Category: Other

Tite: #28 Response Journals

Time Needed: 30 Minutes
Room Arrangement: No Change Needed
Materials: Journals, one for each student, pencils, materials that you are using for the response
i.e. poems, story, etc.
Process/Directions: Staple a calendar or a list with several writing prompts into the front of each
students journal. During writing time, students can choose a prompt and write about it. When
studying a time period, show students photographs and have the students respond to the
photograph after a discussion about it.
Example of when I would use this:
After a field trip or other experience
During writing workshop
During free write time
During a history unit, looking at art, photographs, documents, etc.
Responding to a poem
Writing a poem
Drafting a story
Source: Common Knowledge