1. Unit 4 Coming of Age: Relationships
Journals

2. Unit 4 Journal # 1
What is writing?
Why do we write, why is it a “thing” in society?

3. Unit 4 Journal # 1 Continued
Write about anger/hostility without using the words anger/hostility or its synonyms. Must be school appropriate.

4. Unit 4 Journal # 2 Writing Prompt
Write about hands, someone's hands
Try to keep writing until the timer rings
Be prepared to share

5. Unit 4 Journal # 3: Rooms
Write about the details of a room from your childhood or youth.

6. Unit 4 Journal # 4: The Dog Ate My Homework
In an ironic twist, a dog really ate your homework. When you try to explain this to your teacher she says, “Come on, you can do better than that excuse.” Instead of arguing, you take that as a challenge and come up with an elaborate story as to what happened to your homework. Let us hear it.

7. Unit 4 Journal # 5
Make a story from one or all of the pictures

9. Unit 4 Journal # 6
Write about your grandfather, or the old man in the picture.
Stu Beattie served 26 years and is a die hard Royal Marines man through and through…

10. Unit 4 Journal # 7
Make a quick list of household items (things). Pick one of the household items and imbue it with special powers. Write a narrative about it.

11. Unit 4 Journal # 8 The title of your story is “The Baby Dragon”
Now write the story that fits with that title
Be creative (doesn’t have to be about an actual dragon)

12. Unit 4 Journal # 9
Select an object that you own, either from your bag, pockets, locker, or room, and write from the prospective/POV of that object (use “I”).

13. Unit 4 Journal # 10
Pick a word/label from the list of emotions—make it your title.
Write about it without using the word.

14. Unit 4 Journal # 11 Write a story/narrative that ends with this line:
“…And if wishes were horses we’d all be eating steaks!”

15. Unit 4 Journal # 12
Imagine you are 75 years old.
Use your imagination and tell us about your life.

16. Unit 4 Journal # 13: Pushing yourself to the limits of your ability
The expressions on the athletes’ faces
What is going through their minds
How the music relate to the video
Write About…

17. Unit 4 Journal # 14
If you were somehow limited to 20 words, the only 20 words you would be able to say for the rest of your life, what would those words be?
Make a list of the last 20 words you can say for the rest of your life.

18. Unit 4 Journal # 15
Draw a picture of what a good writer looks like, or when a writer is writing.