Journal Exercises We will be doing a number of exercises that will serve as skillbuilding for a variety reasons In order to do well on these exercises you must Keep all the exercises in a notebook in the classroom For this first one you will write it twice in class and then again when ID: 555122
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Journal Exercises
We will be doing a number of exercises that will serve as skill-building for a variety reasons. In order to do well on these exercises, you must:
Keep all the exercises in a notebook in the classroom. For this first one, you will write it twice (in class – and then again when you transfer it to the notebook you will purchase and keep in the classroom); notice how you edit as you transfer this first journal entry into the notebook!
Date and number each exercise at the top of your page- Answer each question in three to five well-crafted sentences.
Use a pen. Write neatly
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Journal Prompts #1, 2
Lyrical: expressing the writer’s emotion in an imaginative and beautiful way.
1. PROMPT
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“
Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”
– Barbara
Kingsolver, “High Tide in Tucson.”
Use the Word “antidote” in a lyrical sentence AND make a claim
: By using the word antidote, what does the author imply about the inability to feel for another?
2. PROMPT:
Free-write
: If we changed the word antidote to gift, what effect would it have on the meaning of the sentence?Slide4
Journal Prompts #3 & 4
3. Prompt One (four to six lines):
4. Creative Prompt: Wiesel also relies on spare syntax, followed by imagery punctuated with alliteration. Construct your own short, direct sentence, describing something mournful or shocking or surprising. Follow this with imagery and a poetic device of your own.