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Pritchard, Ruie Jane – English Journal, 1993
Describes a method of including students into a community of readers through which they are encouraged to respond individually to literary texts. Shows how writing prompts can be used in the classroom to foster reader response and the integrity of each reader's interpretation of a text. (HB)
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Reader Response, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
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Ford, Brian W. – English Journal, 1991
Criticizes teaching formal, impersonal writing and argues for teaching that encourages students to write about what they know and love as they discover who they are and why words matter. (PRA)
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Personal Writing, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Cobine, Gary R. – 1996
This digest discusses expressive writing and the expressive mode, which is seen as a recurring stage in a writer's process of writing. The digest suggests that by structuring expressive writing activities and correlating them with particular stages of the writing process, a teacher can draw the natural linguistic activity out of a student. The…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Free Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing
Kruger, Wendy – Communication: Journalism Education Today, 1995
Offers a day-by-day capsule summary calendar for a 30-day unit on law and ethics in a journalism class. Lists 24 journal-entry discussion topics. (SR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Journal Writing
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Mitchell, Diana – English Journal, 1996
Provides language arts teachers with specific techniques to help content-area teachers get more writing into their classrooms. Suggests that some of these techniques might be helpful to language arts teachers themselves, especially in getting students to think about learning. (TB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Fiction, Interviews, Journal Writing
Soderquist, Alisa – 2002
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick," this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that the novel is grounded in facts that Melville acquired in his own experiences at sea; New England was the center of a prospering whaling industry in the 19th century; and journal keeping was not uncommon among 19th-century…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, English Instruction, Journal Writing
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DeCoster, Patricia A. – Science Teacher, 1991
Describes a high school biology assignment that had students read a self-selected book where the main character experiences nature and is changed by it. Evaluation was based on journal entries and a formal paper. Seventy percent of the students indicated they greatly enjoyed the assignment. (PR)
Descriptors: Biology, Instructional Materials, Journal Writing, Reading Assignments
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Weir, Kathleen – English Journal, 1991
Shares the attempts of one teacher to structure a program that allows students to learn and grow as a community of readers and writers through the use of a response-centered curriculum. (MG)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Journal Writing, Reading Writing Relationship, Responsibility
Wills, Howard – 1993
Writing activities can be used to cultivate students' enthusiasm for learning. This book shows teachers how to introduce their students to the benefits of writing in a variety of subjects including math, language arts, science, social studies, and art. Each chapter in the book includes an observation that allows readers to enter a classroom and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Journal Writing, Letters (Correspondence), Mathematics Instruction
Lemberger, Beth – 2002
Based on "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo" by Zlata Filipovic, this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that historical drama, like other historical fiction, is rooted in history but contains imaginary elements as well; and that the author describes in her diary what it was like to be a teenager in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Diaries, Drama, English Instruction
Allen, Sheilah – 1987
Recent surveys on writing in secondary school science classes indicate that a variety of modes of writing are incorporated for different purposes. The critical essay, the research report, and term paper assignments still demonstrate their usefulness as promoters of learning science. The study guide, another standard teaching tool, also continues…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Creative Writing, Foreign Countries, Journal Writing
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Hoover, Linda A. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1994
Study analyzed the writing assignments of two secondary preservice teachers involved in a university teacher education practicum designed to promote reflective thinking. Found that written assignments were more useful in making participants' cognitive processes explicit than in their actively constructing knowledge about teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Practicums
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Steffens, Henry – Social Studies, 1991
Recommends using informal writing exercises to increase students' involvement in large survey history courses. Explains several activities in which undergraduates collect their thoughts on particular lecture topics. Also suggests that students keep journals to accompany reading assignments. Argues that journal writing enlivens the material and…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Curriculum, Higher Education, History Instruction