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منهج الانجليزى ثانوية عامة / معكم الاستاذ / جرجس حنا هارون /Unit 1: (Writers and stories) Lesson: 1

Definition

Writing to learn

How to do a classroom Journal
Benefits and negative effects

Classroom Journals

Mr. / Girgis

Definition:

Journal is an incredibly flexible instructional tool, useful across the entire curriculum. While often used as a class startup activity, it is used primarily to give students an opportunity to speculate on paper, confident that their ideas, observations, emotions, and writing will be accepted without criticism.

Writing to learn:

Journal writing is an incredibly flexible instructional tool, useful across the entire curriculum. While often used as a class startup activity, it is used primarily to give students an opportunity to speculate on paper, confident that their ideas, observations, emotions, and writing will be accepted without criticism.

Writing to learn is based on the assumption that students’ thoughts and understanding can grow and clarify through the process of writing. And growth in thought and understanding can certainly happen in the foreign language classroom.

How to do a classroom Journal:

1. Ask students to buy a notebook they can easily carry around with them. Inspiration for a journal entry might come to them at any time, and they are more likely towrite in their journal outside of class if the journal is easy for them to carry around wherever they go.

2. The language of the journal could be English, but it could also be their first language (L1). Or it could be a mixture of both. For advanced

students, it makes sense to have them use the target language.

For beginners, a journal in their native language might be a place where they can express their feelings without having to worry about remembering difficult grammar or vocabulary.

3. Collect and read the journals on a regular basis—but do not correct. If you feel you should respond, then write about something you liked.

Remember that “in a language class,in the end, everything boils down to the same question: Can you use language in ways that allow you to

convey whatever your thoughts are?

… Can you express something about yourself, your ideas, your

curiosities, and questions?”

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4. Ask students to leave a blank page between entries for room to

comment later. Class time could be devoted to having students

read and reread entries and respond to what they have written.

In my experience, students really enjoy having a chance to

comment on their own growth and development in the journal.

5. Encourage students to write about a wide variety of topics, but the topics should always, at least in some way, connect with the class.

In his book, Engaging Ideas, John Bean suggests that one way to

begin class is to ask students to discuss a question that they wrote

about the night before in their journals. Such a question might be

“What confused you about today’s reading or class?”

6. Keep a journal along with your students. Ask your students to write during class time, and write along with them. Writing with your

students tells them that the teacher takes the idea of journals seriously, and so should they.

Keeping a journal along with your students also helps you see how much time is needed to complete a task, helps you be more reasonable with what you expect, and gives you a clue as

to how interesting the prompts are that you give to your students.

7. Look for ways to use the journal during class time. Even if you can find only five minutes per week of class time, that time could be used for journal writing.

Look for ways to connect the journal with what you consider important in the class. In the final section of this paper, I suggest specific journal writing activities.

The negative effects:

Use of journals does have two possible downsides,including:

1. The potential for the teacher to hurt students' feelings with criticism.

Remedy: Offer constructive criticism rather than a critique.

2. The loss of instructional time needed to teach course material.

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The benefits:

Sort out experiences, solve problems and consider

varying perspectives.

Examine relationships with others and the world.

Reflect on personal values, goals, and ideals.

Summarize ideas, experience, and opinions

before and after instruction.

Witness his academic and personal growth

by reading past entries.

Remedy:

Instructional time can be conserved by simply limiting journal writing

to five or ten minutes a period.

Another approach to conserving time, however, is to assign journal topics relating to the instructional topic of the day.

For example, you could ask students to write a definition of a concept at the beginning of the period and at the end of the period to describe

how their concept had changed.

Journals Topics:

Find over a hundred journal topics in these four lists:

1-Self Understanding and Clarifying Thoughts and Positions Topics

dealing with various aspects of "who I am, why I'm that way, what I

value, and what I believe."

2-Interpersonal Relationships Topics dealing with "what I want in a

friend, who are my friends, what I expect of friends, and how I relate

to family members, teachers, and other significant people in my life."

3-Speculation and viewing from a different perspective:

Topics causing the writer to predict or see things from an unusual

perspective. These may be highly creative such as "describe the

events of yesterday from the perspective of your hair."

4-Academic Journal Topics for the Beginning,Middle and End of a

Lesson. Generic starters in this list should make writing journal

topics a cinch.

Conclusion:

Students certainly could keep electronic journals in the form of

a blog or a wiki, or through email. However, paper-based

notebooks offer a number of attractive features.

A paper journal does not require electricity or an Internet

connection.

A paper journal is lighter and more portable than most computers.

And while paper journals can be destroyed in rain or fire, people

never lose an entry due to a computer virus or hard drive failure.

Paper-based journals also offer an additional advantage:

they bring mind and body closer together.

Certainly journals will not work for everyone,but, for many

students and teachers, journals offer an opportunity to find

a personal connection with the course material.


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