Good Morning Everyone!
I apologize for not sending a reminder text for the journal entries to be due last night. Hopefully you remembered to get them in on time.
This is a short week (4 days, due to Memorial Day weekend). You will only be doing journal entries for Monday through Thursday. Friday this week we are off. EXCEPT FOR SENIORS, you will still be turning in the assignments on Sunday. SENIORS, your journal entries will be due by MIDNIGHT FRIDAY, so that I can make sure that I get everything situated for your grades.
SENIORS: THIS IS IT! YOUR LAST FOUR DAYS WITH ME! YOUR LAST FOUR DAYS AT FORDSON! IT WAS NICE TO SEE YOU DURING THE DRIVE THRU ON SATURDAY!
WEEKLY CHECK IN: ON WEDNESDAY, send me an email letting me know you’re checking in. Please compose the email correctly:
- Subject line: Check in 5-20-2020
- Greeting: Dear Ms. Ferris,
- Paragraph/sentence letting me know you’re checking in and anything else you wanted to say.
- Closing (Sincerely,)
- Your Name (first and last)
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Some of you are doing a great job following the directions given for your journal entries each week. Some of you think that if you just put something on paper, that’s going to work (it’s not). Here is your assignment for the week is as follows (the assignments are due by midnight Sunday, May 24).
For this week:
- You are going to start a new Google doc for the journal entries beginning with today’s date (May 18). (All of the entries that we have done the past month will be stored on your Google drive, but you’re going to start fresh with this one).
- Click on the top left where it says Untitled Document. Click on that one time and change it to “Last Name First Name ID Journal Entries for the Week of May 18”. (This is the only acceptable title. Anything else will not be accepted).
- In the document itself, at the top left, where the cursor is (not in the header), you are going to type: 18-5-2020 or 18 May 2020.
- Press enter once.
- You will begin your journal entry. Begin paragraphs with a tab, and then a capital letter. Use complete sentences, and proper punctuation. Don’t forget that you’re writing about your day, your thoughts, what you went through for the day. Make sure you provide details. I read them and make comments; I ask questions. If I think that you just threw words on paper just to get the assignment done, and didn’t think it through, the assignment is not complete. There is always something to write about. Even though our days are repetitive, there is always something that you can write about that makes it different from the day before.
- CHECK YOUR SPELLING AND PROOFREAD YOUR WORK!! (Tools menu – Spelling & Grammar – Spelling and Grammar Check)
- Put your name and ID number in the footer on the left side (Insert menu- Headers & Footers – Footer).
- Highlight the date.
- Click on Format menu – Paragraph Styles – Heading 1 – Apply ‘Heading 1’
- Click at the end of your entry (after the last word/punctuation mark). Press enter once. Click on Insert menu – Break – Page Break.
- Your new page will be the entry for the next day (19-5-2020).
- Start with step 3 for each of the journal entries for the week. You just don’t need to do the footer after the first day because it will be included on each page for the week.
You will do this for each journal entry. By midnight Sunday, you will be submitting a 5 page document (each page is a journal entry for the week). You will be graded on all of these numbered items.
IF YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS FOR JOURNAL ENTRIES, you can use any of the following topics.
- You can write about what you did all day. Tell me, in detail, what your day was like, from the time that you woke up until the time you went to bed. Include all details. If you ate breakfast, for example, tell me what you ate, if you prepared it, did you wash the dishes afterwards, etc.
- You can write about your feelings throughout the day.
- Describe your favorite things about yourself. What makes you unique?
- Do you think students should receive grades for school work done at home since attending actual school has been canceled? Why or why not?
- Make a goal in the morning and reflect back on it at night. Write about whether you accomplished the goal, and if so, what helped you. If you didn’t accomplish your goal, what kept you from doing so. Reflect on what you could do differently next time.
- Write about a time when you thought a situation was worse than it really was.
- Is it easier to learn online or in the classroom? Write to support your position and why the other side isn’t easier.
- Who faces more pressure: boys or girls? Explain both sides.
- What is the worst chore to have? Why?
