Journal Gems

For one of my second year classes, we have the students write simple diary entries twice a week. Then they give them to me, I check them, write responses and smother than with stickers that I have been squirreling away since my childhood in a Scrooge-like fashion (seriously, some of these Sandylion stickers are probably older than they are).

Our first gem of the day is written by one of my favorite students. He really tries to write interesting tidbits in his diary instead of filling it up with mundane information about the weather and how he does nothing on the weekend besides sleep. A short excerpt from his journal today which touched upon the topic of foreign travel:

I want to travel to France. Because I want to see my eyes.

I have several questions about this one.

Our second gem of the day is written by another one of my favorites, a girl whose birthday just recently passed. She writes of her cousins and how they took her shopping to shower her with belated birthday gifts:

I went shooping with my cousins. My cousins are twenty two years old and ninety years old.

Whoa.

And another Sedaris travel story to keep you entertained in the meanwhile.

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Published:
6.2.08 / 2pm
Category:
classroom antics, amusing incidents, what i call life