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Journaling

1. Use a small looseleaf notebook/ or blank sketchbook
2. Use the journal for Class Instruction (what you've learned) or Personal experiences
3. Date each entry
4. Write more than a few sentences
5. Regular writing, 10-15 minutes at the end of each session.
6. Draw or sketch visual ideas, supplement your writing with illustrations
7. Write at different times of the day and night -- /optional/
8. Spotcheck and say nice things(people you talked to, groups you participated in, good things you did that day)
9. Make regular use in class (refer to journal for ideas or to answer questions, write down websites you've visited or ideas you have for your own site or the group's website)

1. To participate in discussions
2. To summarize lessons/ideas
3. To refocus lost class
4. To solve problems
5. To respond to excersizes
6. To generate new ideas
7. To let off steam
8. To set priorities/schedules
9. To evaluate personal academic progress
10. To "free write" and "brainstorm"
11. To be a record of growth
12. To learn to like to write/draw

1. Write down everything that is within six feet of you
2. Close your eyes and listen. Describe everything you hear
3. Pick a current issue in the news. Describe your positions on the issue
4. Pick a recent personal experience. Describe it. Analyze your feelings about it, answering the question, "Why do I feel this way?"
5. Express something that has been bothering you. Try to discover why it is bothering you. Propose a solution.
6. Describe a place. Discuss the feelings associated with it. Tell an event that happened there.
7. Copy a saying or short passage from someone else's writing (story, book, poem, essay). Tell what it means to you, how you feel about it, and why.
8. Explain what you learned about yourself in your job
9. Write about the first time you returned home after leaving.
10. Describe a process you often go through: brushing teeth, taking the bus to school, eating in the cafeteria.
11. Describe your most memorable celebration experience--a birthday, holiday, wedding, graduation.
12. Close you eyes and feel your surroundings. Describe everything you feel.
13. Write down the lyrics of your favorite song; explain what they mean.
14. Describe something you use all the time (a pen, a fork, the sidewalk) and describe it from a new perspective
15. Write a poem.
16. Write a character sketch of someone you are close to and admire. Describe their appearance, their mannerisms, their speech. Tell a story about them.
17. Write a character sketch of someone who aggravates you or of someone who makes you angry.
18. Dream a little. Describe what kind of life you will have ten years from now.
19. Walk down memory lane. Tell stories of your past experience. Describe people you once knew. Describe places you've been. Tell how you used to do something.