do you think is the hardest part of being a teacher?
4. If you could invite any person from the past to spend a Saturday morning with you � and this person would be your age � whom would you choose? Why? - click here for Mr. Aten's example
5. If you could get rid of one type of prejudice in the world, which would you choose and explain why?
6. List and describe five good qualities about yourself.