English9+Journal+topics

**Back to English 9**
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Journals will be marked with this rubric. Each journal should be between five and eight sentences and show a thoughtful response. Feel free to return to a journal response you wrote earlier and add to it.===

Thursday, September 27 Write about an incident or person in Teenage Wasteland that is familiar to you or to someone you know. What solutions have been tried? What has made a **//difference for the better//** in the situation?

Tuesday, September 25 We have had our first test, this time on the Short Story. Write about what you did to prepare for this test and how you think you did. Would you change anything? If so, what would that be? Have you had other tests in high school this week? How do you think you've done on those??

Friday, September 21, 2007 After reading “Thank you, M’am” by Langston Hughes:

//Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones told Roger, “Everybody’s got something in common.” What does she mean by that? What do you think you have in common with other people?//