Journals and Homeworks for Periods 7 and 8

Journal 1: What makes you happy?
HW1: Are you involved in helping people?
J2: What does ambition mean?
HW2: Would you want to know the future?
J3: What is the most difficult decision you ever made?
HW3: Who are your major influences?
J4: What is sanity?
HW4: Agree AND Disagree: Macbeth is insane.
J5: Free Writing
HW5: Free Writing
J6: Who is in control of your life?
HW6: Describe a time you talked yourself into something.
J7: Describe a time you felt guilty.
HW7: What lessons does Macbeth teach?
J8: Does manhood = violence?
HW8: Why is Macbeth a tragedy?
J9: Why did Macbeth fail?
HW9: Does power corrupt people?
J10: Free Writing
HW10: Free Writing
J11: What is prejudice?
HW11: Have you ever been prejudiced against another?
J12: Why isn't the defendant's identity revealed?
HW12: Which juror is the MOST prejudiced? Explain.
J13: How many forms of prejudice exist?
HW13: Can prejudice be fought?
J14: Does the end of Twelve Angry Men resolve the prejudices?
HW14: Is there life on other planets?
J15: Free Writing
HW15: Free Writing
J16: YOUR OPINION: Is the defendant guilty or innocent?
HW16: Do you prefer the play or the movie?
J17: Free Writing
HW17: Free Writing
J18: Do you have school spirit?
HW18: What is personal responsibility?
J19: What's the best piece of advice you ever received?
HW19: What business appeals to you?
J20: Free Writing
HW20: Free Writing
J21: Write your own recommendation
HW21: Where will you be in five years?
J22: Free Writing
HW22: Free Writing
J23: Which form of pollution is worst?
HW23: Is Global Warming really a threat?
J24: Evaluate your performance in school
HW24: How can you improve on last marking period?
J25: Free Writing
HW25: Free Writing
J26: What is the American dream?
HW26: Is it acceptable to cheat in order to achieve your goals?
J27: Predict the earth's future 100 years from now.
HW27: Does a positive outcome make a lie acceptable?
J28: At which age do we start to break away from our parents?
HW28: When is technology harmful?
J29: What would you say to an alien?
HW29: How important are memories?
J30: Free Writing
HW30: Free Writing
J31: Do you wish you could be rich?
HW31: List the problems in Willie's life.
J32: Are you always the same?
HW32: What does being well-liked mean to Willie?
J33: Have you ever missed an opportunity?
HW33: What does "the woman" represent to Willie?
J34: Free Writing
HW34: Fre Writing
J35: Describe a time when your hopes were defeated.
HW35: Why is Will suddenly happy?
J36: Why do things sometimes turn out worse than expected?
HW36: How is Willy a metaphor for ambition?
J37: Free Writing
HW37: Free Writing
J38: What is the major conflict of the Loman family?
HW38: Describe the characters of Willy, Biff and Happy.
J39: What are the themes in your life?
HW39: Which of the three plays did youlike best?
J40: What are the settings of your life?
HW40: How are the setting of D of a S and TAM similar?
J41: Free Writing
HW41: Free Writing
J42: What is your favorite music and why?
HW42: Do you have a Thanksgiving tradition?
J43: Complete the thought: When I'm angry__________
HW43: Have you ever had a teacher like Miss Bessie?
HW44: In what way are Andy and Red friends?
J45: How does the movie make you feel positive about the inmates? HW45: How does "redemption" play out at the end?
J46: Free Writing
HW46: Free Writing
J47: Does Shawshank remind you of any other work we've read?
HW47: Which literary elements are used in Shawshank?
J48: Give an example of irony.
HW48: Who is your favorite literary character?
J49: Do you have an unforgettable friend or relative?
HW49: Describe the best place you have ever visited.
J50: Do you like winter?
HW50: Which part of essay writing do you enjoy?
J51: Free Writng HW51: Free Writing
J52: Why is there no "perfect crime"?
Hw52: Which "unsolved mysteries" trouble you the most?
J53: Free Writing
HW53: Free Writing
J54: What are your holiday plans?
HW54: What are your New Year's resolutions?
J55: How was your break?
HW55: If you could play any musical instrument what would you play?
J56: Which skills have you worked on this term?
HW56: Which skill is MOST important in life?
J57: Who is more important: The Individual or Society
HW57: Which new facts have you learned from the Listening Passage?
J58: Free Writing
HW58: Free Writing
J59: Do you like surprises?
HW59: Is our world a Utopia?